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Great video, and an impressive aircraft.

Just a quick aside. I used to work with a young Romanian woman. Very intelligent. Her and her husband were lawyers back home, came to Canada where both earned a law degree and were practicing lawyers. As I said, very smart and well to do. Anyways, one day we were talking about Romania and its...

Fixed that for you.

The military Denison family and the Armoury have one 'n' in their name. I'm not sure what member of the five generations of the Denison family the armoury was named after, although there are many candidates. One, Septimus Julius Augustus Denison, commanded the RCR early in the 20th century and...

Brian, With the greatest respect, but... Huh? Dan. PS: Nice photo.

Denison Armoury is where I first learned to step off with my left foot with the GGHG cadets. (It was also where I learned to swear and drink coffee.) At the time it was also home to 1 Toronto Service Battalion. 2 Toronto Service Battalion was at Moss Park. Does anyone know what happened to the...

Speaking of former armouries, Toronto had units parading everywhere during the 50's. I've attached a pdf list of the locations of all the Militia units in Toronto which I took from the 1959 Army mailing list. Notice that Falaise Armoury was originally next door to Fort York Armoury on Fleet...

Wolf, Thanks for the photos and info. Always glad for details from the old Army (Harrumph!). Quick question: That doesn't look like Moss Park Armoury to me. Is it? Cheers, Dan.

Any chance of you scanning and posting those? Cheers, Dan.

Another Nazi fan boy speaks. If they wanted a better fate, they should have stayed in Germany. Cheers, Dan.

For those of you in the GTA and interested in cheap books, this weekend (Sept 13 to Sept 16) the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra is having its annual used book sale at Sheridan Mall in Mississauga. Lots of books on all topics, CDs and DVDs etc, cheaply priced. On Sunday, everything goes for half...

Unless I'm mistaken, William Osborne Smith was the first Commander of Military District 10 (Manitoba) when it was organized, and the person for whom Fort Osborne is named. Nothing to do with Fenians, I'm afraid. Just a piece of military trivia. Cheers, Dan.

So the junior rates get screwed again? Only the Royal Navy would publicize the fact that their sailors are truly lower class members. And they wonder why they can't recruit to strength. Cheers, Dan.

Jeez, Brian. You should write a history of the RCHA or something. Actually, a second volume covering the almost 50 years from 1970 is well overdue. I've always found that the history of the RCA is really a history of the Canadian Army, more so than any other arm or service. I, for one, would...

The Canadian infantry battalion went through many changes in the 60's, and to know which war establishment was being used you would have to pick a time period and a location. The battalions in Germany were not always organized like the battalions in Canada. Early in the decade the battalion...

Just watched the Coronation video. Great historical footage of long past Canadian personalities. A good investment of 50 minutes of my life. Just a few observations. Why did the narrator keep pronouncing the Mall as "the Mell?" It just didn't sound right. I had read somewhere that the weapons...

Thanks for posting Blackadder, great topic. I just watched the 1964 visit, and have a couple of random observations to make. Prince Philip wore his uniform as Colonel of THE RCR while in Charlottetown. The Queen's Canadian equerry was Roland Reid of the R22eR. The Vandoos paraded with chrome...

First off, great photographs. Lots of detail for a uniform geek like me, and lots of equipment that one doesn't normally see. Thanks for posting the link. Like you, I'm also curious about the operators for the 155mm howitzers. Regular regiments didn't have a medium battery until late 1958. I'm...

Ten years ago I posted a similar message on the Forces 40th Birthday. It didn't seem to generate much interest then, and it probably won't now. The dates of the formation of the RCAF and the RCN (the date of the formation of the Canadian Army is a subject of great debate) are known by all the...

Isn't that rather like the pot calling the kettle black when Saudi Arabia and Yemen break off communications with a nation they claim is supporting terrorism?  Saudi has been financing terrorist groups since the days of Yasser Arafat and the PLO.  Yemen hasn't stopped financing terrorist groups...