QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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No takers on my question of the NHL coach who‘s father served with the 15th Bn CEF? Hint he coached the Sabres for awhile.
Try this one. Name the player and the team he played for in the CFL who joined the RCAF during WW II became a pilot and was shot down and wounded?
Try this one. Name the player and the team he played for in the CFL who joined the RCAF during WW II became a pilot and was shot down and wounded?
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Who was the last Canadian killed in WWII? And on what day and month did it occur?
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Lt. Robert Hampton Gray VC,
August 9th 1945
August 9th 1945
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Good stuff, we should change the name of this thread to "QUESTION OF THE HOUR"
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Correct kirkpatrick (peeking at those links I posted weren‘t ya 
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The 49th Regiment of the Line (Hertfordshire) was commonly known as the Green Tigers because their facing colours were green and for their ferocity in battle.
The regiment served throughout Upper Canada during the war at Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Beaver Dams, Crysler‘s Farm, Plattsburg. In fact as far as I can tell only the 8th (Kings) and 41st (Welsh) were in more engagements among the regular British units.
Several members of the unit did volunteer to join Fitzgibbon's irregulars, as did members of the Provincial Dragoons and local militia (needed for their local expertise and contacts). The Bloody Boys operated behind the lines during the brief period when the Americans overran and held part of the Niagara Peninsula. They're main opponents were a similar group of Canadian renegades fighting on the American side.
Still waiting for an answer on my Fitzgibbon question(s).
Also there are quite a few other questions â Å“in playâ ? still. Let's see some answers, or those who posted them put us out of our misery and post the answers.
Oh yeah we're not changing this to Question of the Hour. That'll just encourage some out there to post new questions every minute, and eventually the title will be â Å“Question of the Nano-Second.â ?
Besides it has a nice irreverent ring to it.
).The 49th Regiment of the Line (Hertfordshire) was commonly known as the Green Tigers because their facing colours were green and for their ferocity in battle.
The regiment served throughout Upper Canada during the war at Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Beaver Dams, Crysler‘s Farm, Plattsburg. In fact as far as I can tell only the 8th (Kings) and 41st (Welsh) were in more engagements among the regular British units.
Several members of the unit did volunteer to join Fitzgibbon's irregulars, as did members of the Provincial Dragoons and local militia (needed for their local expertise and contacts). The Bloody Boys operated behind the lines during the brief period when the Americans overran and held part of the Niagara Peninsula. They're main opponents were a similar group of Canadian renegades fighting on the American side.
Still waiting for an answer on my Fitzgibbon question(s).
Also there are quite a few other questions â Å“in playâ ? still. Let's see some answers, or those who posted them put us out of our misery and post the answers.
Oh yeah we're not changing this to Question of the Hour. That'll just encourage some out there to post new questions every minute, and eventually the title will be â Å“Question of the Nano-Second.â ?
Besides it has a nice irreverent ring to it.
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OK Boss, the answer to my first question is "Punch Imlach". The answere to the second question is "Tony Golab" of the Ottawa Rough Riders. I guess I am too old for most of the people on this board and maybe should refrain from posting questions.
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Try this one. Which famous Canadian runner who was wounded twice and once thought to have been KIA served in the 107th Pioneer Bn CEF.
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the war?
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Indiana Jones!
not a clue...but I want to know!
not a clue...but I want to know!
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The P.C. way of saying slaves. remember Upper Canada had abolished the institution of slavery years earlier.
Actually one of my ancestors was an "indentured servant" in Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolution. Caught stealing heep in Scotland and transported to the colonies as punishment.
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Gee I was an indentured apprentice under the laws of the province of Ontario, I guess I wasn‘t bright enough to relise I was a paid slave.
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CHE:
" Indentured service " was not quite slavery. Here is how it worked......a youngster would be taken in to learn a trade, by a master in a trade such as a capenter, mason, wheelwright, or black smith, for a set period of years. In return for their labour, they were fed and housed and clothed. At the end of their service they could continue to work with their master, or set out on their own.
This system allowed children from poor families to have at least some chance to become educated in a way to make a living for themselves, in the days before formal education was universal. BTW, the indentured servant sysytem was NOT based on skin colour, but on class, and poverty.
Females were restricted to work as household servants, such as cooks and washer women, or seamstresses, and child care workers. Savings to be able to marry were scarce, and social class also restricted the indentured servants chances of moving up, thru marriage. Hard as it maybe to consider now, social stratification was ironclad, and marrying "above your station" was unusual, especially for young men.
" Indentured service " was not quite slavery. Here is how it worked......a youngster would be taken in to learn a trade, by a master in a trade such as a capenter, mason, wheelwright, or black smith, for a set period of years. In return for their labour, they were fed and housed and clothed. At the end of their service they could continue to work with their master, or set out on their own.
This system allowed children from poor families to have at least some chance to become educated in a way to make a living for themselves, in the days before formal education was universal. BTW, the indentured servant sysytem was NOT based on skin colour, but on class, and poverty.
Females were restricted to work as household servants, such as cooks and washer women, or seamstresses, and child care workers. Savings to be able to marry were scarce, and social class also restricted the indentured servants chances of moving up, thru marriage. Hard as it maybe to consider now, social stratification was ironclad, and marrying "above your station" was unusual, especially for young men.
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I never said they were slaves that was Danjanou, Get him guys!
I figured that they were contracted servants meaning they got payed etc. I didn‘t know all of what Jim said however, so that is interesting.
I think the "Sixbits" is a march, but to be honest I have no idea who or what it is based on.
I figured that they were contracted servants meaning they got payed etc. I didn‘t know all of what Jim said however, so that is interesting.
I think the "Sixbits" is a march, but to be honest I have no idea who or what it is based on.
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Thanks Jim, that‘s probably a better defintion than my brief (and almost witty one). I guess Art can breathe easier now. As you noted it was based on class not skin colour. Like I noted I had a Scottish ancestor who was one.
Che thanks for takin the bullet on that one bud. BTW you‘re wrong on the "sixbits" though, anyone got it?
I figure Boomer and FUBAR should know and that ws a whopping big hint.
Che thanks for takin the bullet on that one bud. BTW you‘re wrong on the "sixbits" though, anyone got it?
I figure Boomer and FUBAR should know and that ws a whopping big hint.
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