In Honour of David Vivian Currie, VC, CD
David Vivian Currie, VC, CD was born July 8, 1912 and served in the Second World War with the 29th […]
Naval monument honours Royal Canadian Navy prairie seamen and RCN ships HMCS Regina (K234) and HMCS Weyburn (K173)
V34087 John Thompson (age 24), a cook aboard HMCS Regina and the son of Robert Parker and Helena Thompson […]
No. 7 B&GS Paulson MB
The number of airmen killed in the early days of the war was exceptionally high, indeed an airman who survived […]
Diary of Hurricane pilot, Battle of Britain
Canadian Press Article – reproduced in the Moose Jaw Times-Herald Moose Jaw Times Herald Friday, March 7, 1941 Poignant Ending […]
Moose Jaw’s Dambusters
Of the thirty Canadian airmen who participated on the famous Dambuster Raid, May 16-17, 1943, two were from Moose […]
BCATP gets underway
This article from the Moose Jaw Times Herald dated January 15, 1941, is significant for two reasons. It is the […]
Verrières Ridge
The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, the same group of regiments that participated in the Dieppe raid (qv) in 1942, captured […]
V-E Day at sea
Donald Woodman was undoubtedly present to witness these events:
D-Day
65 Saskatchewanians perished during the D-Day landings, two thirds of them in the two Rifles regiments which hit Juno Beach […]
SS Nerissa
The Nerissa was built at Glasgow in 1926 for the north Atlantic passenger/cargo business of the Red Cross line. She […]