Events that I have photographed.
Ottawa’s Rapid Football Club is having a good year and, prior to this game, stood one point out of first place in the Northern Super League (NSL), with Montreal holding first place. So, this game was important in that if they won, Ottawa would move into first place having gained three points but, more importantly,…
To see all the pictures, CLICK HERE: On Thursday, August 27th, 2026, many people of the defence attaché community gathered at the Rideau Club in downtown Ottawa to say goodbye to LCol. Mark de Wit, outgoing defence attaché for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and to welcome the incoming defence attaché, LCol….
I know I haven’t posted much this summer but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t working. In most cases, it was because the organizations I was working for have their own websites and stories and as such have rights to the images. However, some events should be publicized because of their importance such as the 100th…
For those of you who did not know, Elsa Lessard passed away on July 22nd, 2025, at home, having celebrated her 103rd birthday on July 2nd. I won’t go into Elsa’s background as many stories have already been written about her but she was a WWII veteran as a WREN and was employed intercepting German…
To see the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: D-Day. The 6th of June, 1944. The Day that was the start of the end of WWII. Eighty years ago this mass undertaking, the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as Operation Neptune (the entire Normandy Campaign was known as Operation Overlord), started in Northern France…
On Thursday, 29th February, 2024, the Embassy of Kuwait in Canada hosted a reception in room TwentyTwo at the top of the Westin Hotel to celebrated its 63rd year of independence and the 33rd year since the liberation of Kuwait from the occupation of Iraq. To see all the pictures, CLICK HERE: Kuwait gained its…
To see all the pictures, CLICK HERE: Many celebrations are now taking place since the long dry spell inflicted upon us by Covid has relaxed and unlimited group size gatherings are again permitted. This is the case with the RCAF Gala Ball which was held on June 3rd, 2023, at the Infinity Centre in Ottawa….
To see all the images from CANSEC 2023, CLICK HERE CANSEC 2023 took place at the EY Centre on 31st May and 1st June, 2023 and was another show of what the world has to offer for security and defence, mostly at the nation level, although there were various vendors who could easily supply equipment…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE It gets confusing when you have two events celebrating what appears to be the same thing. This is how it was for me as International Peacekeepers’ Day was celebrated by a remembrance ceremony at the National War Memorial (NWM) on the 29th May, 2023, and…
So, the question is, who is Bertha Wilson and why is she getting a plaque? Although unknown to many of us, Bertha Wilson was a significant presence within the Canadian justice system, born and educated in Scotland but emigrating to Canada in 1949. She practiced law for many years in several capacities but her claim…