For those who don’t know about Parc Oméga or where it is, it’s a wild animal park just north of Montebello about an hour and 10 minute drive east of Ottawa. You can drive your car through the various types of deer, elk, wild boars, a bison herd, and also see, in large woodland enclosures,…
TD Place arena lit up as several hundred spectators, mostly Russian, cheered on the Embassy of the Russian Federation hockey team, the Red Machine, as they embarked on the first game of the 2019 edition of the Friendly Series Hockey games against the Esprit de Corps Commandos hockey team. This series is played in good…
It’s time again for Lame Ducks hockey as the Ottawa Service Attachés Association (OSAA), made up of the defence attachés from the Ottawa area, suited up to take on their rivals from the Canadian Forces College International Studies Programme from Toronto, also composed of international players. Both teams are made of members from various countries…
Today (14th Feb, 2019) the Canadian War Museum opened a new exhibit entitled “The Wounded” in which it displayed 18 black-and-white portraits of Canadian men and women who served and were wounded in Afghanistan, taken by photojournalist Stephen J. Thorne. Sixteen of the portraits were originally featured in a series by Legion Magazine in 2017…
“We honour all those who gave the supreme sacrifice, but we also honour those who, daring to die, survived.” These were the parting words from Mr. Jack Callowhill, WWII veteran and member of the First Special Service Force (FSSF), at the Canadian War Museum on Wednesday, 22nd November, 2018, where the replica Congressional Gold Medal,…
images from the Royal Canadian Legion multi-media production shown on the Kipnes Lantern at the National Arts Centre and from the Veterans Affairs multi-media production “The Edge of Peace” shown in Confederation Park.
images from the Candlelight Tribute for Veterans held at the Canadian War Museum on the 5th November, 2018.
images from the Imjin Classic Hockey game played at TD Stadium in Ottawa. This Korean War commemorative game pits the Royal 22e Régiment (R22eR) against the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) as it did in the original game in 1952 on the Imjin River in Korea.
images from the 2018 Remembrance Ceremony held in the Senate Chambers of the Parliament Buildings.
images from the Habitat for Humanity Greater Ottawa site in Orleans during Veteran Build Day.