Tag: Second World War
Billy Bishop Museum marks 25 years of honouring local veterans
This year’s honourees included Sgt. Howard Arnold Jones, of the Queen’s Owen Rifles of Canada, who’s featured in two museum exhibits, including a new one about Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s war service.
Billy Bishop Museum to host spooky trivia night this month
It’s about to get spooky, night-at-the-museum style, in Owen Sound this month. The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a Spooktacular Trivia Night at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound (1450 2nd Ave. W.) on Friday, Oct. 25. Billed as a ghoulishly good time, doors creak open at 6 p.m. the night of the event, […]
HMCS Margaret Brooke visits Owen Sound to recruit and raise awareness
The navy is short some 1,600 sailors
Bruce County Memories: Farmerettes were the unsung heroes on the home front
It was 1940, a time of national emergency. At the start of the Second World War, Hitler’s army ruthlessly swept across western Europe. Britain suffered devastating bombing raids and food shortages due to German blockades. Canadian farms would have to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of food to feed the troops and the starving […]
Larsen: Attacks on school boards threaten local democracy
Grassroots democracy is at stake as Ontario warms to the idea of abolishing school boards, warns an education expert who is also a trustee