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Gudrid the Far-Travelled an icon among Norse women

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Gudrid the Far-Travelled an icon among Norse women

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Viking women played essential roles in war and peace, but it’s unlikely any got around as much as Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, better known as Gudrid the Far-Travelled.

Born in 10th century Iceland, Gudrid sailed into the unknown aboard rudimentary longships, crossing the North Atlantic eight times, then trekking across the European continent and back again.

She journeyed across Iceland, and to Scandanavia and North America, where she gave birth to the first European born in the New World, Snorri Thorfinnsson, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus was credited with discovering the Americas.

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The Story behind the Canadian Navy’s “Black Tot Day”

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

“Yo-ho-ho and a bottle o’ rum!” goes the age-old shanty “Dead Man’s Chest.”

The iconic tune, which first appeared in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, could surprisingly be more fact than fiction in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Before Canada’s navy was established in 1910, Britain’s Royal Navy set the trends for much of life at sea.

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The sinking of U-111 by the British anti-submarine trawler Lady Shirley

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The sinking of U-111 by the British anti-submarine trawler Lady Shirley

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U-111, a Type-IXB U-boat of the 2nd Unterseebootsflottille, was a week’s sail from the French coast and the submarine pens at Lorient, France, when it took a detour.

A report had come in that a British steamer, possibly a tanker, was disabled and awaiting aid from a sea-going tugboat. U-boat headquarters, or BdU, suggested Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Kleinschmidt put the stricken vessel out of its misery.

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Louis Riel: a Métis freedom fighter

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

“I fear it will all end badly,” wrote Sister Jane Slocombe of Montreal’s Grey Nuns sometime during the mid-1800s.

“I fear this poor child does not have a good head on his shoulders.”

This “poor child” was none other than Louis Riel, the Métis-born father of Manitoba and protector of Indigenous-French rights in the Prairies. Riel was instrumental in leading two Métis governments and bringing Manitoba into Confederation.

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