Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee

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We wanted to share a couple of items that the Legion Magazine posted on their Facebook page on this day, the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum Jubilee.

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Similarly, Old Canada Series also posted an image to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee on their Facebook page.

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Finally, the Veterans Foundation posted this image of “the official cake of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by Patisserie Mark Bennett was safely delivered to Buckingham Palace this morning. He was asked to keep it a secret until the cake was safely delivered.”

Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

The villagers of Demydiv are being credited with saving Kyiv from what could have been a decisive attack after they flooded their own neighbourhoods and surrounding fields in the weeks after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

With Russian designs on the capital of almost three million now all but abandoned, the village of fewer than 2,500 is still cleaning up wet basements, soggy carpets and the saturated fields that had formed a quagmire the invaders—with all their technology, tanks and heavy tracked vehicles—could not cross.

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Warfighting at Mont Sorrel

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Mount Sorrel and two nearby hills were the last elevated positions held in the Ypres Salient at the start of June 1916.

In the next two weeks Canadian forces would lose and recapture the high ground. Nearly 4,000 would die there and more than 5,000 would be wounded.

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Digital Moose Lounge – Canada Day Picnic

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More information and tickets are available at:

https://www.digitalmooselounge.com/event-details/canada-day-picnic

Maple Leaf Route Webinar – NE-KAH-NE-TAH: The Liberation Of Welberg, Memory, Meaning and Experience

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This online events from a partner of Dominion Command may be of interest to some of our members.

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ANNA PEARSON, STEPHEN CONNOR, and ROBERT CATSBERG

NE-KAH-NE-TAH: THE LIBERATION OF WELBERG, MEMORY, MEANING AND EXPERIENCE

8 June @ 7:30 pm ET

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Over five days in November 1944, the Algonquin Regiment played a pivotal role in the capture of the tiny Dutch town of Welberg. In 2018, twenty Canadian university students returned to the site as part of an experiential learning course focused on the Regiment’s warpath from Point 140 to the Kusten Canal. Throughout the program, students both ‘walked the ground’ and engaged with contemporary communities in order to better understand past evens and consider the construction of historical meaning and memory.

This talk brings together three of the course’s facilitators: Anna Pearson (York University), Stephen Connor (Nipissing University) and Robert Catsburg (Welberg Liberation Memorial Foundation) to explore ways in which this hybrid of traditional and experiential learning introduced university students to a shared historical and cultural heritage.