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0 PHOTOS: BRADLEY BISCHOFF; J. PAGE, PARKS CANADA Top: Wardens assigned to patrol Banff National Park gather at Stoney Creek Warden Cabin. Below: Wardens on patrol in Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan. “These are my last two babies,” says Rick Smith, foreman at Parks Canada’s Ya...
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0 PHOTO: DND General Rick Hillier, the new chief of the defence staff. Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, an army officer from Newfoundland, is the Canadian Forces new chief of defence staff. Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed Hillier in early February to replace General Ray Hénault, who is...
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0 Top: HMCS Athabaskan clears its decks to prepare for a helicopter landing during an exercise off Norfolk, Va. Inset: Sub-Lieutenant Shantell Wile grabs some deck time–staring at the horizon helps ward off seasickness. Below: Athabaskan’s flight crew perform their duties beneath the Sea King’s whooping...
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0 A Herc prepares for takeoff; (inset from top left) The remains of a U.S. cargo plane that crashed without a fatality in 1952; one of several Arctic wolves to visit the station; two of Alert’s tracked vehicles cross the tundra. Corporal Ron McLean is a...
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0 ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Michael James O’Rourke, Harry Brown, Frederick Hobson, Filip Konowal, Robert Hanna and Okill Massey Learmonth. During a bitter 10-day struggle—from Aug. 15-25, 1917—the Canadian Corps overran Hill 70, a treeless hillock on the north side...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: BARBARA SPURLL Ron Morrow is sitting in a red leather armchair, looking pretty relaxed for someone who has a needle and long, thin tube coming out of his right arm. One unit—450 millilitres—of his blood is making its way into a plastic bag at...
Archive for March, 2005
