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January 6, 2012

Starfighter for Alberta Museum

Thanks to a legacy fund set up by a pilot honoured in Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame, the Alberta Aviation Museum will be getting its

Breaking News! The Kandahar Memorial is Home

Despite the Pakistani ‘blockade’ on Canadian cargo being shipped out of Afghanistan, the memorial to Canada’s Afghan war dead has arrived safely in Ottawa. According

Travelling About: January-February 2012

1. Share Cross-Border Friendships

In early 1813, during the War of 1812, Lieutenant-Colonel George MacDonnell, commander of Fort Wellington in Prescott, Ont., led his troops across the ice on the St. Lawrence River to attack and burn much of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Enjoy a re-enactment of the event and hospitality on both sides of the river where friendships have long since flourished. Fort Wellington sets the action by firing an 18-pounder from its ramparts.

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