My grandmother was enrolled in to Holy Angels Indian Residential School on October 3rd, 1935
My grandmother’s brother George was killed in Italy in 1944. The article also mentions that grandma’s brother John Waniandy had also been wounded in Italy. So yeah, Richard has some pretty big shoes to fill.
Found an interesting announcement from the Edmonton Journal that was published on July 15, 1956. The article shows my father and my uncle Doug being in Grade 5 and Grade 4 respectively. Along with my father’s cousins Karen and George being in the same school. The medals were presented by…
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Richard was photographed aboard the HMCS Ottawa in 1969. This was 3 months and 1 day prior to the HMCS Kootenay incident. HMCS Ottawa was also amongst the ships that were returning from the UK on Oct 23rd, 1969.
During full speed trials testing of the HMCS Kootenay on a return trip from the United Kingdom the Kootenay sufferes an gearbox explosion due to oil vapour being ignited by an overheated bearing. 3 of my father’s friends died in the fireball.
I was born on in September of 1971 at the Salvation Army Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The first house that I lived in was a military PMQ.