It is like a mist, history is. The comings and goings of the myriad of individuals who populate our world is significant to them and their kin. But, as time goes by, as family members die, and when a family’s future is not guaranteed by the issue of progeny, that person’s history dies out very... Continue Reading →
Now We See Through the Glass Darkly; But Then Face to Face
Such was the epitaph on the headstone of Major V.H. de Butts Powell. This Canadian soldier was to have an impact on Canadians and the Western world long after his death on January 2, 1918. Before Major de Butts Powell joined the Canadian Field Artillery on January 15, 1915 he served as a teaching master... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 