136 years ago, the largest mass execution in 🇨🇦history was carried out at Battleford, SK.
Children were brought from residential school to watch these men die, as a warning not to challenge the colonial order.
A tragic & often forgotten piece of our story. Remember their names:
Frontline workers gave up seeing their families for months to protect them. Excuse me if I don't shed a tear for people "forced to give up to their passion for that Mosaic Statium feeling" because of "Sagragation" 🤦
🚨FRIDAY GIVEAWAY!🚨
I wanted to paint something quick & fun, so I did a 45 minute Darth Vader!
Want it? I’m giving away my original painting! On wood slats ready to hang!
To enter:
simply retweet this post and my son will pick the winner on Sunday, randomly from retweet list
A gunner of the Saskatoon Light Infantry laying down harassing fire with a Vickers machine gun near Ortona, Italy, 7 January 1944. Credit: Alexander Mackenzie Stirton.
Privates H. McCoy, W.I. Clark, and T. Magill of the Saskatoon Light Infantry in a Universal Carrier equipped with a Vickers machine gun, Laurenzana, Italy, 19 September 1943. Credit: Alexander Mackenzie Stirton.