VanWartime

Vancouver, BC during the World Wars. Also on Instagram & Tumblr.

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With Crown Copyright noted on the reverse, seems like it would be an official photo, but I am not able to find it with cursory searches…

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@I_W_M Canadian serviceman Michael Murphy had a series of photos from WWII including Churchill’s visit to Normandy, have you seen this image before? Stock photo or candid? https://t.co/qSuGLg8nTS

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In 1944, Rudi Vrba and a comrade escaped Auschwitz-Birkenau and exposed the Holocaust to the world. He later settled in Vancouver, becoming a tenured professor teaching pharmacology at UBC. His new biography by Alan Twigg profiled in BC Bookworld: https://t.co/MOZG4jQ5WW

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1944: Vancouverites 'Cut The Cackle' to save lives during #wwii https://t.co/NHepJ4cKma

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Explosives experts detonate another bomb near North Vancouver trail network https://t.co/acMarXmg7q via @NorthShoreNews

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Gosh, this is nice.

Letter: Thank you to the Canadians who liberated The Netherlands 80 years ago https://t.co/LQIPVxryT4 via @NorthShoreNews

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Eve Lazarus: 80 years ago today, a ship blew up near Vancouver, killing eight people https://t.co/7OHUOqVhQb via @NorthShoreNews

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Time Traveller: Guns captured from German soldiers on display in North Vancouver https://t.co/MbrsAb2esl via @NorthShoreNews

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Massive new Canadian Navy ship launched in North Vancouver https://t.co/FuxivWLsjA

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This is BC: Celebrating an aviation legend Bud White’s 96th birthday party https://t.co/e1POh8lHIo

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@globeandmail Honestly tho the original has TOO MANY SYLLABLES!

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@globeandmail REMEMBER we also revised our NATIONAL ANTHEM? Here then is a kind suggested for REVISED Heart of Oak lyrics:
Instead of ‘To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,’
HOW ABOUT:
To honour we call you, NONE ARE SO BRAVE,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?

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Letter: A heartfelt Remembrance Day salute to the Unknown Soldier https://t.co/coKBS9ZCoR via @NorthShoreNews

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Remembrance Day ceremonies in the Lower Mainland https://t.co/VSehbG37BK

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Time Traveller: Ships made in North Vancouver protected convoys in Battle of the Atlantic https://t.co/1GqQUWUVU9 via @NorthShoreNews

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Where you can attend Remembrance Day ceremonies on the North Shore this year https://t.co/EPsPi23GCp via @NorthShoreNews

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Vancouver cenotaph watches over Remembrance Day for 100th year
Granite column was unveiled in 1924 in the aftermath of WW I's tragic carnage
#wwi #RemembranceDay2024 #LestWeForget
https://t.co/VViEC5QoLU

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REMINDER: TODAY!

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Join us at the museum on November 2 at 1pm for a Remembrance Day talk featuring Canadian hero, Lawrence Goodship.

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We veer from Vancouver to Halifax in this story from Legion Magazine, where we learn artist Richard Chambers did a series of illustrations for the Halifax Herald and Evening Mail very similar to what Jack Shadbolt did here… https://t.co/WcwPff57Ec

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@rgpoulussen First ship had guns, the rest did not? Obvs, they picked their targets…and that ship sunk!!