Letters in a Time of War: Victory 1945

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@RLitwiller Thanks for this #WW2 letter reading @RLitwiller
As we mark #RemembranceDay and the 75th Anniversary of the end of World War 2, a touching reminder of the lives lost in the #BattleoftheAtlantic and families left behind.
@RoyalCanNavy @HMCSSACKVILLE1 @CAFinUS @RoyalCdnLegion

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@ShackTS I was saying to a friend that this is payback for going to rainy WC qualifiers at Varsity stadium in late November, outnumbered by visiting fans and our team playing kick and chase football. We've come such a long way.

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@TVOdocs @TheCdnAcademy Elwy Yost! Was there a better, more enthusiastic interviewer about film ever? #TVO

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@TSN_Sports The fact that the Habs chose Therrien over PK continues to boggle the mind.

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@jackrichrdson Chabot played with a broken arm. Leave him out of it.

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This is fantastic and real attempts should be made to replicate this level of care across the province, not just in the GTA.

[Healthing.ca @healthing_ca]

Sponsored: “Being ranked the second-best hospital in the world is a powerful validation of the strength of our integrated academic health system,” says Dean Connor, chair of the board of directors for UHN.

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@jkenney AY Jackson designed us a flag and somehow Pearson and co. turned it down.

[Kevin Lee @BringBackLee]

The Sens are looking to fill the building tomorrow with Sens fans and have provided me with a link for discounted tickets starting at $85 each in the 300s to $199 in the 100s (prices include tax/fees).

Sens fans only, DM if interested in the link. Let's fill the house!

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@awkwardgoogle This happened in Canada. It's a functioning democracy. Journalists don't get fired for doing their jobs in Canada. The cameraman definitely did NOT lose his job over this.

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Thread:
Canada's last surviving officer of the #BattleoftheAtlantic

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

1943. British T-Class submarines. #WW2 #HISTORY

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

April 1943, Tunisia. Spitfires Mark VB with Vokes filters, from 417 Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY

[James Brun @LeBrunJames81]

Personnel of the Saskatoon Light Infantry firing a mortar, near Ortona, Italy, 5 January 1944. Credit: Alexander Mackenzie Stirton.

[Canadian Naval Memorial Trust @HMCSSACKVILLE1]

To December 18th, roughly 25% of the new plating in the current work cycle had been installed since late September. Here are some close-ups of the work as of the week before Christmas. @CDNShipbuilders @RLitwiller @NavalMuseumHFX @ns_mma #RCNavy #refit

[Nathan Kehler @nathan_P44]

I made a neat little web app on Bomber sorties from the Second World War. It is just quick and dirty and was more PD exercise than anything else. But I had fun and will be doing some more of this for sure:

[James Brun @LeBrunJames81]

Lieutenant Commander RAS MacNeil and an unknown Sub Lieutenant standing next to their ship, HMCS Dauphin. Both men left the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to join the Navy. November, 1942. © IWM (A 12845).

[Rae Webster @tcbtttc]

@War_Letters @skyflower2569 @RCAF_ARC We found it in our mother’s house when we were clearing it after she died aged 94. When her brother died my mother joined the WRENs and was stationed at Scapa Flow. Her other two brothers were also in the forces.

[Julie-Anne @socialjunemkt]

#CanadaRemembers the overlooked & forgotten too.

Remembering Black Canadians soldiers.

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@tcbtttc @skyflower2569 @RCAF_ARC That is amazing. What a treasure to have.

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On this #VJDay75, a 1943 letter home from Ceylon by @RCAF_ARC radar operator LAC John Ogston of Winnipeg, read by his daughter Judy Graham.

For more of Ogston's stories and letters visit our Youtube channel: https://t.co/aSK8Nz5jvH
#LestWeForget

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[Mike Commito @mikecommito]

Frank McGee, who famously scored 14 goals in a Stanley Cup challenge game for Ottawa, enlisted to serve for Canada in the First World War. He made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. McGee was killed in action in 1916 #CanadaRemembers #LestWeForget

[Rae Webster @tcbtttc]

@War_Letters @skyflower2569 @RCAF_ARC This is the letter Leonard Burchall wrote to my grandparents after he was released as a prisoner of war to tell them how their 22 year old son had died.