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Sir James Douglas KCB, Governor. A remarkable man, born in Guyana, employed by the NWC and the HBC, he established Ft. Victoria, treated with the Island's Indigenous peoples, and raised the Victoria Voltigeurs & the Victoria Pioneer Rifles for the Colony's defence.

Great initiative by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - very much an organization "worthy of its hire".

A most impressive badge. Welcome to the family of Commonwealth Gunners. Ubique. Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt. (Everywhere. Where Right and Glory Lead.)

Fighting spirit.

Bored of all the revisionist hectoring about "systemic racism" in Canada, on Emancipation Day of all days? Celebrate the day instead, with stories you're not supposed to know and history you're not supposed to discuss. therealstory.substack.com/p/emancipation…

Well said.

Ready, Aye, Ready.

"Do you say that you sweat with the field guns? Then by God, you must lather with us!" - Kipling

Canada was ahead of the curve when it came to abolishing slavery. Lieutenant-Governor John Graves-Simcoe passed the first piece of anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire in 1793. Ten years later, Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Colborne remarked to visiting black Americans:

For the Selbies of the day, it was the Gordon Highlanders; for the Hoods, the Royal Irish Rifles (and the Royal Navy).

August 4, 1914: Canada enters the First World War. 🇨🇦 When Britain declared war on Germany, Canada was in too. By 1918, 619,000+ Canadians had enlisted—out of a population under 8 million. 📸 Navy League of Canada poster \#WWIHistory #CWMCollections

"War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil." - General Dwight Eisenhower 🪖

Fighting spirit.

Young and old, I have always been a fogey.

“Manners maketh man.”

Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray VC DSC RCNVR - one of the last Canadians to die during the Second World War, and the last Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross. BZ BC.

Per ardua ad astra.

Author of "Defeat into Victory" - his memoir of the Allied campaign in Burma during the Second World War and the transformation of a defeated army into a victorious force. The book is widely regarded as a classic in military literature, praised for its candidness and insight.