From The Time Traveller WATSON VOTED TO ALL STARS Congratulations to Bryan Watson of this Village (Bancroft), who is playing hockey with Peterborough Petes Junior Hockey Club in being chosen to the Junior All Stars. Bryan grabbed the other side of the blueline as defenceman. BRYAN WATSON, LOCAL HOCKEY PLAYER HAPPY WITH CANADIANS Bryan […]
Month: February 2023
HOCKEY TALES – Walter Gretzky
AN EVENING with WALTER GRETZKY The CFB Trenton Pond Hockey Classic, organized by Captain Jeff Moorhouse on behalf of 436 (T) Squadron, ran January 17/18 using 3 natural ice surfaces at Batawa, Ontario. Funds raised were earmarked for the Military Families Fund and the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation. Featured guest speaker for the “Roots of […]
HOCKEY TALES – Ron Ellis
THE CFB TRENTON POND HOCKEY CLASSIC In 2012, Captain Jeff Moorhouse, on behalf of 436 (T) Squadron, organized a fun sports day pond hockey tournament to raise funds for the Military Family Fund “while promoting a healthy outdoor sport that fosters camaraderie and esprit de corps.” Rebranded as “The Classic” in 2013 this one day […]
THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE – Conclusion
The schooner sailed for Hudson Bay, and on the trip had numerous miraculous escapes from icebergs and ice floes, and was nearly wrecked several times. Finally Chesterfield inlet was reached. The party pressed inland, and for three years scoured a vast land some half a million square miles in area in a vain search for […]
THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 3 continued
Early in the spring of 1916 the patrol again took up the trail and crossed over the Divide to the Coppermine River, thence down that stream to Coronation Gulf on the Arctic. Here they were fortunate in falling in with Corporal Bruce, one of the members of Stefansson’s expedition. Although he had heard nothing of […]
THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 3
HISTORY OF THE NWMP – Continued “It seemed,” said McIntyre, “as though we were suddenly passing from winter into spring.” Soon after they came upon the first of numberless hot springs, the snow disappeared entirely, and dense vegetation took the place of the stunted bush and timber of the plains. Because of necessarily slow travel […]
THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 2 continued
From column# 421 The Time Traveller NWMP A NEW MOUNTAIN RANGE The Indians stated that the mountains ran “many day’s journey” to the south, and the river which they had found was known as “the river where once lived the strong men who were not afraid of the rapids.” Mellor and Johnson went only to […]
THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 2
PART TWO What is without question the most remarkable fact about the expeditions of these police explorers of northern Canada is that discoveries of tremendous importance have been made, and yet hardly any mention has been made of them in the newspapers or geographical journals. It is most inconceivable to believe that two new lakes, […]
THE NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 1 continued
Part 1 Continued from 1920. It (Herschel) is nearly two thousand miles from civilization, but it is only one of many similar desolate police stations in the wilderness of the great Northland. The men of this remarkable police force, perhaps the most famous body in the British Empire, have been the very backbone of strength […]
THE NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE – Part 1
From column #419 1920 THE TIMES TRAVELLER THE BRILLIANT HISTORY of the ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE The decision of the Canadian Government to increase the Royal North-West Mounted Police Force to more than five times the number ever engaged as patrollers of the far places calls attention to this remarkable body of men and […]