Post by Tim Horton on Nov 12, 2019 5:22:35 GMT 10
Remembrance Day 2019
Cold, calm, high overcast and a skiff of snow on the ground and drive.
In town last Saturday for errands, and most everywhere you went there was a sea of red poppies with a black center. It also seemed you saw very few on people under 40 or so years old.
A stop at our local branch library. They always do a good job of highlighting books, DVD, and such for holidays and other calendar worthy events.
Years ago the movie “Anzacs” was quite popular. When Paul Hogan was at his peak, but an interesting movie regardless of who would have been in it from a history buff prospective.
We picked up and are watching a DVD with what turns out to be a series of programs, 6 total that I know of. The title being “Anzac Girls” Produced by Australia film board about the life of Anzac military nurses. I presume it was a TV series ? Of course there is some romance and personal side stories in it also, but much history of the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women that served in that capacity.
Again from a history buff prospective. The east coast, prairie, and west coast of Canada has contributed the most personnel to both world wars. Quebec (spit) had protest of all kinds over you name it during both wars. In the history of different regions of BC, there are a great many references to cabins, trappers routes, homesteads and such where no one came home. You can still see the decayed remnants of several cabins and homesteads close to our patch of bush.
Not my best and certainly not the most modern, but the rifle I use as a go to homestead rifle is a US, Enfield M1917 like my Grand Father brought home from the Marine Corps in WW1. All the time I was a kid it sat behind the kitchen door until I left home in the 1960s.
Anyone familiar with the “Anzac Girls” episodes ??
Are there more local history series, documentaries available ??
With such a seemingly harsh start to your warm season, hope all are safe.
Cold, calm, high overcast and a skiff of snow on the ground and drive.
In town last Saturday for errands, and most everywhere you went there was a sea of red poppies with a black center. It also seemed you saw very few on people under 40 or so years old.
A stop at our local branch library. They always do a good job of highlighting books, DVD, and such for holidays and other calendar worthy events.
Years ago the movie “Anzacs” was quite popular. When Paul Hogan was at his peak, but an interesting movie regardless of who would have been in it from a history buff prospective.
We picked up and are watching a DVD with what turns out to be a series of programs, 6 total that I know of. The title being “Anzac Girls” Produced by Australia film board about the life of Anzac military nurses. I presume it was a TV series ? Of course there is some romance and personal side stories in it also, but much history of the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women that served in that capacity.
Again from a history buff prospective. The east coast, prairie, and west coast of Canada has contributed the most personnel to both world wars. Quebec (spit) had protest of all kinds over you name it during both wars. In the history of different regions of BC, there are a great many references to cabins, trappers routes, homesteads and such where no one came home. You can still see the decayed remnants of several cabins and homesteads close to our patch of bush.
Not my best and certainly not the most modern, but the rifle I use as a go to homestead rifle is a US, Enfield M1917 like my Grand Father brought home from the Marine Corps in WW1. All the time I was a kid it sat behind the kitchen door until I left home in the 1960s.
Anyone familiar with the “Anzac Girls” episodes ??
Are there more local history series, documentaries available ??
With such a seemingly harsh start to your warm season, hope all are safe.