Lieutenant (N) Richard (Dick) Callery PEARCE

Dick Callery Pearce was born in Cannifton, Ontario, in 1921. He left his engineering studies at the University of Toronto to join the Royal Canadian Navy, achieving the rank of Lieutenant (N). Dick served for four and a half years in WW2, which included three years in corvettes on the North Atlantic convoy run between Newfoundland and Ireland, with stops in New York, Halifax, Saint John, Bermuda, Iceland, Scotland and England. He was the navigating officer in two corvettes and was also second in command of three of the ships. During the war he often encountered former Appleby College classmates. He also met his bride-to-be, Betty Chambers. Read Full Article Here

Kenneth Eugene Cowan

My name is Kenneth Eugene Cowan. I was born on October 2, 1920, in the little lakeside town of Picton Ontario, sometimes known for it’s rum running days across Lake Ontario during Prohibition (1927-1932). I joined the Canadian Navy at the age of 21. All my friends had joined one of the three forces; I joined the Navy because I wanted to see the world. Read Full Article Here

The Funeral of Lieutenant-Commander Alan Easton

It is especially difficult today, when the civilised world is confronting the menace and all too deadly reality of  world-wide terrorism, to think back to a time 60 years ago, when our world was faced with an even greater peril, one that could have set the course of civilisation back a thousand years. That threat from Nazi Germany was confronted, challenged and defeated by our nations and brave men and women, such as Lieutenant-Commander Alan Easton, Distinguished Service Cross, Royal Canadian Naval Reserve. Read Full Article Here

Teen Life in Wartime Halifax

This is a story about a group of teenaged boys living in Halifax during the war years of 1940 to 1943. They of course were all attending school either junior high or high school and therefore had a first-class look at the life and times of a city at war.  Most of the boys I was with went to St Patrick’s High on Brunswick St. and at times it was a long walk from Shirley St. to St Pat’s but we had bicycles and during a rainy day we could travel on the tram cars for 10 cents (if we had ten cents). Read Full Article Here