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Statuegate fodder.

This is the private memorial to the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion in English Canada's most communist friendly city, Victoria.

Notice the wheat sheaf, possibly symbolizing the power of the communist state, is held high in the right hand, the dove symbolizing peace is held low in the left hand, in supplication to communist power.

The survivors of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion as far as I know kept a low profile. I don't know if many of them returned to Canada after the defeat of Republican forces.

More globally, on the Loyalist side, I had heard there were vets who fought for the Axis 'Blue Division' in WWII. On the Republican side, there were vets who fought on the side of the USSR during WWII. This gave rise to the addition of the pejorative term: 'fellow traveller' to human vernacular. A well deserved term.

The most notorious member of the mad caps was of course the traitor Bethune, who remained silent while Smersh started executing Republican volunteers for sport. I think he formed his blood transfusion unit so he would have a ready made alibi for leaving his unit when it was time to get out of Dodge.

Hemingway devoted some paper and ink to Bethune's clowning as well as Orwell if I am not mistaken. Parks Canada for some reason bought his family home a while back. They have declared an intention to massively increase tourist visits in a weak attempt to legitimize its status as a heritage property. What a #### show. I have a better idea. Sell it to the CCP so we as Canadians have a better idea who we are dealing with.

The Chicoms have a pet name for Bethune. There are other living Canadians who have been bestowed with this highly dubious honourific.

I would like to see a website with the list lol.

I read there are over 700 Mac Pap members who were buried in Spain. I'd like to know much more about that, but this info is kept obscure for some reason. In addition, over seven hundred is close to or slightly more than half of a full strength battalion by 1980's measures.
 
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woodchopper said:
some payback from a previous altercation
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Yep, the dirtbags thought they could make their “presence” at the Roslyn but some military oriented people took exception to that. There wasn’t an available baseball bat in stock at sporting stores in Edmonton for quite some time after that. Lol

The “Ros” was a great spot at the time. :)
 
The Coffee cup was out of bounds to the Airborne at the time. A young 1 CDO guy went there and got knifed. ! CDO did not take this well. I was attached to them as their armourer at the time. A convoy of Airborne troops made our way down town. The MPs knew what we were up to as did the city police. There were a whole lot more that 20. On entering the cup, people that didn't want to be involved, were to keep their hands on the table tops and they were not harmed. The city police arrived on scene conveniently after we had all cleared out and arrested several of the bruised patrons. No word was ever whispered in the media that soldiers were involved.
Yes, the Ros was our hangout.
 
May 1956 Fort York (Soest) Germany 2 CIB on parade .. ( 1 RCR) obviously not all the armour and transport on parade … but 24 guns. (Sorry about the format) … first time I saw an FN was in the indoor .22 range at this location and around this time … was not on issue of course then.
 

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Two battle damaged B-17 bombers that managed to make it back. Tough birds and I can only imagine the piloting skill necessary to keep them flying and still make a safe landing.20250105_121934.jpg20250105_121901.jpg
 
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Used to see a lot of the Labradors doing runs out of Greenwood, a helo so loud you could genuinely hear before you could see it. Watching them do training just across the river from the house was always fun.
 
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