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The DMMF Run Around the Square – 11th of May 2014
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Come join us May the 11th 2014 in Canada’s prettiest town, the Port of Goderich, for the Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund’s 5th Run Around the Square – A part of the runpiker series! Take part in the 5km… …read more
If anyone ever asks you how many Royal Canadian Navy sailors died during the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic you can tell them that 2,143 Canadians paid the ultimate sacrifice.
LEST WE FORGET.
“Robert D’Aoust, who produced a four volume ‘biography’ of the 2,143 Canadian sailors killed in the Second World War, was honoured on Thursday night with the Admiral’s Medal at a gala for Battle of the Atlantic Veterans.”
Researcher honoured for detailing all 2,143 Canadian navy lives lost in the Battle of the Atlantic
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OTTAWA — Robert D’Aoust was honoured Thursday night, receiving the Admirals’ Medal at the annual Battle of the Atlantic Veterans dinner. But as far as he’s concerned the honour really belonged to others. The one-time Ottawa resident was among the 360 civilians and military pe… …read more
Today Canada remembers and honours those who braved the bleak and angry seas of the treacherous North Atlantic, those who guided the convoys across the Atlantic with a mighty enemy lurking beneath the waves, those who sacrificed their youth and the many so gave their lives so that we may have liberty.
Those Canadian men of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Merchant Navy who battled not only the absolutely atrocious and howling gales from the St. Lawrence to Londonderry and Liverpool, but also the freezing temperatures of the North Sea and the Arctic with convoy runs to far North of the Arctic Circle.
The brotherhood of devotion and love that these men displayed for Canada deserves our unfading remembrance today and always.
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Today is Battle of the Atlantic Sunday
When I go down to the ocean
I watch the restless wave
It is nature’s only tombstone
In memory of the brave.
Beneath the ocean’s surface
In the dark and silent deep
In God’s hands are the heroes
For whom our hearts still weep.
The years have passed so quickly
But my vigil I still keep
They are not dead but resting
In the ocean fast asleep.
There are no special markers
In the graveyard far from shore
Just restless waves above them
For now and evermore. …read more
The Battle of the Atlantic brought the war to Canada’s doorstep, with U-boats torpedoing ships within sight of Canada’s East Coast and even in the St. Lawrence River. Canada’s Merchant Navy, along with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), played a key role in the Allied efforts. East Coast cities soon found themselves involved in the battle, since Allied convoys (groups of ships that crossed the Atlantic together under the protection of naval escorts) were frequently leaving busy ports like Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, and St. John’s, Newfoundland, during the war. …read more
