James Fitzgerald was born in Ajax, Ontario and grew up in nearby Whitby. He joined the reserve Canadian Forces in 2002 when he was 16, and he went on to attend Trent University in Peterborough. All the while he continued to train and specialize in the armoured corps. Eventually he made the transition to the […]
Andrew Holleran was born and raised in Oromocto, New Brunswick. He graduated from UNB in 2001 and joined the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in 2004, training as an artillery officer. From 2006-2010 he was attached to the 5ieme Régiment d’artillerie léger du Canada (RALC), where he served as a Troop Commander/Command Post Officer. Through that […]
Paul Hale was born June 15, 1954 in Oldham, England. His parents moved to Canada when he was quite young, so Paul was raised in northern Ontario, ending up in the Timmins area. There he decided to join the Canadian Forces after serving in the reserves, and while in university he chose the officer path. […]
Ken Lutz was born February 27, 1957 in Souris, Prince Edward Island. He grew up in that small community alongside his three siblings; Ken’s father was a mechanic but Ken spent much of his early years at the farm across the street, and he even attended a one room school at one point. He […]
William (Bill) Toussaint was born February 8, 1947 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. His father had emigrated from Grenada before the Second World War, looking for work in the region’s steel plants. Bill grew up in that multiracial community, in a family that had developed a military reputation (one of his uncles was in the First […]
Thomas Pitt was born January 12, 1931 in London, Ontario. He grew up there against the backdrop of the Second World War, watching his older brother and father go off to war. Tom stayed home with his mother and sister, and in 1945 he was able to greet his brother and father on their homecoming. […]
Don Pennell was born October 16, 1937 in Grimsby, Ontario. He grew up there and in Oakville, first against the backdrop of the Second World War, and the “Fabulous 50s”. Don was young during the war, but he recalls an uncle who served, and he remembers the rationing from the time. His father became a […]
Ken Villiger was born October 19, 1930 in Montreal, Quebec. He joined the Canadian Forces right out of high school, just as the Cold War was heating up. Ken would see service in Korea, and during his long military career he played on just about every sports team the army had. Ken was a paratrooper […]
Kelvin McDonald served in the Canadian Forces from the 1970s to the 1990s. During that time he was deployed as a peacekeeper on multiple occasions, helping to set a high bar for Canadians serving overseas. Kelvin was first deployed to Egypt, maintaining the peace along the Sweetwater Canal during the time of the Egypt-Israel 1973 […]