Living in Interesting Times: The Early Seafaring Years of Lt. Cdr. J.C. Marston, RCN, CD, DSC (Retired) 1930-1945 My father first went to sea in the early 1930’s as a 15-year old bridge messenger aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company’s ocean liner Empress of Canada. until the end of WW2 in 1945. He spent almost 2 years
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A Renewal Of Our True Allegiance Is Needed
on July 1st, 2012
The question is, why is the value of our citizenship being so undermined and it seems that the only purpose for our citizenship is to perhaps boast a travel document that allows us to travel to anywhere in the world? There is such a distinct lack of interest in being active in community or federal service.
Money Talk Financial Windfalls
on November 23rd, 2011
Although it is quite rare to win a substantial amount of money in a lottery, many of the same elements are present when one receives a large inheritance. On the surface, one may think that large inheritances are equally as rare but given the current real estate values in the Greater Vancouver
Michelle Lee Williams The Afro News Community Life time Achievement and Legacy Award
on February 26th, 2011
It is the light she shone on internal issues a community must face to grow and gain. It is the focus on the Afric interests in art, education, sport and business within the community and outside towards a progressive interaction that serves all.
First Annual Sage Awards and The Afro News Celebrate the 2010 Community Contribution Recognition Awards
on February 10th, 2011
Invited guests gathered to honour both the roots of The Afro News and to mark the First Annual Sage Awards at the Hilton Hotel at Metrotown on January 28, 2011. The agenda included a reception where 70 members of the community hand the opportunity to mingle and also to meet the honourees.
Hubert Busy JR. Named USL W-League Coach Of The Year
on September 14th, 2010
Toronto-born and Kingston, Ontario-raised Hubert Busby Jr. was named Coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC women’s team in December 2009.
Le “Panel des régions” de Radio-Canada se tenait récemment en catimini…
on June 12th, 2010
Des structures de concertation complètement archaïques tel ce panel bidon continuent à bloquer toute véritable possibilité de réformes.
A Giant Branch of the Ebony Tree Has Fallen
Honourable Senator Oliver: I became a senator in 1990, and since that time, there have been enormous changes in our Canadian society and Canadians have been forced to recognize the fact that White people don’t own and run a country of 33 million people anymore.