Leo J Deveau

Ross Munro, OBE, OC, journalist (born 6 September 1913 in Ottawa, ON; died 21 June 1990 in Toronto, ON). Munro was one of Canada’s foremost Second World War...

Yolande “YoYo” Schick (née Teillet), baseball player (born 28 September 1927 in St. Vital, Manitoba; died 26 January 2006 in Winnipeg, Manitoba). Yolande Teillet was one of the first Métis women to play professional baseball. From 1945 to 1947, she…

Gladys Maria Marguerite Arnold, journalist, war correspondent (born 2 October 1905 in Macoun, SK; died 29 September 2002 in Regina, SK). Gladys Arnold was a journalist based in Paris, France, in the mid- to late 1930s. She was the only accredited…

Harry Wickwire Foster, CBE, DSO, army officer (born 2 April 1902 in Halifax, Nova Scotia; died 6 August 1964 in Halifax, Nova Scotia). Foster commanded two Canadian divisions in the Second World War and served in the European and Pacific theatres. He…

Carleton Lamont “Monty” MacMillan, CM, physician, politician, writer (born April 1903 in Goldboro, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia;died 10 February 1978 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia). MacMillan established a medical practice in Baddeck, where he practiced…

During the Second World War, a large naval repair base was established at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where many Allied ships were refitted and repaired following their work maintaining convoy and antisubmarine surveillance in the Atlantic. During the…

Llandovery Castle The Llandovery Castle was built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1914, as part of the Union-Castle Line, and sailed between London and Africa. Like many other ships, it was requisitioned for war service during the First World War. The…

The Amherst internment camp in Nova Scotia was the largest such camp in Canada during the First World War, with a maximum capacity of about 850 men. In total, there were 24 internment camps and receiving stations across the country. While most camps…

HMCS Cornwallis was established as a training centre for members of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) during the Second World War. Although it closed in 1946, it resumed operations as a training centre…

Gordon Sidney Harrington, labour lawyer, military officer (colonel), politician, premier of Nova Scotia (born 7 August 1883 in Halifax, NS; died 4 July 1943 in Halifax, NS). Educated at Dalhousie University, Harrington practised law in Glace Bay,…

Robert Leckie, CB, DSO, DSC, DFC, CD, pilot, air marshal (born 16 April 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; died 31 March 1975 in Ottawa, Ontario). Robert Leckie was a decorated flying-boat pilot who served in the Royal Naval Air Service in…

Major General Bertram (Bert) Meryl Hoffmeister, OC, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, ED, Canadian Army officer, businessman (born 15 May 1907 in Vancouver, BC; died 4 December 1999 in Vancouver, BC). During the Second World War, Hoffmeister commanded the…