Young mechanic in Sicily and Italy invasionsDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — It’s been 70 years since World War II, and for Jim Stephen, now 93 and living in Englehart, it is a dim memory.Mr. Stephen enlisted in 1942, and embarked on a journey that would take
Second-generation veteran remembers the warDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — Randall McFarlane of Englehart grew up on a farm in the Charlton area. His father Alec McFarlane was a veteran of World War I and had seen action on the ground in France.
Veteran remembers being “moved around like flies”Steven Larocque Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Harvey Switzer was 23 years old when life suddenly
Cecil Blackwell: Navy Seaman during WW II and educatorSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter This is a photo of Navy seaman Cecil Blackwell,
Seeking public’s assistanceSince the millennium, The Temiskaming Speaker has conducted interviews with World War II veterans. Most of these interviews were published in The Speaker’s annual Remembrance Day tabloids. These previously published articles will be put together for a book the paper plans to publish in late summer
Cooking through the warDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter GOWGANDA — Frances Bullock radiates energy and confident independence as she approaches her 91st birthday.Her home in Gowganda is reflective of decades of perfecting the art of providing for others.It’s a good sunny place, which is just right after
Seeking public’s assistanceSince the millennium, The Temiskaming Speaker has conducted interviews with World War II veterans. Most of these interviews were published in The Speaker’s annual Remembrance Day tabloids. These previously published articles will be put together for a book the paper plans to publish in late summer
Speaker Reporter Darlene WroeThis spring marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Holland from Germany as the Second World War came to an end.My stepfather was
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Canada has embarked on six years of events commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the country’s engagement in the Second World War.Last week, a dozen local veterans of the war were honoured at a ceremony at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 33 in
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – “There’s a new team with a new minister.”So said Pierre Lemieux, the Conservative MP from the eastern Ontario riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell and parliamentary assistant to the minister of Veterans Affairs.MP Lemieux was in Temiskaming Shores last week
