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Graeme Decarie writes: I was just listening to Pete Seeger on Youtube. He was leading an audience in singing We Shall Overcome. I remember it as if it were yesterday with a packed house and I was still singing it with the rest of the audience. And there was Where have all the flowers gone…and […]
Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > I was born in Sweden in 1946, after my parents and several other members of the extended family including my grandparents on my mother’s side crossed the Baltic Sea to Sweden in the autumn of 1944. They made the trip in two separate boats. There were […]
An Archaeology News Network article posted on about August 2, 2015 is entitled: “Napoleonic soldiers found in mass grave starved to death.” The opening paragraphs read: “A longstanding mystery surrounding the deaths of 3,000 soldiers from Napoleon’s army found in a mass grave in Lithuania has been solved. “The jumbled bones of the men who […]
Twenty-five years ago in the summer of 1989, I travelled to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – at that time still under occupation by the Soviet Union. I also travelled to Sweden, which had maintained a state of neutrality, or at least the appearance of it, through the First and Second World […]
Trees are a topic that strongly interests me. My father, who was born in 1915, was a forester in Estonia. Before we arrived in Halifax in 1951, my father followed this line of work in Sweden for some years. Before that, our extended family had escaped as wartime refugees to Sweden from Estonia in 1944 […]
In email correspondence with a couple of people who plan to attend the Malcolm Campbell High School Sixties Reunion in Toronto on October 17, 2015, we’ve occasionally talked about how people ended up living in Montreal during their childhood and adolescence. Occasionally, people have stayed in Montreal all of their lives. I didn’t have the […]
The past week we’ve been dealing with the effects of water damage in connection with the weather event of July 8, 2013. Our work is moving along well. In my case over the years I’ve collected many bits of paper, some of which are important and much of which is good to get rid of. […]