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A July 20, 2016 Brampton Guardian article is entitled: “SWEDEN: Stockholm’s urban planning continues to be a model for sustainable communities.” The opening paragraphs read: STOCKHOLM—It is a warm spring afternoon and we are standing in the middle of Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a “sustainable neighbourhood” in Stockholm, when the spotlight is stolen by a young blonde […]
Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > Chapter 3 of my Autobiography Story is concerned with my family’s refuge story – which as it turns out, is a story about how I ended up in Canada and among other things helps to explain my interest in military history. A couple of previous posts […]
Previous posts about Estonia (from where members of my extended family left as refugees in 1944) can be accessed here > A June 14, 2016 Estonian World article is entitled: “Pictures: Deported Estonians in Siberia.” The opening paragraphs read: In the summer of 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a result […]
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to send a message to Dr. Marilyn Langevin on the occasion of her retirement from the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR) in Edmonton. My message on the occasion of Marilyn Langevin’s retirement from ISTAR I first met Dr. Marilyn Langevin when I attended a three-week ISTAR clinic in […]
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 […]
I’ve recently borrowed from the Toronto Public Library The Story of San Michele, first published in 1929, by Axel Munthe. I borrowed the book because I remember reading it when I was a student at Malcolm Campbell High School. I read a fair amount of non-fiction and fiction when I was in high school. Some […]
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 […]