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Dear C&E Friends, Attached is a link to the Beaverbrook Vimy Prize sponsored by the Vimy Foundation. The prize is to be awarded based on applications from 15-17 year old Canadians for a two week fully funded educational program in Belgium or France 8-20 August 2020. More detail is available in the link but hopefully someone from our C&E family might consider applying for this significant educational opportunity. Beaverbrook Vimy Prize
Dear C&E Family members, Below is a link from Canadian Military Family Magazine that includes a recent announcement from the Ontario government offering free weekday access to all Ontario Parks for veterans and serving CAF members who reside in Ontario starting 11 November 2019. Canadian Military Family Magazine Article
By Cliff Kenyon. It’s hard to imagine that there is a unit at 4 Wing Cold Lake that can trace its beginnings to people waving flags at each other to communicate important messages. But that’s where it all began for today’s Wing Telecommunications and Information Services (WTIS) Flight and on Oct. 24 some 4 Wing members celebrated their 116 year history with a cake and presentations. They were marking the proud past of the Royal Canadian Corp of Signals who started in about 1903 commuting on the battlefield using semaphores. No one at WTIS now knows how to send messages by semaphore. What was once quite simple nowadays is far more complex. Now they talk of satellites and computer networks and perhaps most importantly security. “It’s good to celebrate out own history and showcase our history with others,” said Major Kris Hjalmarson. The approximately 90 members of the flight, some of them civilians but mostly Canadian Armed Forces members, are tasked with keeping all telecommunications on the wing operating smoothly and safely in a secure space. That may include the computer you use daily at your desk, the networks that connect it to other computers and communications from the air […]