Deaths | Décès
SOROS, Major (ret’d) Stephen CD Canadian Armed Forces Peacefully Friday, January 2, 2009 at the age of 76 years. Beloved husband of Darlene Wilson. Loving father of Jim (Carole) and Bill (Kathy). Devoted grandfather of Jessica (Corey), Bob, Mike and Amanda. Dear brother of Betty. Predeceased by his brothers Les, Julius and Louis. Fondly remembered…
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With Change Comes Opportunity Whoa, 2008 finished with a bang! I sold my half of IJ Solutions to Ian Miller and have begun 2009 as an independent. For anyone that has started their own company, you know that this sort of event does not go by unnoticed. So, before I go any further, I want…
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Bonne et heureuse Année à tous!
In This Issue 01 / 09 Thank You / Merci; e-Veritas 2008 Review – 45 editions; Escorting Santa test for fighter pilots; CDAI Seminar – CDA AGM – 26 & 27 Feb; IN MEMORIAM – 2008; Notices | Avis; Catching Up With the News; Ex-Cadets in the News; Where are they now? RMC Ex cadet…
Thank you | merci
Happy New Year everyone! With this edition 01 / 09 – we are launching our 5th year as Editors of e-Veritas. Over the past four, with the help of a whole lot of people we have cranked out 135 unique editions. It is through the efforts of a diverse group that we have managed this…
e-Veritas 2008 Review – 45 editions
LOOKING BACK… To find an article: copy title into the search bar on the top of the website and press the ‘enter’ key. To search for an individual: type their name into the search bar and press the ‘enter’ key. ‘I was bouncing down like a pinball’ “Thank you for wearing your – Support the…
Escorting Santa test for fighter pilots
Capt. Benoit Bouchard (R) and Capt. Matthew Maurice pictured just hours prior to their Christmas Eve flights. Burlington’s Matthew Maurice was flying high on Christmas Eve as an escort pilot for Santa Claus. By Dennis Smith, Burlington Post Staff Burlington’s Matthew Maurice will be flying high on Christmas Eve as an escort pilot for Santa…
CDAI Seminar – CDA AGM – 26 & 27 Feb
The 25th annual Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDAI) Seminar and the 72nd annual general meeting of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) will be held 26-27 February 2009 at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Canada. This year’s theme for the CDAI Seminar on 26 February 2008 is “Canada-US Relations – The Security Dimension,”…
IN MEMORIAM – 2008
5736 McDONNELL Dr. Francis Roland Nicholas (CMR RMC ’63) P. Eng, M.A.Sc Phd On Tuesday, December 9, 2008 age 68. Son of the late Mervin and Rita McDonnell. Survived by his wife Margaret, his three children Russell (Ulya Jensen), Angela (Brad Koskie), and Erin (Geoff Postle) and grandchildren Jack, Sydney and Jessica. Born in Ottawa,…
Notices | Avis
The $20,000 Technology Venture Challenge At the annual technology venture entrepreneurship challenge, students from Royal Military College of Canada, Algonquin, La Cité Collégiale, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, L’Université du Québec à Hull, Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College are invited to submit proposals for starting technology-based companies. The team whose proposal represents the most…
Catching Up With the News
Eugene Melnyk, left, Pat Quinn, and Bob Nicholson pose for a photo before jumping out of the practice tower during a team building camp at the CFB Petawawa on Tuesday. Before he made his simulated parachute jump Tuesday, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, the chair of the steering committee for the world junior hockey championships,…
Ex-Cadets in the News
5576 Mr Leonard G Lee (RRMC RMC 1962) founded Lee Valley Tools, a small mail-order business selling gardening and woodworking tools across Canada in 1978 . He developed the family-fun enterprise into a multimillion-dollar enterprise that now has more than 900 employees and 11 retail outlets from Halifax to Vancouver. In 1985, he founded Veritas…
Where are they now?
11784 LCol (ret`d) Wayne AF Haggart (RMC 1978) received the 2008 Deputy Minister/Chief Defence Staff Innovation Award from former CDS S148 Rick Hillier and Deputy Minister Robert Fonberg. LCol (Ret’d) Wayne Haggart, with the Directorate of Ammunition and Explosives Regulation (DAER), was a member of the planning team for the creation of a departmental ammunition…