MURRAY MCCANN: CITIZEN OF THE YEAR. Congratulations to Murray McCann, founder of the Field of Crosses, recently honoured by the City of Calgary as Calgary’s citizen of the Year. Click link for Calgary Herald’s coverage. Murray McCann, founder of Field of Crosses, named Citizen of the Year
22 April, 1915, Kitcheners' Wood, Belgium (about 3.5 km north of Ypres): It was pitch black when the 800 Canadian soldiers of the 10th Battalion arrived. Every soldier knew the situation was desperate and that many of them would not see morning. Earlier that evening, the Germans had launched the first chlorine gas attack of [...]