Canadian War History Tours

10/08/2026

When the original tent hospital of No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) along the dunes of Dannes-Camiers, just north of Etaples, all but blew away in the first winter storms of 1915, a new site had to be found. Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae and a few officers went up the coast to Boulogne to check out possible alternatives. They settled on a partially burnt Jesuit school that had some usable rooms.

Ultimately they had a facility that covered about 25 acres and admitted and treated almost 150,000 patients by the end of the war. This hospital never got anything but the highest praise for their professionalism and efficiency.

10/08/2026

My two clients, both career medical men, stand in front of the John McCrae stele at the site of the first iteration of No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill.) The landscape has changed. The dunes and the sea are far away now, but this was the site of the original busy tent hospital in 1915.

10/07/2026

Canada House is always on the list on Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. It was captured at great cost on June 6, 1944 by the Queen's Own Ri**es of Canada, the first regiment to take their objectives that day.

10/03/2026

Canada Bereft - always beautiful. At the Vimy Ridge Memorial.

09/28/2026

Very interesting.

Canadian troops fought the Battle for the Kapelsche Veer Jan 26 to 31, 1945, eliminating a German paratrooper bridgehead on the Maas River. Canadian forces suffered 130 to 180+casualties.German losses, over 140 dead plus wounded and prisoners.

09/27/2026

Listening to the young guide at Beaumont Hamel, Maktar. We had him at Vimy too. He's a good one.

09/27/2026

The group at the little RCAF memorial beside the highway out of Courseulles-sur-Mer on our last day of seven. They were a fun bunch!