Professor Andrea Lane is a Defence Scientist with the Maritime Operational Research Team, providing operations research support to Maritime Forces Pacific in Esquimalt. She is part of a team of defence scientists who do deep dive research into defence topics of interest to commanders. Check out the additional photos on our 2024 yearbook page.
On Sept 5, 2022, Greg and Marilyn Pyke from Graham, Washington, USA, anchored along the South Cove of Yorke Island to check out a concrete structure they had seen an old photo of in the nautical guide, "Exploring The South Coast of British Columbia" * by Don and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass. Check out the rest of their story here. As a former cannon foundry and having centuries more history than The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, one assumes that there will be many ancient cannons on the premises. This turns out to be a very accurate assumption.
Another country, another capital and another military museum. Originally a cannon foundry, the building was devastated in the 1755 earthquake and tsunami. Rebuilt as a military museum, the building has an amazing architecture with impressive details.
The City under Siege Exhibition outlined the events in the late 1700s as the British endured a four year siege from the Spanish and French armies. I've only shown the bit on soldiers' graffitti.
All along the road leading to the top of the rock there are large iron rings imbeded in the ground. It was nice to see the official explanation.
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