Signees

Today The Log Book contains over 200 signatures from veterans and witnesses of this horrific conflict. Each signature represents a direct link to past and the signer’s individual story which we here try to present in the most respectful and honorable manner attempting to preserve the history and ensure future generations can learn and maintain the legacy others sacrificed so much to give us.

Signees

George Markow

25 May 2022 Lars McKie 0

George Markow was born April 14, 1921 in Russia, just outside the city of Leningrad. He was born just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and George remembers the impacts it had on [Read more]

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Lorne Winer

22 May 2022 Lars McKie 0

Born November 7, 1917 Mr. Irwin Lorne Winer remembered life in the downtown slum of Toronto known as the Ward where he came of age during the depths of the Great Depression. Growing up in [Read more]

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Jack Reid

22 May 2022 Lars McKie 0

Jack Reid was born in Toronto, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943. Working as a depth charge operator on the HMCS Longueil (K672), Mr. Reid participated in numerous convoys of military and supply [Read more]

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Lorne McConnell

20 May 2022 Lars McKie 0

Lorne McConnell was born February 9, 1924 in Central Butte, Saskatchewan. He grew up in that small community, helping his father to run the town’s water and telephone systems. He also did very well in [Read more]

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Kazuo Odachi

21 January 2022 Lars McKie 0

Kazuo Odachi was born on 11 December, 1926 in a country village not far from Tokyo called Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi’s graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan’s occupation of China. Within a few years, Odachi [Read more]