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IN THIS ISSUE Nine years promoting Islington Rate Payers Cultural Mashups Summer is on its way Art, history, gastronomy Community Corner Helpful tips Youth photo exhibit Islington Seniors’ Centre World Cup action Public artwork
Remembering D-Day’s 70th Anniversary and Harold Shipp’s Lancaster Bomber By Tammy Frade
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Commemorating ceremonies of remembrance took place all over the world this June 6th for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. D-Day was the pivotal moment in World War II for the Allies and began the Battle of Normandy. In the early, dark hours on June 6, 1944, our Canadian troops along with the other Ally soldiers from other countries valiantly descended on the sandy shores of Normandy, France. Thousands of Canadians stormed onto Juno Beach being led by the Third Canadian Infantry Division and supported by the Second Canadian Armoured Brigade among others. They suffered over 1,000 casualties, including 359 that were killed on that day. Through all this, D-Day helped overturn Nazi occupation from Western Europe and led the way for the ensuing Allied victory. There were Canadians that fought during the war who came from all over the country to protect our nation’s freedom; some even from our own Village of Islington. And so, while the war was being fought overseas, life back home in Canada still had to keep on going. This is where our former Village of Islington resident Harold Shipp steps into the picture. Harold’s family moved to The Kingsway, south of Bloor Street area with his family in the fall of 1941 when he was 14, and was enrolled as a student of Etobicoke High School (present day’s Etobicoke Collegiate Institute.) Recollecting on his old high school, he says, “Etobicoke High School was much smaller than my previous school I attended. It had only 300 students in 12 rooms and a staff of 12 people. Andrew Wallace was the principal, a great math teacher and was always known to the students as, ‘The Boss’. No one called him that to his face of course. But he was the best principal any one could ever have.” continued on page 05
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