Toronto Beaches Lacrosse Club (TBLC) celebrates their 50th anniversary this year, marking a moment in history for a club and sport that has touched generations of Beach families. While 50 years is an impressive milestone, it is a relatively short time in comparison to the hundreds of years lacrosse has been played. According to the […]
In the Centenary of the First World War being marked between 2014 and 2018, no date will be more talked about than April 9, 1917, the day Canadian troops successfully attacked a seven-kilometre stretch of Northern France known as Vimy Ridge. Apart from the fact that upwards of 25,000 people are expected to travel to […]
The author fled her home country of Hungary in 1956 when she was in her mid-twenties. This is the story of her daring escape, the second of a two-part feature. Read part one here. First, we split up. Seven individuals are harder to spot than a large group. We agreed to meet at the station […]
