How well do you know the Great Escape? Before answering, Beachers might wonder, which one? The true story, the Hollywood film, or the bookstore on Kingston Road? In the March 18 edition of the Beach Metro News, we spoke with historian Ted Barris, whose latest book tells the story of the many Canadians involved in […]
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70 years later, thrill of the Great Escape lives on
Maybe it’s in a museum now, but for a while Brian Floody’s father kept an old boot heel in the house, its underside carved by razor blade to mimic a Nazi rubber stamp. Maybe it once passed through the fingers of Jens Müller, a Norwegian pilot who trained in Canada, or Robert Buckham, a Toronto […]
