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John Boileau

Retired army colonel John Boileau is an author, book reviewer and media commentator, specializing in military history. He has written several hundred magazine and newspaper articles and more than a dozen books. He is the honorary colonel of the Halifax Rifles, founding chairman of the Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society and a recipient of both the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and a Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia Vice-Regal Commendation for his contributions to the history of Nova Scotia.

Articles by John Boileau

Margaret Brooke

Alexander George Edwin Smith

Alexander George Edwin Smith

John Shiwak

David Kejick

Canadian Peacekeepers in the Balkans

Major Paul Triquet, VC

Paul Triquet, VC

David Greyeyes-Steele

Shannen Koostachin

Shannen Koostachin

Treaties in Ontario

Johnson-Butler Purchase

SS Caribou

Sinking of the SS Caribou

Sandra Perron

John Osborn

John Osborn, VC

Treaties in Ontario

Crawford Purchase

National Aboriginal Veterans Monument

Willard Bolduc

Louis Levi Oakes

Victoria Cross

Thomas Ricketts, VC

Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, VC

Canadian Peacekeepers in Haiti

Halifax Memorial

Robert Hampton Gray, VC

Charge of the Light Brigade

Alexander Dunn, VC

Joseph Benjamin Keeper

Joseph Benjamin Keeper

Angela Chalmers

Parliament Buildings

Merchant Navy of Canada

Gordon Flowerdew, VC

Gordon Flowerdew, VC

Hugh Cairns, VC

Hugh Cairns, VC

Menin Gate

Frederick Fisher, VC

Vimy Monument

Coulson Norman Mitchell, VC

Dieppe Raid

John Foote, VC

Dieppe Raid

Charles Cecil Merritt, VC

David Currie, VC

David Currie, VC

Charlie Martin

Charlie Martin

Gilbert Monture

Isabel Macneill

Isabel Macneill

George McLean

George McLean

Charles Henry Byce

Charles Henry Byce

National Aboriginal Veterans Monument

Leo Bouchard

Léo Major

National Aboriginal Veterans Monument

Samuel Glode

Huron Eldon Brant, 1943.

Huron Brant

Edwin Victor Cook

Edwin Victor Cook

Dr. Nadine Caron

Nadine Caron

107th cap badge

107th Timber Wolf Battalion

John Henry Yahba

William A. White