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Then you come home “Whenever you place their world ranking. Those ing to Canadian crowds, is Hole points out that and training again, we’re and have to teach a Can- in an international event with enough points will be the fact that they continue Johnston hails from Ha- just like everyone else,” Skate group, and they just of any kind, you gain in- eligible for the Olympics in to do the majority of their miota, Manitoba, and is says Lawrence. “And see you as their coach. ternational recognition 2014. training from the heart happy to play a role in the that’s how we like it. We “We’re still just the peo- because the results of that Lawrence and Swieg- of the Prairies in Virden, young Prairie team’s train- wouldn’t want it any other ple having fun, playing competition are taken back ers say they are aiming for Manitoba. ing. way.” around at the rink.” to each of the countries,” Sochi, Russia in 2014. “What separates them is says Swiegers. “So placing “Our long-term goal— that these two have chosen at an international event Paige and I would to not to go to the city,” says does take you up a step on compete and place in the Hole. “They have chosen the ladder.” Olympics,” says Swieg- to stay here and that’s un- “I think any medal only ers. “That’s what it’s really heard of.” helps you boost your repu- all about, that’s the top, Hole, who has lived in tation or name in the skat- top level of skating in the Virden for 20 years, has ing community,” says Law- world. never coached skaters to rence. “It helps us get our “For now, our goal is the level that Lawrence and name more widely known this season, but come 2014, Swiegers have reached. 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BY KARA KINNA and were impoverished, volved with the enemy on was missing in her life. In 1945 a Canadian and Calder’s father did a personal level?’ and the She just wanted to meet soldier named Edmund what he could to ensure answer was always ‘no,’ these people.” Joseph Donais did some- the family had enough and I started to realize that Armed with a few pho- thing unlikely while he food. Soon, he became an my father’s situation was tographs and letters, but was stationed in Leer, Ger- integral part of the fami- different.” few names, Calder began many during the Second ly’s life and a close friend. Calder says her father— a search for the family. She World War—he befriend- Calder says she under- who hailed from Alida, eventually found the fam- ed and supported a Ger- stands why her father felt Saskatchewan and later ily that her father had be- many family that not only compelled to help. lived in Tilston, Manito- friended, and her brother struggled to feed them- “My dad was missing ba—was known as a gen- accompanied her mother selves, but struggled with his own three little boys erous man back home in to Germany for a visit with the devastation caused by in Alida,” she says. “He his Prairie communities, the only remaining fam- the war. didn’t know what they and she’s not surprised ily member—the eldest Now, 55 years later, the looked like or sounded that he took a German of the five children. Their daughter of that soldier— like. They didn’t know family under his wing re- visit was videotaped, and Marie Donais Calder—has their daddy. He didn’t gardless of the criticism he afterwards, Calder began taken up her father’s story know how long he would would have received. to correspond with the of friendship as a message be gone. In her books, she out- daughter by letter. of peace. Calder, who lives “When he met Johann, lines her father’s stubborn Calder, a former Kinder- in Estevan, Sask. has writ- he was obviously starv- insistence that, despite garten teacher, had never ten a series of novels in- ing, and my Dad’s heart the atrocities of the Nazis written a novel before— Author Marie Donais Calder with a necklace spired by her father’s gen- just reached out to him. I during the Second World only children’s books up to that her father made during the Second World erosity in a time of strife. can just imagine so clearly War‚ the family he had be- that point. But after a visit War. The necklace makes an appearance in “As I started to write, what happened when my friended were just normal to a writer in residence in it became apparent that it dad saw Johann. I can see people struggling with the Estevan, she was inspired Calder’s fifth book. Calder keeps the necklace was my job now to tell the my dad going without devastation of war, and to begin writing. around her neck at all times. stories and there are going food to save them (the deserved as much assis- While writing the books to be times when it’s very family). That’s how Dad tance and respect as any- came relatively easy to In 2006 when Calder had and to multiple genera- difficult telling these sto- was. He always put others one else. Calder, publishing them submitted her manuscript tions. I am excited about ries, but I’m going to do before himself.” Her books follow the proved to be much hard- to Borealis Press, the com- the idea that our young it,” says Calder. Calder’s father came to twists and turns of life in er. pany was in the process of people and older people Calder began working know the German fam- wartime Germany through “In 2002 I started sub- moving into a new office. are finding something in on The Other Side series in ily intimately and was the eyes of her father and mitting to publishers and Four boxes of manuscripts common in the books. I’m 2001. She has completed involved in their lives the German family, even- getting rejection letters,” that were supposed to be feeling that these books are tually coming to a point she says. delivered were instead finding a common ground when her father must re- One of those publishers left in the corner of a mov- and a common language, turn to Canada, and leave was Borealis Press in Ot- ing company warehouse, and the younger people the German family be- tawa. where they sat for two are appreciating what the hind. The books continue After being rejected by years until someone final- older people have done.” to explore the fallout of publisher after publisher, ly found them and deliv- Calder says her books war for both the German in 2006 Calder decided to ered them to their proper are about peace, not war. family and Calder’s father submit her manuscripts location. “These books are not after he leaves. one last time all of the Ca- Frank Tierney, the vice about war, they are about picking up the pieces that are left when you’ve been “In our world we are so caught up with negativ- through a tragedy or trau- ma, and that can apply to ity, and yet there is a lot of good out there. I know my life and your life. In this case it was war.” my dad lived to his dying day doing good things, Calder says she wants to share the message of sacrificing himself and putting others first.” her books with rural com- munities on the Prairies —Marie Donais Calder because her parents were rural Prairie people. She Calder says the experi- nadian publishers. Still, president of the company, has done numerous school ence of leaving the family she had no luck. had opened those boxes presentations and book behind was a painful one “In 2008 I thought my and found Calder’s man- signings in small towns for her father, as he wor- father was a Saskatch- uscript. “He said he only around Saskatchewan ried about what would ewan soldier, I’m going had two chapters of The and Manitoba. She will become of the family, who to submit again to the two Other Side of War, and can be doing a book signing had already suffered at the Saskatchewan publishers, you send me more manu- and reading at the Manor hands of Polish soldiers. and I was rejected,” she scripts,” says Calder. library on Nov. 17 and at A photo of Edmund Joseph Donais, who be- “Dad was hurting,” says says. “I felt absolutely the Cozy Nook in Tilston, friended and cared for a German family during Calder. “He knew when he Calder was not only re- stunned,” says Calder. Man. on Nov. 21. left Germany he was leav- jected, she was dejected. “You know how you have Calder says her father the Second World War. Marie Donais Calder ing that family in jeopardy. “When that happened, I those days in your life that was a good man who al- has based her novels on the story of her fa- In 1946, a letter from Carla gave up in 2008 and I quit change your life? Well, this ways took care of others. ther’s kindness in the face of adversity, and (one of the family mem- writing the novels,” she was a life-changing day.” Now that he is gone, she the devastation caused by war for ordinary bers) confirmed that. says. “I had three com- Calder signed a contract says, it is her responsibil- “I think for him it must pletely written, and the with Borealis Press. More ity to carry his goodness people. have been just excruciat- fourth one was started, than 1,500 copies of her forward with her stories. ing. And like so many but my character had shell book The Other Side of War “My father died young,” four books to date, and is as both a caregiver and men, he didn’t talk about shock and so did I. have now been printed, she says. “I feel like my fa- working on the fifth book a friend—something he the horrors of war, but to “I just couldn’t get go- and the book has gone to ther was kind of like the in the nine-book series. took flack for from his fel- my mother he talked a lot ing on it.” its second printing. Olympic flame. His love Two of the books have low soldiers in both the about the German family.” Then something unusu- Calder says her books shone through, and even been published, and the book, and in real life. Al- Calder says it was her al happened. Two years have found a common when he was gone, his third book is set to come though her father is long mother’s actions at age 81 later, in February of 2010, ground for both the young love was left behind for out this month. gone, Calder says, years that inspired her to write on her little brother’s and old, and she is sur- us, and I’m going to carry The series is part fact, later, as she began doing about her father’s experi- birthday, Calder was in prised by the reaction that torch. I feel that I was part fiction, based on her research for her books, she ence in Leer. Florida where she spends readers of all ages have to handed a torch, and it’s father’s real experience realized just how unique “In 1998, she was 81 part of the year when she the books. my mission to carry that with a German family in her father’s actions were years old, and she really received a phone call from “For me every day is torch and to spread the 1945. The first book starts during the Second World felt that she had one thing someone Borealis Press. Remembrance Day,” she goodness. in 1945 when her father War. left in life she wanted to “Imagine my surprise,” says. “With my stories, my “In our world we are so met and befriended a “I started getting inter- do, and that was meet the she says. “I could hardly readers are experiencing caught up with negativ- 10-year-old German boy ested in my dad’s role. I family that Dad spoke of believe my ears when he an appreciation of the sac- ity, and yet there is a lot of (named Johann in the didn’t know how unique when he came home from said ‘This is Frank from rifices of our soldiers and good out there. I know my book) while stationed in it was,” she says. “I start- Germany,” she says. Borealis press and I owe their families every day. dad lived to his dying day Leer, Germany. Johann ed asking Canadian sol- “He died many years you an apology. You sub- “These novels are bring- doing good things, sacri- and his family had suf- diers ‘When you served ago, but that was kind of mitted some manuscripts ing the essence of Remem- ficing himself and putting fered greatly from the war, overseas, did you get in- like a piece of him that back in 2006.’ ” brance Day to the forefront others first.” November 2010 Plain and Valley 7 The big world of small town monuments
BY CHRISTALEE FROESE given up on the town sur- There are a lot of big viving and in other places things in a lot of small the town will never disap- towns. pear because the residents Take the giant Indian’s just won’t let it. Sometime, head in Indian Head, Sas- when you are in the neigh- katchewan or the towering bourhood of a “Big Thing,” Moose in Moose Jaw, Sas- stop by, take a look, buy katchewan. something and help the These welcoming statues town survive. make sense—they’re fabu- So, in retrospect, I have lous, fitting and fun. to say that I was drawn into But when does fun be- Bow Island, Vauxhall and come too much fun and not Melita largely because of enough fabulous? their mascots. And, while Maybe when you put a there, I did stop at the Vaux- cowboy hat on a pinto bean hall Co-op to buy some road (Bow Island, Alberta), a snacks, I did eat a wonder- flower in the hair of a danc- ful homemade meal in Me- ing potato (Vauxhall, Alber- lita and I did stop in Bow ta) or a bird in the hand of a Island for gas. banana (Melita, Manitoba). And while I am still ex- Now, you can call me an tremely tempted to write unfair judger of fruits and a short diatribe entitled, veggies with arms and legs, “how not to treat your but when town mascots of town statue” (ie: no hats, the edible variety cross over heads or hands), you can’t to dress like human “beans,” really argue with success. that’s where I draw the line The fact that I purchased a between fabulous and not- Diet Coke while taking an so fabulous. “out-of-my-way” trip to My curiosity in town stat- Vauxhall to see Sammy and ues was piqued recently by Samantha Spud in person is a CBC radio interview with enough to kill any plausible David Yanciw who has a argument I could have to website featuring many of the contrary. Canada’s “big deals” in the Plan on dear towns, mak- area of small-town monu- Christalee Froese photo ing your town statue any ments. Sammy and Samantha Spud cheerfully welcome visitors to Vauxhall, Saskatchewan. old thing that attracts at- And while I am tempted tention—even if it’s an “ap- to target some tacky statues, pealing” banana! Yanciw makes the point that Aaron the Blue Heron in Whether they have actu- What I do know is that this small prairie communi- all town mascots are a sign Barrhead, Alberta or Josiah ally recouped their invest- town created a reason for ties and I am amazed at Christalee Froese welcomes of survival, whether it’s Flintabbatey Flonatin (no ment in erecting it (world’s being. In my work, I have the differences in attitude comments at Lcfroese@sasktel. Walter the whooping crane kidding) in Flin Flon, Mani- largest pirogy in Glendon, had many opportunities you come across. In some net or visit www.westwords. in Govan, Saskatchewan, toba. Alberta), I do not know. to work with and analyze places, everyone there has net.
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They’ve got the “I can see why people in Wawota are south, and couldn’t come to comes to the clinic or the closed at Deer View Lodge facility. an agreement, and decided hospital,” he said. “Some in Wawota—in the Sun “They’ve got five ex- crushed by this.” to open the beds at Broad- clinics in Estevan closed Country Health Region—a cellent trained registered —Dr. Michael Plewes view to take the pressure their practices, forced peo- Moosomin physician says nurses. I can see why peo- off Moosomin’s facility. ple to come up north. It put the the Regina Qu’Appelle ple in Wawota are crushed Plewes said Moosomin’s patients in a bind. None of Health Region is taking pa- by this.” physicians absorbed a when Moosomin hospital acute care beds are almost those doctors will see them tients who cannot be han- Plewes said the local phy- lot more files with the re- gets full we will be mov- always full. there. We have not refused dled in Sun Country. sicians have been in discus- duction of services in the ing patients over to Broad- “We’re pretty much al- anyone.” Dr. Michael Plewes told sions with the RQHR over northeast part of the Sun view. It will be primarily ways full,” he said. “This RQHR spokesman Bill the World-Spectator that how to handle the overload Country Health Region, Redvers, Maryfield, and morning we’re only 95 per Carney said Friday that Moosomin’s South East of patients. “We have been partly because clinics in Wawota patients going, so cent full.” the announcement had not Integrated Care Centre is meeting with our district Estevan closed their doors these beds at Broadview He said Moosomin’s been made about open- often about 30 per cent oc- over the last few months, to new patients. will help make up for the physicians absorbed a ing the beds at Broad- cupied by patients from the and they will be opening “We’ll see anybody who closed beds at Wawota.” lot more files with the re- view, but “it’s in the works Sun Country Health Region five beds in Broadview so comes to the clinic or the He said doctors raised duction of services in the to ease overcapacity at and the Regina Qu’Appelle when Moosomin hospital hospital,” he said. “Some the issue with RQHR be- northeast part of the Sun Moosomin.” Health Region is plan- gets full we will be mov- clinics in Estevan closed cause of the influx of Sun Country Health Region, He expected an an- ning opening five beds at ing patients over to Broad- their practices, forced peo- Country patients. partly because clinics in nouncement on the beds Broadview to handle the view. 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BY KEVIN WEEDMARK Crossing the English Small Prairie communities supplied many of the sail- channel on their way ors, soldiers and airmen who fought for Canada during out, one of their four the Second World War. engines suddenly cut Drop into any small town Legion or church and you will out, and for 20 minutes usually see a roll of honor from the two World Wars that they were fl ying on the make it appear that every young man went off to war. remaining three. Bud Hoey and his older brother James grew up in Kel- “With our full load so, which—like every Prairie town—was to provide more of mines I couldn’t than its share of young men for the war effort. maintain height,” said James Hoey, in centre, with part of the “My dad was section foreman,” Bud Hoey explains. Hoey. “It looked as if we would have to put our dinghy “Kelso was really something then. It had two good gro- drill into action. We fl ew along for about 20 minutes, los- Stirling bomber crew he led. cery stores, a cafe, a station agent, a butcher shop, two ing height, then just as suddenly, it started again. We felt passenger trains a day, and a lot of freight trains. very happy, but the incident put us all on our toes.” But his language was still nothing compared with the “On a Saturday night, people would come to Kelso. Sat- It was just after their mines had gone that the JU88 at- rear gunners, who again saw the crew’s leave endan- urday night was a big night. Hambleton brothers had a tacked, and seven men began to wonder if they would get gered. But a day or two afterwards the crew took off once store. It was Oscar Hambleton nicknamed me Bud.” that leave. more, this time in daylight. Objective: London. Method of Why Bud? “I really admired my brother. I really looked The night was clear. A half moon shone from the port attack: All out. up to him. Whenever he was home on leave he gave me beam, and white clouds 3,000 feet below made a pattern 25 cents. I would go to the store and buy 25 cents worth with the darkness beneath them. Once they recovered from their R and R in London, the of Maple Buds, so the store owner started calling me Bud. The rear gunner saw the JU88 coming up from dead crew was airborne again, but the bombing run that dark I guess it stuck.” astern. night in 1943 would have a different outcome. At 100 yards, it started to fi re and red tracer from its It was June 24, 1943. The Sterling Mark III bomber was James Hoey applied to join the Royal Canadian Air guns passed close by the bomber. loaded up with incendiary bombs and sitting on the tar- Force in June of 1941. On the advice of the recruiting of- Hoey did evasive action — “Some I invented myself, I mac at Downham airfi eld. fi cer, he applied to be a pilot. On his air force application think”—and made for the cloud cover below. James Hoey was to pilot the fl ight, but on this occasion form, he noted his mechanical and woodworking skills he had a second pilot on board. and wrote that he had no experience fl ying—not even as It was not unusual to send new a passenger. pilots on a raid with an expe- However, the recruiting offi cer who interviewed Hoey rienced crew before their fi rst noted that James was confi dent and sincere, and reported bombing raid. that he “Appears to be somewhat reserved . . . however Many crews resented having may develop into a good type for air crew, after a little anyone on board other than preliminary training.” their own crew as they felt it was unlucky or would upset the cohesion of the crew. Left: Bud and his older brother James Hoey and his crew took off at 23:43. Their bomber was pose for a photo on March 8, 1942. among 630 aircraft that took off from southeastern Eng- Right: Bud in his child-size air force land that night, bound for the uniform, worn with pride. Eberfeld district of Wuppertal, Germany. Another district of the industrial town had been Sometimes Bud would get a visit from his brother at the destroyed in May, and the ob- most unexpected times. jective this night was to demol- “When Jim was in Yorkton training on Tigermoths, I ish the Eberfeld district of the would be out playing by the section house, and once in town. a while a Tigermoth would come just roaring down and As those 630 planes headed fl y right between the water tower and the house,” Bud south and east, hundreds of recalls. German night fi ghters were be- “It was Jim. He wasn’t supposed to do that, but he did ing prepared to meet them at that a few times.” airfi elds across the Channel. Of Several family photos show Bud and his older brother those 630 planes, 34 would not posing together, James in his Royal Canadian Air Force return that night. uniform and Bud in a child-size uniform. On one of those German “My mother bought that for me and I wore it with airfi elds, Hans Authenreith pride,” Bud says. “I wanted to be just like Jim. I guess he was preparing to intercept the was my hero.” bombers in his Messerschmidt 110. Hoey had led his crew After James Hoey enlisted in 1941, he trained at Pen- on 14 successful bombing and hold, Alta., Calgary, Edmonton, Prince Albert and York- We never reached it for before he had lost much height mining raids before this night. Authenreith had taken ton. He was sent overseas in May of 1942. the Cockney gunner had driven the Junker’s pilot away. down 13 Allied bombers before this night. A newspaper report tells the story of a bombing raid un- One long burst from his guns was all that was needed The German early warning radar stations picked up the dertaken by James Hoey and his crew on April 11, 1943: to send this hun about his business. “We’ll get our leave bombers, the night fi ghters were dispatched, and Authen- The wires on the intercom system sizzled and glowed after all maybe,” said the rear gunner. reith used his onboard radar to pick up individual bomb- red hot as a fl ow of picturesque incentive came through Before he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, Hoey ers and target them. from the rear turret. was a mechanic in a garage at Wawota. At 2 a.m. German time he picked up Hoey’s aircraft on “No blank blank blanking Jerry’s going to blanking But the 20-year-old six-footer seemed to the recruiting his radar and moved in for the attack. well stop our leave,” said the Cockney rear-gunner. offi cer to be the right type for a pilot. Authenreith would down his 14th Allied bomber that His four Browning guns were trained on the lithe shape “I’d never thought about fl ying until then,” Hoey re- night. of a Focke-Wulf 190, one of Germany’s deadliest night- calls, “but when the recruiting offi cer suggested it, I The Sterling bomber was hit and exploded in mid-air, fi ghters, and as he spoke he gave it a long, steady burst thought I’d have a try at it.” and the wreckage came down in a small village in Bel- from the four spitting guns. At the same time, from his He is the only Canadian in his crew, which he thinks gium. The following morning, Authenreith and his gun- turret above the fuselage of the Stirling, the mid-upper is the best in the squadron. Five gunner, another cockney, rapped out four stacato bursts of them are English. The sixth, the with his two brownings. fl ight engineer, is Scotch. Tracer from the FW 190 streamed past the bomber, but Although they returned safely the Londoner’s fi re was better aimed. What damage was after their combats with the JU88 done to the enemy fi gher isn’t known, but he had enough, and FW 190, the seven lads didn’t and immediately broke off his attempt to send those on get their leave right away. the bomber to a fl aming death instead of the leave they Two nights after the mine laying were due shortly to enjoy. trip, they took off for Duisburg, but A second FW 190 lurking well astern, evidently leav- not waiting this time until they got ing the dangerous work to his comrade, then made a half- as far as the English channel, one of hearted attempt to attack, but made a clumsy overshoot their engines cut out within a min- and disappeared without fi ring a shot. ute of their take off. Quick action It was the fi rst time the Canadian captain of this Stirling, was necessary, as they were only at 22-year-old Sgt. Jim Hoey of Kelso, had seen an enemy 200 feet altitute. fi ghter, though an hour before they had been attacked by Hoey reached for the jettison a JU88. toggle. Down came the cans of The crew’s leave was due to start almost any time after incendiaries they were carrying, they got back from this mine-laying trip far south in the and an irate chicken farmer spent Bay of Biscay, but as the hours passed it seemed to them the rest of the night digging whole fate was going to make it as tough as possible for them to roast chickens out of the embers of James Hoey piloted Short Stirling bombers like these during get away on that long-planned low-level on London. his henhouses. the Second World War. November 2010 Plain and Valley 17
The big brother, the tall pilot Bud Hoey looked up to as a hero, will be remembered.
James Hoey, at left, with his family, mother Margaret, father John, sister Merle, brother Johnny, and in front, his little brother Bud. ner visited the site to have photos taken with the wreck- talk to Anthony Leeds. age. “Anthony is from the Nanton area, so I told him The people of the village, Kaggevinne, buried the bod- I was up there to see the ies of the fallen airmen in the village cemetery. A photo of museum, and I told him about my the funeral shows a large crowd gathered around for the brother. He got home and went on funeral service. the internet, and found out that One curious 15-year-old Belgian boy explored the someone in Belgium was looking wreckage until he was chased away by a German soldier for information about him.” approaching on a bicycle. Luc Swinnen is an amateur his- torian in Belgium. It was his father The news of the downing of Hoey’s aircraft came to who explored the wreckage of Ho- rural Saskatchewan, like everything else, from the train ey’s plane after it came down, and station. had to run when a German soldier “Everybody got so when they saw the station agent came along. coming with a brown telegraph envelope they just froze Swinnen was looking for infor- because they knew it was bad news,” Bud recalls. mation on the airmen who had “I remember what the telegram said—missing, pre- been on the plane, as he is prepar- sumed dead. That’s all we heard for I don’t know how ing a book. long. You always have hope he’s going to be all right. You Emails have been going back and hope that maybe he was still alive, maybe a prisoner of forth between Moosomin and Bel- war. It was a long time until they could tell us that he was gium as Swinnen, Hoey, and Leeds dead.” share the information they have. It was June 25, 1943 that James was reported missing. It The process has brought a lot of wasn’t until the following January that the air force could Second World War memories back confi rm to the family that he was killed that night over for Bud. “It has brought a lot of Belgium. memories back,” says Bud. “A lot of things I hadn’t thought about for years.” Top: The wreckage of Hoey’s plane at Kag- Bud says that, in the long years since the Second World gevinne, Belgium. War, the memory of his brother has been kept alive in Besides information that helped clarify exactly what various ways. In 1955 the provincial government named happened to James Hoey’s plane that dark night over Bel- Above: The pilot and gunner who shot down Hoey Lake, next to Uranium City, in his honor. A few gium, Swinnen was able to provide something tangible. years back, the Wawota Legion Branch put together a “He sent us part of the plane,” says Hoey. “I was real the Hoey’s bomber pose by the wreckage for binder of information on James. happy to get it.” Decades after his brother disappeared, a photo the following day. The pilot, Hans Au- Bud has something more tangible than a telegram—some- tenreith, is second from left with papers in his Then, two and a half years ago, Bud visited the Bomber thing he can hold in his hands that marks that night. hand. To the right is his gunner. Command Museum of Canada at Nanton, Alberta. Swinnen was able to provide Bud with a small piece of “Two and a half years ago, my boy asked me if I wanted a rudder hinge from the tail of the airplane. Villagers had to go to the bomber museum, and we went,” Bud says. saved it, and now half of it is in a museum in Belgium, “In front of the museum is a big memorial wall with all and half is in Hoey’s hands. the names of the Commonweath soldiers who were killed And the memory of James Hoey, besides being pre- in the bomber squadrons. There were 55,000 killed, and of served in Bud’s memory, on a few war memorials, and in those 10,000 were Canadian.” Bud was proud to fi nd his the name of a lake at the end of the runway at Uranium brother’s name on the memorial. City, will be preserved and honored in Luc Swinnen’s book. After Bud returned from Nanton, he ambled into the The big brother, the tall pilot Bud Hoey looked up to as Country Squire Inn for coffee one day and sat down to a hero, will be remembered.
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