Departure from Halifax
19.00 hrs
driving to North Sydney NS
(405 km)
Stop at a Petro-Canada Station
driving all night
Arrival in North Sydney Harbour
05.30 in the morning
Performance on Board
of the MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood
18-7-05 / 21.00 hrs
Impressions of St.John's
Newfoundland
Top Photo:
Looking out over the Bay
Picture taken from The Battery Hotel and Suites
100 Signal Hill Rd, St. John's NL
Sponsor of the St.John's Jazz Festival
left: Kirk Newhook
Executive director, St.John's Jazz Festival
Atlantic Jazz Initiative
Right: director of the Rooms
The Rooms has become
Newfoundland's most high-profile art institution
left to right
Mr. Ralph Wells
1st Vice President, RCL Branch 56, Pleasantville
Mr. John Ford
WWII Veteran
Mr. Paul Shelley
Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
Mr. Loyala Hearn
member of Parlement
St. John's South / Mt. Pearl
Mr. Andy Wells
Mayor of St. John's NL
TV interview with Mr. Loyala Hearn
member of Parlement
St. John's South / Mt. Pearl
Mr Ralph Wells
1st Vice President
Royal Canadian Legion - Pleasantville Branch
Branch 56
His Worship Mr. Andy Wells
Mayor of St. John's , NL
receiving a Tulip Friendship Garden in honor of the
WWII Veterans
Mr. John Ford - WWII Veteran
Royal Air Force Aircraftsman 1st Class.
served with Dutch
forces in Singapore until Japan seized the
country of Indonesia. "On March 8, 1942 I was captured in Java,
made a prisoner of war, and transported on a coal trap with no food,
latrine or medical supplies.
Overcrowding forced us to sleep on top of one another.
I was imprisoned in Singapore for 3-4 months then transported
to Formosa (Taiwan) and finally Nagasaki, Japan.
World War II Japan
didn’t recognize the Geneva Convention’s
provision for humane treatment of POW’s. In October I became
a dockyard slave… along with 400-500 Dutchmen. 65% of my
workgroup died from starvation, disease, beatings, and slave labour.
Paid 5 cents a day and charged for 3 bowls of only rice with no meat,
fish or vegetables, I went from 175 lbs to 93 lbs.
Allied landing upon Japan meant extermination of POW’s August 9, 1945 was set for our execution by machine guns.
My life was saved when 73 000 other people were killed… the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered.
I returned home from Japan on July 1946 – 5 years 11 months and 11 days after entering the service and having slaved for 3 ½ years as a POW. The only Newfoundlander, and since Canadian, to witness and survive an atomic bomb explosion from 7 miles away…I have suffered 4 battles with skin cancer due to radiation. I hope that another atomic or nuclear weapon is never used, but I am glad for those that were. They ended the war.
We would have been shot and 2-3 million Japanese would have died from starvation if it had been prolonged. I wish the world could live in peace and quiet, have no part of arms, and not begrudge what others have. Unbridled greed, with today’s nuclear weapons, could bring about the end of creation.
What’s being accomplished by the world’s state of violence?
Absolutely nothing! Destruction and torment. I am 86 years old now and I am thankful for everyday that I live my life freely without a rifle and bayonet stuck in my back. I hope that everyone, whether civilian, military or government, recognizes the sacrifices that veterans have made. Unless you lose your freedom you don’t know what you have.
Story (Interview)Transcribed and edited by Kirk Newhook.
Everybody ready for the music
A great relaxed audience
Quinten being interviewed for local TV
Mr. Wayne Cook
Would like to pay tribute to his father
the late private R.C.Cook
Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers
RCEME
Liberator of the Netherlands
the trio
Ms. Sharon Pippy
Chair. of the Atlantic Jazz Initiative
Thank you for taking care of us
love and arguements
location
Channel 6 - 18.00 hrs
impressions of St. John's NL
Mr. Herb Hopkins
Site coordinator Jazz Festival
Board of directors - Atlantic Jazz Initiative
2nd performance at the St. John's Jazz Festival
Driving on board of the Ferry
08.30 in the morning
on our way to the main land
Finally spotting a whale
2nd Performance on Board
of the MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood
Thank you Marine Atlantic for supporting us
Arrival in North Sydney
Getting ready to drive to Burlington Ontario.
Sydney NS - Burlington ON: 2200 km
After a couple of hours we decided to stay
at the Valley Inn Motel in Wentworth NS
Wake up
During breakfast the humming birds
appeared in front of our windows
Driving to Montreal
driving to Burlington
Maria Pellitteri arrived at Toronto Airport
--- happy happy couple ---
Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival
at Spencer Smith Park
Mr. Rick Craven
City/ Regional Councillor - Ward 1
City of Burlington
receiving a Tulip Friendship Garden in honor
of the WWII Veterans
for His Worship Mr. Robert S. MacIsaac,
Mayor of Burlington, ON
Coordinator Mr. John Bolognone
Supervisor of Council and Committee Services
City of Burlington, ON
Siiting on a gift to Burlington (Twin city)
from his Worship Mr. de Graaf,
Mayor of Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
left to right
Bobby Hebert
Artistic Director, Burlington Jazz and Blues Festival
Don Lachance
General Manager
Burlington Jazz and Blues Festival
Thank you for a wonderful festival
Mr. Allan Lancefield
WWII Veteran
A couple of us took the German flag off the city hall in Assen.
We took it down, and I took it home, and kept it for a number of years,
but then my wife had me get rid of it.
Interview with Private Allan Ted Lancefield – April 2005.
From one end to the other, from the Scheldt to Groningen
and then down the Rhineland.
I was with the 2nd Division, the Essex Scottish Regiment.
1945 we were in Germany.
We entered Holland in September of 1944, at Putten.
There’s many stories back in my head.
It was the infantry and it was nothing but fighting,
I drove a small tank. We towed an anti-tank
LIBERATOR OF THE NETHERLANDS
Mr. Bill Rose - WWII Veteran
US Merchant Marines / Pacific 1944
(was wounded in the engine room)
the show
Bas and Louise
Thank you for cooking up an incredible dinner.