Marching past Canada Life Bldg – 1897

This painting by the watercolour artist Jos Biehn shows the 48th Highlanders in full scarlet dress uniforms marching south on University Avenue in front of the Canada Life Assurance Building. It is signed by the artist in the bottom left corner with the date 1897.

Liberation of Apeldoorn – April 1945

A 7 inch by 11 inch map # 11 drawn by Brigadier Eric Haldenby for the regimental history Dileas by Kim Beattie. The liberation of the Netherlands, from September 1944 to April 1945, played a key role in the culmination of the Second World War, as the Allied forces closed in on Germany from all […]

Oil Painting of Padre Stewart East, MBE, MC

A 16 inch (40.64 cm) by 20 inch (50.8 cm) oil painting of Honorary Captain the Reverend Stewart East.  “Padre East” landed with the Highlanders at Pachino on 10 July 1943 and served with them throughout Sicily and Italy, leaving in January 1945 as the unit was preparing to redeploy to Northwest Europe.  He and […]