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Hello Dear Fans, I have never really asked this before but with the crazy Covid plight I have created some gift cards on my website! If you know anyone who would like to attend a tour next season please consider supporting your local one woman tour company. These don't expire (in case 2021 is a nightmare too) and there is no tax added. Your devoted tour guide, Kristen... https://www.squarepegtours.ca See more

Did you know?.... Sonar was invented by a Canadian for WWl? When the Titanic tragically crashed into an iceberg in 1912, it highlighted the need to protect ships from collisions. That same year, innovative Canadian engineer Reginald Fessenden built an experimental sonar system known as the Fessenden oscillator. During World War 1, renowned Canadian physicist Robert Boyle was recruited by the British to find a way to detect German submarines. Building on Fessenden’s work, Boyle developed the first working prototype of sonar to be installed on warships in 1917. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada four years later.

Beautiful, Stoic, meaningful......

During the First World War, Dr. Cluny MacPherson, of St. Johns, NL, invents the gas mask, one of the most important protective devices. This innovation saved countless soldiers from blindness or throat and lung injury. Modern gas masks are used by first responders today.

Lest We Forget........

Did you know? Sanitary Napkins & Tissues were an invention of WWl? In 1914, Ernst Mahler, the head of a small US company called Kimberly-Clark, toured pulp and paper plants in Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia and spotted a new cellulose material called Cellucotton. It was five times more absorbent than cotton itself and, when mass-produced, half as expensive. Upon returning to the US, Mahler trademarked it; when the US entered the war in 1917, Kimberly-Clark started prod...ucing the wadding for surgical bandages. Meanwhile, enterprising Red Cross nurses started using it for their own personal hygienic use. Once the war ended, Kimberly-Clark re-purchased the surplus of bandages from the military and the Red Cross and created the first commercial sanitary napkins. The company also ironed out the cellulose material to make smooth tissues, which, in 1924, were released as the first facial tissues: Kleenex.

Another anniversary to mark!