Aug. 30, 2023: Updated Brian Lapierre's biography, per email from him, in this document.
Aug. 8, 2023: Revised items on the LINKS page. Major revision was to Application For Canadian Military Service Information.
June 27, 2023: Revised code for the 3 sortable census listings so they display properly on any size device, and so headers are frozen at the top of the listings on wide and narrow screens.
June 22, 2023: Added complete name of Michael (Max) Wood to one of Brian Lapierre's photos, per email from him. Page is here.
April 14, 2023: Added 1945 crew photo with names, of HMCS Minas, to History Section,
per emails from Patrick Gillespie.
April 14, 2023: Added link to 1945 Navy List, to Links section, per email from Patrick Gillespie.
March 20, 2023: Revised HMCS Drumheller page (below) – replaced crew photo with
a complete, un-cropped version and added photo of unofficial version of Drumheller's crest, both per
Bill Gard and Don Ambler.
March 16, 2023: Added photo of crew of HMCS Drumheller to
History section per email from Bill Gard.
Feb. 23, 2023: Added photo of C&PO's mess on HMCS Forest Hill to
History section per email from Bill Gard.
Feb. 21, 2023: Various updates – contact-berbeck.htm and dobie-index.htm.
Dec. 11, 2021: Added a new item to Bert von Kalckreuth's section, per emails from him. New item
consists four photos of HMCS Cornwallis Columbia 2/62 Division assault course, provided by Heinz Zollner, plus many names from Bert.
Dec. 7, 2021: Corrected transposed names of Gordon Hunter and Roger Laye in
file hunter-restigouche.htm per email from Brian Lapierre.
Dec. 2, 2021: Added crew photo of HMCS Iriquois to history section.
Photo and text copied from Facebook post by CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum.
Nov. 16, 2021: Added complete list of names of Columbia Division, 1962 Sunset Guard, in file
beattie-cornwallis-columbia-division-1962.htm per
email from Bert vonKalckreuth. Also experimented with new photo and caption formats with this page.
Nov. 11, 2021: Added name of PO Perks to photo of crew of HMCS Carlplace in
history section item, per email from his gt-grandson, Jonathan Whitson.
Nov. 10, 2021: Added name of Lt. Cdr. Eric Boak to photo of crew of HMCS Sioux, in
history section item, per email from his daughter, Erica Dabrowski.
Aug. 2, 2021: Added 2 links to naval records to the top of the Links page.
July 28, 2021: Removed The Memory Project box from the main index page per request from them, as the deadline for submissions has passed.
July 28, 2021: Corrected a name in various files in Brian Lapierre's section, per email from him.
June 10, 2021: Revised html code for single and double portraits in all sections with portraits in their intro text. Also tweaked widths of some of the boxes.
June 10, 2021: Added the box for The Memory Project to the main index page, per request from them.
June 4, 2021: Changed the width of the index page to 80% of screen width in wide screens. No change for anything smaller than 1500 pixels. Also changed
the html coding for the floating bulldog image.
April 29, 2021: Added 2 photos to history section at history-macmillan-hyacinthe-1943.htm.
One is of HMCS St Hyacinthe 1943 telegraphry course, and the other is an unknown group.
April 25, 2021: Added names and extra photo to HMCS Ribble item in Wes Clark's section, per email from Mark Lancaster.
April 11, 2021: Added name of John MacMillan to history item about HMCS Chilliwack, per email from his son Jamie.
Link: history-chilliwack-1944.htm.
April 3, 2021: Added a new photo to history item about HMCS Chilliwack, and removed link to Gordon Mumford's
Merchant Navy website from the same item, as it now displays Chinese characters. Link: history-chilliwack-1944.htm.
Nov. 9, 2020: Added name Arthur Longbottom to the group photo of HMCS Chilliwack, in file history-ix.htm.
Nov. 9, 2020: Added name of Tom Bertie Robinson, and re-formatted the caption under the group photo of HMCS Sioux.
Nov. 9, 2020: Added a link to a YouTube video by Peter Pronych, to the end of the history section.
Nov. 7, 2020: Added 16 more photos to Colin Murdo Nicolson's section, as for some reason I had failed to add them to the index.
Nov. 6, 2020: Added a new section, with 86 photos and a diary by Colin Murdo Nicolson, all from HMCS Sioux in WW2.
Nov. 6, 2020: Added a link to Application for Canadian Military Service Information to the links section.
Nov. 6, 2020: Removed the notice of the Columbia 2/62 Sunset Guard reunion.
Oct. 19, 2020: Added the name of Garth O'Neil Kennedy to the group photo of HMCS Chilliwack,
as well as added the caption of a newspaper clipping, replacing the torn caption of the existing image.
Oct. 19, 2020: Added a new name and a numbered version of the group photo of HMCS Sioux in 1944, sent in by Eric Nicolson, in this item.
Oct. 19, 2020: Revised the "Back to Main Menu" link in each Xmas Card to point to originating link. See Section.
Sept. 10, 2020: Added another item to the Health & Welfare section of the links page. Also changed address of Donald Courcy's website navy-links.htm.
Sept. 8, 2020: Added two items to the Health & Welfare section of the links page navy-links.htm.
Aug. 26, 2020: Added a new section, with 3 photos, for Roger Rayner.
Aug. 19, 2020: Added a "Volunteers" section to the Links page navy-links.htm.
Aug. 11, 2020: Added link to on-line CBC story about toxic mold, to "Toxic Mold" sub-section of the Major Health Issues section on the main index page.
Aug. 10, 2020: Corrected the ranks of two officers in the engine room of HMCS Ontario, in Ken Johnson's section.
Aug. 8, 2020: Added "lazy loading" of thumbnail photos to the main index plus to all individual index pages. Will introduce this feature to all
pages with many photos, as time permits. Also standardized the photo sizes of individual portraits in the main index page.
July 26, 2020: Added two Christmas cards to that section, sent to me by Ken Johnson.
July 26, 2020: Added a new photo sent to me by Ken Johnson, of his father and Archie Leitch, to his section.
June 24, 2020: Added a new section for William Killam photos of HMCS Cobalt.
June 22, 2020: Added a new Documents Section, listing all the existing documents and lists on this website.
Kept the original document links in their original sections.
June 19, 2020: Corrected the surname of Reginald Vincent Bankes in
a Beacon Hill history item per email from his son, James Bankes.
May 31, 2020: Added arrows to links to external websites. Also changed the focused link frame to red orange.
May 26, 2020: Added two new collections to Brian Lapierre's section, for a total of 79 new photos.
May 21, 2020: Added an improvement to all pages for people with visual problems or who can't use a mouse. When a link has "focus"
(is ready to be clicked or
tapped) it is enclosed in a red frame. Hitting the Tab key will advance to the next link, while hitting "Shift-Tab" will go back to the previous link.
Hitting the "Return" ("Enter") key will
be the same as clicking on the link. This doesn't work in older versions of Microsoft Edge, but works in versions updated after May, 2020.
May 20, 2020: Revised text of intro to Raymond E. Gard's section to reflect the death date of his eldest brother Fred Gard.
May 10, 2020: Revised Carl Ash's email address, per email from him at this address.
Apr. 23, 2020: Added a photo sent me by Terry Findlay, to his section at index.htm#findlay.
Apr. 11, 2020: Added two sets of photos (54 photos total) to Brian Lapierre's section at lapierre-ix.htm.
Dec. 7, 2019: Added the "Seasons Greetings" logo to the main page.
Dec. 7, 2019: Removed Grant Sinclair's contact info from his items (has he passed?) index.htm#sinclair
Nov. 25, 2019: Added date info for Columbia 2/62 Division 2020 reunion (in box at top of website) per email from Bert VonKalckreuth.
Nov. 20, 2019: Added death info for Douglas Comber to his section at index.htm#comber
Oct. 16, 2019: Added links to a page of links on the canadianasbestosexports.ca website, to Canadian news stories,
and to a page of their links to international news stories about asbestos, in the "Major Health Issues" box at the top of the index page.
Oct. 10, 2019: Added a link to the mouldy mattress story published by the CBC, in the "Major Health Issues" box at the top of the index page.
Sept. 25, 2019: Added more info about Henry Layard Street, and added an email link for
Henry Paul Street, to History Section item, at: hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm.
Sept. 24, 2019: Added info about Henry Layard Street, to History Section item,
per his grandson, Henry Paul Street,
at: hmcs-niobe-1911-crewlist.htm.
Sept. 23, 2019: Made some CSS file changes to support very wide screens.
Sept. 21, 2019: Created this Update Log and added it to rcnhistory.org.
Sept. 5 & 6, 2019: One of William Dalton Johnston's pages was revised to reflect new info on
YMT Olympic, provided by Ralph Currell.
Link is history-johnston-niobe.htm.
Sept. 4, 2019: Correction of the name Archie Menzies, in one of the Esquimalt Museum's pages,
at: museum-princerobert-crew.htm.
Aug. 23, 2019: Addition of Neil Corfield to photo in one of Dave Tyson's pages.
Info provided by Barry Walker. Link is tyson-cornwallis01.htm.
Aug. 8, 2019: Added an item to the Links Section, at: navy-links.htm.
July 29, 2019: Added item to history section, courtesy of Earl Storey: "HMCS Cornwallis, Skeena 1/68 Division",
at: history-skeena-1-68-storey.htm.
Aug. 10, 2018: Added page to history section, submitted by Kerr Anderson:
"British Armed Trawler, WW1", at: history-forbes.htm.
Aug. 6, 2018: Revision to one of Edmund Ferris's pages, "HMCS Pictou". It was finally determined that the photo is of
HMCS Pictou and not HMS Primula.
Link is: ferris-primula.htm.
Aug. 3, 2018: Page added to Ernest Harold Massick's section: "HMCS Beacon Hill",
at: massick-beaconhill.htm.
July 24, 2018: Added names to one of Jim Thorn's pages. Names sent by
Marty Byzewski, of men from St Laurent 2.62 who were posted to
Comm Research in HMCS Gloucester, fall of 1962, at: thorn-cornwallis-stlaurent-1962.htm.
July 6, 2017: One of Ken Lloyd's pages; the final word, provided by Yvan Martineau, on id of HMCS Ontario or
HMCS Quebec in this photo. Link is lloyd-ontario.htm.