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Engineers in History - This is a series of articles regarding the endeavours of Canadian Military Engineers throughout history. Some articles have previously appeared in the CFB Chilliwack newspaper, The Mountaineer.

Landmine Database: One of the best.
Built on innovation - air reserve airfield engineers
Deadly Smoke - former DND firefighter a hero

Walter Berg World War II sapper

World War I engineer, World War II padre, now 102.

Interview with Brig-General Fitch. (Calgary Herald)

Peacekeepers depart Eritrea (DND news release)

Peacekeepers move out of Africa (Kingston Whig Standard)

WOII Leja (Maple Leaf)

First In, Last Out - Last CF member in Bosnia - (Maple Leaf)

Sappers sweep for mines (Maple Leaf)

Soldiers in the dark. Kuwait controversy continues (Halifax Daily News)

Response to Kuwait controversy (Letter to the editor)

Fantastic location - sappers in Eritrea (Maple Leaf)

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Naval Construction Troop helps with Camp. (Solicitor General Canada Web site)

Naval Construction Troop builds home (Maritime Command Web Site)

Military thanks Cominco for years of support

School named for peacekeeper (Echo)

Book honours town's war dead, including sapper (Ottawa Citizen)

Clearing Cambodia (Legion Magazine)

23 Field Engineer Squadron Diary - Op Kinetic, Kosovo Dec 99 - May/Jun 2000. (1 RCR BattleGroup Web Site)

Robotics and De-mining (Maple Leaf)

BC Couple Honoured For Anti-Landmine Work (Vancouver Sun)

A million mines, so little time (Maple Leaf)

Our Rescue Role At Arnhem (Legion Magazine)

Bridging a river in Italy - Memoir (Legion Magazine)

Airfield engineering team performs well in international competition (Maple Leaf)

RCE Band remembered. (Chilliwack Progress)

CANTECH - Aide, a new non government, non profit organization, that is designed to allow retired Engineers (Field, Construction, Fire, and Topographic ) and others to come together to work on projects around the world, as individuals or as groups.

Training for a hidden, silent threat (Maple Leaf)

A safe way to de-mine roads. (Maclean's)

Dolls legacy of fallen peacekeeper (Halifax Daily News)

Mine Awareness Training Area CFB Kingston, named after Sgt Stark, RCE.

Rougish Buoy 2000 (Kingston Whig Standard)

Review of Carrying On: Reaching Beyond 100. (Legion magazine)

Fort Saskatchewan soldier's job is full of minefields. (Edmonton Sun)

Combat engineer lived by motto: “First in, last out” - Brigadier-General Robert Jones passes away. (National Post)

Bosnia testing troops' patience (Edmonton Sun)

Soldier breaks language barrier (Esquimalt Lookout)

Canadian military closes East Timor headquarters as peacekeeping operations change.(CBC/Cdn Press)

Engineers help keep roads cleared of snow. (Toronto Sun)

Life continues on for the old Wet Gap (Chilliwack Times)

Old minefields continue to cause problems (Kingston Whig-Standard)

Engineer History (Vol III - History of the Canadian Military Engineers) on audio cassette (Chilliwack Progess)

Learning to live, move, and fight as combat engineers (Petawawa Post)

NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia has family ties to Almonte community (Almonte Gazette)

The demining of Cambodia: Half a million tons of bombs were dropped between 1969 and 1975 (Edmonton Journal)

Helping to rebuild; Moncton soldiers in East Timor (Fredericton Daily Gleaner)

All Around are Mines (Toronto Sun)

Sgt Michael Ralphs' mother remembers on Remembrance Day (Calgary Herald)

4 Engineer Support Regiment conducts bridge training (Fredericton Daily Gleaner)

Canadian Troops including Engineers deployed to East Timor (DND)

44 Field Engineer Squadron, Trail BC completes bridge for Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area, Creston BC. (Creston Valley Advance)

Day to Day life in Kosovo (Kitchener-Waterloo Record)

Russ Kennedy was a reconnaissance officer in the RCE and helped in the rescue of the more than 2,000 members of the British 1st Airborne Division trapped by the Germans at Arnhem during WWII. Kennedy received the Military Cross. (Kingston Whig-Standard)

Canadian combat engineers literally cleared the way for thousands of Bosnians returning home this summer.

The Canadian military's 200-member Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, has set up camp at a sports field in Serdivan, a suburb of Adapazari a city of 200,000 about 130 kms east of Istanbul. The Canadian relief operation has a clinic that can treat 500 outpatients daily and facilities to produce 100,000 litres of drinking water. (Macleans)

Lewis Mackenzie's column, Soldiers Risk Their Lives For Peace (3 July 99)
Death at their fingertips (Vancouver Province 23 Jun 1999)
Canadian troops headed to Kosovo are getting special training to prepare them for land mines and booby traps (Halifax Daily News, 21 June 1999)

Engineers name facility after fallen comrade. (Toronto Star, 21 June 1999)

Izzy Dolls are once again being handed out by Engineers in the Balkans (Vancouver Province, 15 June 1999)

Exercise Roughish Buoy, the annual Army diving exercise took place in February/March of this year.

Engineers have the job of keeping roads open (Fredericton Gleaner, 12 May 99)

The transcript of a radio interview between CBC Radio and Col. Dick Isabelle. Colonel Isabelle, a Military Engineer, is the contingent commander for the Canadian stabilization force in Bosnia. He spoke to the CBC from Valika, Kladusha. (1 April 199)

CFB Gagetown expanding including a new CFSME building. (The Fredericton Daily Gleaner 25 March 1999)
Engineers Help Complete Nature Trail

Brief History - This is a very brief history of the Canadian Military Engineers.

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