In their first
battle, the 85th (Nova Scotia Highlanders) Battalion, CEF captured
Hill 145 late in the afternoon of 9 April 1917. Hill 145 is the highest feature
on Vimy Ridge and now the site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. As I painted this picture I kept thinking about the young Canadians and the hell they endured. So many killed. So many wounded. All deeply affected. What would they tell us now, if they could, one hundred years later?
Richard Rudnicki's Historical Paintings
The Great Halifax Explosion, December 6, 1917 as seen from Citadel Hill moments after the explosion. The explosion and tidal wave in the harbour, the town destroyed and on fire, people swarming onto the hill and the Common in fear of a second explosion, many in need of immediate medical aid, and in the foreground soldiers of the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery.
King's Wharf, Halifax Harbour, 1814. A British frigate with officers, Royal Marine, Royal Navy and sailors. Disembarking are the Chesapeake Blacks they have rescued from slavery to undermine the American economy and for men to fight in the war.
Here's an article on them http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/results.asp?Search=&SearchList1=4&Language=English
Freedom Halifax, 1814 Sold |
The Quaker House story is here
http://www.dartmouthheritagemuseum.ns.ca/quaker-house/
Quaker House Sold |
HMCS Sackville, the last surviving WWII corvette, during the Battle of the Atlantic, escorting convoys and hunting and being hunted by German U-Boats.
Here's her story http://canadasnavalmemorial.ca/
A tip of my paint brush to the long line of military people among my ancestors. Scratch most people's family history and your find warriors. I'm interested in strong feelings and emotions, and military history has got it in spades.
Sackville Attacks Sold |
En Route -- The First Gulf War Sold HMCS Athabaskan, Terranova and Protecteur en route to the First Gulf War in 1991, as seen from a Sea King helicopter. |
The Great Amherst Mystery, a large mural created in collaboration with Susan Tooke.
This painting awoke my interest in subject matter from history.
For more on the process and information on the most well researched and unsolved haunting in the world see
http://thegreatamherstmystery.blogspot.ca/
This painting awoke my interest in subject matter from history.
For more on the process and information on the most well researched and unsolved haunting in the world see
http://thegreatamherstmystery.blogspot.ca/
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