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Time–it’s all relative

February 22, 2011 by Robert Mackay 1 Comment

My current project is to put together a presentation for the Western Front Association, Pacific Coast Branch conference and AGM in Victoria, March 4th to 6th. My topic is “The Canadian Cavalry Brigade in World War I”. To do so I have done a historical summary and collected images to tie in with the editorial copy. One photo takes me back: my father and me, standing on the front steps of our house, in approximately 1962. I am in the uniform of an RCN midshipman. A much earlier photo shows Dad, c 1914-15, in cavalry uniform, with his father and grandfather.
When the photo of Dad and me was taken, he would have been 68 or 69 years old, my current age. When I was a young man the days of my father’s youth, and the Great War, seemed an impossibly long time before. But in the Second World War, when I was born, WW I must have seemed like the day before to Dad.

Now that I have entered the world of 1914 via writing “Soldier of the Horse”, it is starting to feel like yesterday, even to me, ninety-seven years later.

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Military belongs on campus

February 18, 2011 by Robert Mackay 2 Comments

Military belongs on campus

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Strathconas Ride Again

February 17, 2011 by Robert Mackay Leave a Comment

Thanks to Ursula Mawell-Lewis, who wrote a very kind article for the Reporter; see it here: http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/116365029.html

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Launch is coming for “Soldier of the Horse”

February 14, 2011 by Robert Mackay Leave a Comment

Working hard toward the upcoming launch in the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 6, 17567-57th Ave, Cloverdale on March 2nd at 7 pm. I have sent out 300 emails today, according to hotmail, as they have now shut me down for 24 hours! “Only” about 250 of those were invitations to the launch, so lots more to do tomorrow if the system lets me continue.

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“Soldier of the Horse” Arrives

February 8, 2011 by Robert Mackay Leave a Comment

Here I am with “Soldier of the Horse”–the first copy out of the box. It has been an exciting trip, especially as the publication date approached. What with the launch set for March 2nd, in the Cloverdale Legion, and the book in distribution at this time, I am anxiously awaiting reaction from readers. It is 93 years since the cataclysmic events that inspired this story; I hope I have done it justice.

Here are the memers of the first readers’ editorial board, without whom the project would not have happened. Thanks, Ross, Pat and Scott.

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Countdown to “Soldier of the Horse”

January 30, 2011 by Robert Mackay Leave a Comment

There is barely a month left before the book launch for “Soldier of the Horse.” The event is set for March 2nd, in the Cloverdale Branch No. 6 of the Royal Canadian Legion, 17567 57th Avenue, Cloverdale. I am looking forward to seeing lots of family, friends, and fellow writers; and to telling them a little about the book, why I wrote it, and what’s on tap for the future. Not that I have actually seen the book yet, but I am assured it is in the pipeline!

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From saddles and spurs to periscopes and North-Seekers, Robert W. Mackay is an avid military, naval and wartime historian.

He is currently working on a mystery.

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