The term “Merry Christmas” was said to have been first coined in 1699 by a British admiral.  Also, during that time We Wish You A Merry Christmas was first sung. Much later the salutation appeared in the first Christmas card, also in England, in 1843. In that year the  Dickens’ novel, A Christmas Carol, sees [...]

In my novel Ice Break a large, state-of-the-art icebreaker is hijacked by eco-terrorists and begins to ram and sink fishing boats on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. But could a normal icebreaker destroy large trawler? The largest icebreaker in Canada is the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent. At 392.5 feet in length, 80 feet in beam, [...]

Harley Melanson, the protagonist of my novel, The Millennium Man, racked up his score as a fighter pilot in a Sopwith Camel. The Camel entered World War I during a time when the badly-outclassed Allied aircraft were being butchered by the jastas of German aces. In 1916, the Germans controlled the skies over the battlefield. [...]