November 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 – Reception 6:00 pm, Dinner 7:00 pm

Where: Ball Room, the Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C

The Society’s Annual General Meeting and Dinner with guest speaker Colonel (Retired) Keith Maxwell, OMM, CD

Please join us at our Dinner and Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at the Vancouver Club, Mail Ballroom, 915 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC. Dress is business attire. After our brief AGM, guest speaker, Colonel (Retired) Keith Maxwell, will make a presentation entitled “Canada’s 100 Days-The Last 100 Days of the First World War”.

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Over the course of the First World War the Canadian Corps evolved into the most effective formation of its size on the Western Front. Its stunning successes at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele in 1917 gave it the reputation as the Shock Troops of the British Empire. In the Final 100 Days of the War, the Corps would lead the Allies as the spearhead to victory. Colonel Maxwell will explain the final chapter of Canada’s transformation from a self-ruling colony to a self-confident and independent member of the British Commonwealth.

 

Join us for an evening of fun and thought-provoking reflections from the man who not only made history but also interprets it for a new generation in the twenty-first century.

Colonel Maxwell served as an Air Weapons Controller (fighter controller) and operations staff officer in a number of positions and locations in the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) from the 1970s to the 1990s. His final posting in NORAD was in Colorado Springs where he worked in the Cheyenne Mountain complex. He was the director of the Air Defence Operations Centre and was a Deputy Command Director of a crew in the NORAD Command Post providing early warning of SCUD missile launches from Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. During his time in NORAD Colonel Maxwell flew as a Mission Commander and Battle Commander on Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft over a period of fifteen years. These duties included the interception of numerous Soviet aircraft operating in the vicinity of North American airspace. In 1993 Colonel Maxwell was posted on promotion to Colonel, to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), in Mons, Belgium as the head of the Air Command and Control Branch in the Operations Division.

 

Colonel Maxwell retired from the Canadian Forces in September 1998, and joined the NATO International Staff in the NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency (NACMA) in Brussels, Belgium. He was the Chief of the Requirements and Architecture Branch for that Agency for ten years.

 

During his time in Europe Colonel Maxwell lived within an hour’s drive of many of the Canadian battlefields of both World Wars. With that proximity he started a serious study of the battles and battlefields where so many Canadians had fought and died. He began conducting battlefield tours in the mid-1990s for a variety of Canadian groups interested in furthering their understanding of Canada’s history in Europe; his tour groups have included several NATO Staff College groups, the Canadian National Defence College, the Minister of Veterans Affairs and the Minister of National Defence. He also helped organize several tours for Canadian Veterans returning to Europe for commemorative occasions.

 

Colonel Maxwell has a History degree from the University of Manitoba and is a graduate of the Canadian Forces Staff School, the US Air Force Air War College and the Canadian Forces Senior Defence and Security Studies Programme. He has written several articles on Canada’s role in both wars. Now retired, he lives in Sechelt BC.

 

Cost: $75 for a Member, spouse or a family member, $85 each for a non-Member (Dinner includes a glass of wine. Please note that no refunds or credits will be given without 48 hours notice.

 

Please inform our Society Administrator, Linda Metcalfe, of your attendance by Email at [email protected], by mailing the attached form, by voice registration at 604-290-0880, or registering online at www.winstonchurchillbc.org

 

I look forward to seeing you on November 16th. Please feel free to send this notice to any interested parties.

 

Ian Marshall Signature

Ian E. Marshall, Secretary

Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of British Columbia

 

To download the full event invitation, follow this link.

 

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