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THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine said "the good in our society" must be celebrated, as 47 awards were distributed on Sunday at the annual Tobago Awards at Shaw Park Cultural Complex. Augustine said the presentation was about the real Tobago story being told and the heroes being honoured. These stories, he said, are of courage
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Creature Comforters
Written by Nancy Payne â Posted June 28, 2021
From prime ministers to army privates, people of all ranks and stations adore their animal companions. Pets and working beasts have inspired acts of compassion, conservation, and sometimes even artistic greatness. Furred, feathered, or fetlocked, here are a few animals that have pawed, prowled, and pranced their way into Canadian history.
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WARHORSES
Roughly one out of every ten horses the Allies used in the First World War came from Canada about 130,000 in all. The Toronto Police Force’s mounted unit sent eighteen, of which only Bunny, a strawberry roan that saw action at Vimy Ridge, survived. Although the city offered to pay Bunny’s way home after the war, the military decided that only officers’ horses would be returned, and he was sold to the Belgian government. The only Canadian Member of Parliament to die in the war, Lieutenant-Colonel George Harold Baker, also had