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12 January Meeting

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Influence of Navy and Army on development of Victoria 1914-1945

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Dale Mumford is the Business and Community Relations Officer for Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse, National Historic Sites of Canada. A native Victorian, he graduated from the University of Victoria (B.A. History) in 1979. Starting with Parks Canada as a seasonal historic interpreter in 1975, he has spent most of his career at Fort Rodd Hill but has served at Fort Langley National Historic site and in Parks Canada Western Regional Office. He is a member of Tourism Victoria and chairs the Victoria Heritage Group.

9 February Meeting

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The Cormorant as a SAR helicopter

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9 March Meeting

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Task Force Kabul

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Colonel Jim Ellis has just returned from Afghanistan where he was Commander Task Force Kabul, Canada’s 700-troop contribution to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), from August 2004 to February 2005. He will resume his Chief of Staff duties in Edmonton next month.

Upon graduation from Carelton U. at Ottawa in 1983, he was posted to the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) in Calgary. Throughout his career, Col Ellis has served five tours with his regiment, his last as Commanding Officer. He has served two tours in the Balkans, commanding troops with the United Nations Protection Force and with NATO's Stabilization Force. He has also served as a staff officer with National Defence Headquarters, Army Headquarters, and at the Directorate of Army Doctrine in Kingston.

He was a Regular Support Staff Officer with The British Columbia Regiment in Vancouver, an exchange officer with the British 17th/21st Lancers as a Challenger tank squadron comd at Munster, West Germany and a 1998 graduate from the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, Toronto. He became Chief of staff at Edmonton in 2002.