On the 18^th of June 2003, under the Command of LGen (Ret’d) CT Whitecross, 1 Construction Engineering Unit (1 CEU) was redesignated as 1 Engineer Support Unit (1 ESU) by the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, VAdm GR Maddison. On that day the long history of 1 CEU and the legacy of the Construction and Maintenance Units (CMU) that preceded it was transferred to 1 ESU. Along with the legacy of excellence, the 1 CEU Heraldic Crest, which was officially endorsed in her own hand by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in August 1976, was inherited by the nascent 1 ESU.

On Saturday 5 June 2019, LCol Mark Flint, CD took over command of The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment from LCol J.R.V. Dufour in Bathurst, NB.  LCol Flint retired from the Regular Force in 2012 after an exciting career as a sapper officer in 1, 2 and 5 CERs with tours in the Balkans and Afghanistan.  The North Shore Regiment has a storied past and celebrated their role in the Normandy invasion the day following the Change of Command.  All events were virtual. 

It is never too early to start your estate planning, but it can easily be too late.  To that end, we have created an estate planning page to get you started.  We make no claim that the page is complete.  Once you start the process, you will find there is plenty of useful information available.  Our page is simply there to get you thinking about the process.  When you start is up to you, but it is never too early.  Click here.

In August 2019, teams of professional artists, landscape architects, architects, and other urban design professionals were invited to provide their credentials and examples of prior work. In summer 2020, a jury composed of experts in the fields of arts and urban design and representatives from key stakeholder groups shortlisted five design teams to create a design for the Monument.

Updated: 19 Oct 22

As part of the Faces to Graves project in the Netherlands, ‘Faces to Canadian War Graves Groesbeek’ LINK is working to publish a short story of each of the Canadian soldiers buried in Groesbeek or included on their Memorial Wall. The stories are being published online LINK as they are written.

Both Iraq and Kuwait achieved independence in the 20^th century. The relationship between the two countries, however, had not been smooth. Iraq had long felt that Kuwait was really a part of Iraq and that Kuwaiti oil rigs were illegally tapping into Iraqi oil fields. In the late 1980s, tensions grew and relations became much worse. On 2 August 1990, the situation came to a head when Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait and quickly took control of its much smaller neighbour.