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Larry Cann
Per Semaphorum ad Satellites (From Semaphore to Satellites)

Larry Cann
May 1955	October 2007
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Sept. 50 - Joined 299 Air Cadet Sqn, Yarmouth, NS Sept. 5 1 - Joined 110 Army Cadet Sqn, Yarmouth Sept. 52 - Joined 84th Field Bty, 14th Field Regiment RCA, Yarmouth Jan. 55 - Joined the Signal Corps as a TelOp on Jan. 17th, 1955 at 1 PD Halifax. I was given an L2 for flat feet and a P2 for being underweight. I was 19 a week later on the 24th and was 6'2" weighing 139 lbs. There were no uniforms in the system to fit me, so I got special made Tip Top uniforms. Basic training was with K107. Jun. 56 - 1 Sig Sqn Ottawa, attached posted to lCIDSR for two months for the 1956 Gagetown Concentration. I drove a WW2 60 Hundredweight (3 ton) truck to Gagetown, that was an experience. April 57 - NB Sig Sqn, Fredericton Sept. 57 - 57 Sig Sqn, UNEF Egypt Oct. 58 - Manitoba Sig Sqn, Winnipeg Feb. 62 - NORTHAG Sig Sqn, Rheindahlen, Germany 62 Maastrich, Holland Aug. 65 - 740 Cornrn Sqn, Nanaimo, BC Jun. 70 - 726 Cornrn Sqn Det CFB Cornwallis, Cornwallis, NS Jul. 73 - CFSCE, CFB Kingston (TelOp instructor) Jun. 76 - TRC (Rockcliffe), CFB Ottawa Mar. 78 - Retired to Yarmouth, NS Mar. 80 - Moved to Deep Brook, NS to work in Cornwallis as CM3 and others. Feb. 82 - Joined CIC Reserve to work with 26 RCASC Cornwallis Mar. 84 - Moved to Halifax to work at CFB Halifax, Bedford Magazine, later to Dockyard, Halifax in Gladstone St., Stores. Mar. 84 - Dec. 90, CIC reserve with 342 & 529 Air Cadet Sqns in Halifax. Jan. 96 - Retired from CFB Halifax Sep. 96 - Vacation in Ft. Lauderdale, FL Feb. 97 - Met future wife, Maureen Jul. 98 - Married in Yarmouth, NS Apr. 99 - Immigrated to US I have always felt blessed to have had a military career, it gave me a life.

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