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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 9h

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with military historian and educator-turned-children’s book author, Kelsey Lonie. Her debut tome, Whitey’s Journey, tells the true story of a Canadian dog mascot in WW II.

📸 Heritage House Publishing

legionmagazine.com/childrens-bo...

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 16h

In May 2025, I covered The Royal Canadian Legion's 57th Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command convention hosted in my hometown of Antigonish, N.S., for Legion Magazine. The article is now online!

📸 Annie Bowers/LM.

legionmagazine.com/57th-nova-sc...

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling you get where, for once, someone else was more awkward and introverted than you in a phone interaction. #millennialproblems.

a red and orange box is sitting on the floor

ALT: a red and orange box is sitting on the floor

media.tenor.com

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 6d

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian Debbie Jiang, who played a pivotal role in getting two Japanese-Canadian soldiers, Pte. Hikotaro Koyanagi and Pte. Kazuo Harada, added to the Richmond, B.C., Cenotaph.

legionmagazine.com/forgotten-ja...

📸 Courtesy of Debbie Jiang

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so, so much, Jeffrey!

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 7d

I'm just going to nervously leave this here and hope that the information on the page explains it all...

gofund.me/24c8479a9

Donate to Project: Keep Alex and Annie in Canada, organized by Annabel Bowers

Hello, chaps! You may know us as the two Brits who pop up everywhere, you m… Annabel Bowers needs your support for Project: Keep Alex and Annie in Canada

gofund.me

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 7d

I'm just going to nervously leave this here and hope that the information on the page explains it all...

gofund.me/24c8479a9

Donate to Project: Keep Alex and Annie in Canada, organized by Annabel Bowers

Hello, chaps! You may know us as the two Brits who pop up everywhere, you m… Annabel Bowers needs your support for Project: Keep Alex and Annie in Canada

gofund.me

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for this! I've just reached out to them.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 9d

I'm looking for expert interviewees to talk about Gordon Flowerdew, who earned the Victoria Cross in what many have called the "last Canadian cavalry charge," the Battle of Moreuil Wood on March 30, 1918.

📸 Wikipedia / Canadian War Museum.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · 9d

Any research avenue recommendations for the Anglo-Canadian occupation of Iceland during the Second World War? (Yes, I know the U.S. were there, too).

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

A fiery footnote in history, the July 1945 Bedford Magazine explosion almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first.

Check out my latest Legion Magazine feature, now online!

legionmagazine.com/not-again/

📸 J.C.M. Hayward/Nova Scotia Archives/Wikimedia

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

A fiery footnote in history, the July 1945 Bedford Magazine explosion almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first.

Check out my latest Legion Magazine feature, now online!

legionmagazine.com/not-again/

📸 J.C.M. Hayward/Nova Scotia Archives/Wikimedia

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks for the heads up. No longer.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Aug 13

In my latest Legion Magazine article, I spoke to Canadian historian David O'Keefe about a suspicious WW II aircrew loss. “This is the most intriguing story I’ve ever come across," he said.

You can find a teaser to the tale here.

legionmagazine.com/historian-da...

📸 Northernsky Entertainment

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

In my latest Legion Magazine article, I speak to author and historian Iain MacGregor about his tome, "The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It."

Learn about his fresh perspectives here.

legionmagazine.com/humanizing-t...

📸 Adrian Pope

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 30

In my latest Legion Magazine article, I speak to Canadian naval historian Roger Litwiller about the controversial recovery—or removal—of HMCS Trentonian's bell from its wreck site.

What's your opinion?

legionmagazine.com/canadian-nav...

📸 CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

In my latest Legion Magazine article, I interview sculptor Tyler Fauvelle about his newly twinned tribute to WW II trailblazer Fern Blodgett Sunde, now unveiled in the Norwegian town of Farsund.

Sunde was Canada's first female deep sea radio operator.

legionmagazine.com/a-duplicate-...

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

In my latest Legion Magazine article, I interview sculptor Tyler Fauvelle about his newly twinned tribute to WW II trailblazer Fern Blodgett Sunde, now unveiled in the Norwegian town of Farsund.

Sunde was Canada's first female deep sea radio operator.

legionmagazine.com/a-duplicate-...

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yesterday, Annie held one-hour photoshoots for families and couples at Seafoam Lavender Company & Gardens near Tatamagouche. She aced it! Our dearest friends, Matt and Tory, also joined us for their own session. Would you be interested in participating next time she hosts again?

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 19

Tatamagouche time!

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 18

Discover how The Burns Way, a new digital peer-to-peer service, simplifies access to mental health support for Canadian veterans in my latest Legion Magazine column.

legionmagazine.com/the-burns-wa...

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 10

CIMVHR has released new children's books crafted to broaden understanding of service in a family setting. Veteran and retired astronaut Chris Hadfield narrates one on these stories.

Find out more in my latest Legion Magazine article!

legionmagazine.com/new-children...

📸 CIMVHR

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

(6/6) As an aside, it's nice to be sharing magazine space with my mentor Andy Saunders again. Andy put me on my writing career path over a decade ago. I owe him so much for that. His piece, "No Known Grave," details the search for the final resting place of a fallen Canadian pilot.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

(5/6) Finally, "Food Fight" details how Canada's Second World War rationing was literally done by the book. I interviewed the Canadian War Museum's military historian and agricultural expert Stacey Barker about the five-year-long measures.

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Alex Bowers @bowerswrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

(4/6) My second feature is on Canada's Bedford Magazine explosion in July 1945, which almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first. Ultimately, the incident became little more than a footnote in history, a far better outcome than the alternative.

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