Alex Bowers

You can now pick up a copy of my Legion Magazine special issue on Canadian Victoria Cross recipients! I put the words on the pages, but so much else goes into making one of these. I'm indeed blessed to have an amazing team behind me. Order online here: shop.legionmagazine.com/product/tale...

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with Jim Hutton, co-founder of the not-for-profit organization Veterans with Cancer, discussing potential carcinogenic exposure in the Canadian Armed Forces. legionmagazine.com/veterans-wit... 📸 Veterans with Cancer.

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My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Allan Bartley, whose new book explores the daring exploits of Canadian WW II spy Mike Kendall in Hong Kong and beyond. legionmagazine.com/author-allan... 📸 Courtesy Heritage House Publishing.

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Allan Bartley, whose new book explores the daring exploits of Canadian WW II spy Mike Kendall in Hong Kong and beyond. legionmagazine.com/author-allan... 📸 Courtesy Heritage House Publishing.

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with Canadian Sgt. (ret'd) Jessica Miller, co-founder of the Veteran Farm Project in Sweets Corner, N.S. The site tackles food insecurity and offers a nature-based sanctuary for women of various backgrounds. legionmagazine.com/jessica-mill...

Timely as October is Women's History Month.

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with Canadian filmmaker Dale Morrisey, whose four-part documentary series, now streaming on PBS, highlights the role of women during WW II. legionmagazine.com/canadian-fil... 📸 Wandering Journalist Productions.

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian and diver Joseph Frey, who, in 2025, led an expedition to the wreck site of HMCS Canada. The former RCN flagship survived the Great War and now rests in the Florida Keys. legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Courtesy Joseph Frey.

My latest Legion Magazine "Artifact" piece details the story of the Nurses’ Memorial. Though the monument commemorates 2,845 Canadian nursing sisters, its iconography is complex to say the least. Read more here: legionmagazine.com/the-nurses-m... 📸 Canadian Nurses Association/LAC/e003525007

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian and diver Joseph Frey, who, in 2025, led an expedition to the wreck site of HMCS Canada. The former RCN flagship survived the Great War and now rests in the Florida Keys. legionmagazine.com/an-armchair-... 📸 Courtesy Joseph Frey.

My latest Legion Magazine "Artifact" piece details the story of the Nurses’ Memorial. Though the monument commemorates 2,845 Canadian nursing sisters, its iconography is complex to say the least. Read more here: legionmagazine.com/the-nurses-m... 📸 Canadian Nurses Association/LAC/e003525007

(1/5) The September/October issue of Legion Magazine is out now, including four of my latest articles. Here's what you can expect...

My latest "Military Health Matters" column for Legion Magazine explores how a Canadian organization specializing in chronic pain is helping veterans find relief. legionmagazine.com/under-pressu... 📸 Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Karen Farrington about Allied PoWs - including Canadians - who escaped through Italy during the Second World War. Her new book, The Great Italian Breakout, tells their story in full. legionmagazine.com/author-karen... 📸 Icon Books

"When Canadian captives Raymond Sherk and Don McLarty saw an opportunity to escape Camp 78, a prisoner-of-war facility in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, they wasted little time."

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Karen Farrington about Allied PoWs - including Canadians - who escaped through Italy during the Second World War. Her new book, The Great Italian Breakout, tells their story in full. legionmagazine.com/author-karen... 📸 Icon Books

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with author Matthew Walthert on the life of hockey star and Great War soldier Scotty Davidson. From ice rinks to the Western Front to his mysterious death in 1915, it's all discussed here. legionmagazine.com/author-matth... 📸 Courtesy Peter Carew.

Today is Star Trek Day, so I thought I'd share my recent Legion Magazine article on Canadian actor James Doohan. You may know him for playing "Scotty" in the original series, but he also stormed Juno Beach on June 6, 1944! legionmagazine.com/historian-cr...

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with MP Fred Davies about his efforts to formally recognize Canadian fatalities from the Fenian Raids. legionmagazine.com/mp-fred-davi... 📸 LAC/Wikimedia

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with MP Fred Davies about his efforts to formally recognize Canadian fatalities from the Fenian Raids. legionmagazine.com/mp-fred-davi... 📸 LAC/Wikimedia

Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...

My latest Legion Magazine article - the second of two parts - is an interview with historian Tanya Grodzinski discussing the Canadians (or British North Americans, as they were) who fought in Europe against Napoleon. legionmagazine.com/historian-ta... 📸 The Queen’s York Rangers Regimental Council.

Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...

My latest Legion Magazine article - the second of two parts - is an interview with historian Tanya Grodzinski discussing the Canadians (or British North Americans, as they were) who fought in Europe against Napoleon. legionmagazine.com/historian-ta... 📸 The Queen’s York Rangers Regimental Council.

Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...

Missed it last week? Here is my latest Legion Magazine article: legionmagazine.com/historian-ta...

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with British historian Paul Reed on Canada's Great War contribution. The tour guide once lived on the Somme, where he helped recover the remains of a Canadian unknown soldier. legionmagazine.com/british-hist... 📸Louis Weirter/CWM/19710261-0788.

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with British historian Paul Reed on Canada's Great War contribution. The tour guide once lived on the Somme, where he helped recover the remains of a Canadian unknown soldier. legionmagazine.com/british-hist... 📸Louis Weirter/CWM/19710261-0788.

My latest "Military Health Matters" column in Legion Magazine explores how Canadian military medicine needs to adapt to the Arctic. legionmagazine.com/remote-readi... 📸 Master Corporal Alana Morin/Combat Camera.

My latest Legion Magazine article features an interview with historian Eric Story, exploring the legacy of Great War veterans with disabilities—including the inspiring tale of George Hincks and Marshall McDougall. legionmagazine.com/historian-er... 📸 University of Wilfrid Laurie

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with sculptors Don and Shirley Begg, who have spent much of their careers immortalizing Canadian military history in bronze. legionmagazine.com/sculptors-do... 📸 Corporal Antoine Brochu/Canadian Forces Combat Camera.

My latest Legion Magazine cover feature, "Altar of Remembrance," is now online: legionmagazine.com/altar-of-rem... It charts Vimy Ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone—and the Canadian Great War veterans who witnessed both. (Yes, I was wearing my sunglasses inside, but I felt cool).

So much history I didn't know about the monument. Well worth a read. Also, it would be nice if Alex could get a few more followers on this site.

My latest Legion Magazine cover feature, "Altar of Remembrance," is now online: legionmagazine.com/altar-of-rem... It charts Vimy Ridge’s journey from mud to chiselled stone—and the Canadian Great War veterans who witnessed both. (Yes, I was wearing my sunglasses inside, but I felt cool).

My latest Legion Magazine article is an interview with historian Tim Foran. Here, he discusses the Canadian War Museum's new exhibition exploring the nation's involvement in the U.S. Civil War. legionmagazine.com/canadian-war... 📸 Courtesy Canadian War Museum.

In my latest Legion Magazine article, Dutch-born Canadian Herman Mol (pictured), 97, recalls the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Hunger Winter famine that killed 20,000, and his immigration journey to the country that helped liberate his homeland. legionmagazine.com/ww-ii-hunger...

The Juno Beach Centre has acquired the bell and shipbuilder's plate from the WW II-era HMCS Alberni. Both artifacts were removed from the wreck by independent divers, but the museum has since intervened. Read more in my latest Legion Magazine article. legionmagazine.com/juno-beach-c... 📸 JBC.

The Juno Beach Centre has acquired the bell and shipbuilder's plate from the WW II-era HMCS Alberni. Both artifacts were removed from the wreck by independent divers, but the museum has since intervened. Read more in my latest Legion Magazine article. legionmagazine.com/juno-beach-c... 📸 JBC.