Diane Doiron was raised in Pointe Sapin, New Brunswick. At the age of 20, she enrolled in the Navy in February 1985. After her basic training she was sent to Canadian Forces Station Selbourne in Nova Scotia where she was involved with the US Navy and tracked Soviet submarines. During her time at CFS Shelbourne, Doiron was interrogated multiple times about her sexuality. She was dismissed from the Navy on December 23rd, 1987 on the biases of her sexuality after her one month stay in a psychiatric ward at CFB Halifax. Following her dismissal from the military, Doiron went on to have a career in photojournalism with the Chronicle Herald in Halifax. Over the past several decades, her photos and stories have appeared in Canada-wide publications such as the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the Canadian Press. She spent the last decade of her career as Evening Photo Editor at the National Post in Toronto. Over her lengthy and successful career, Doiron won numerous awards, including but not limited to the Atlantic Photojournalism Award in 1998, the 2008 Award of Excellence for Photography, and most recently the 2017 Outdoor Canada Magazine Photo of the Year Award. On November 28th, 2017, Doiron along with other purge survivors attended the apology by the Prime Minister of Canada at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario. Diane now lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia with her partner Pamela Ibbitson. She was Grand Marshall of the Moncton Pride Parade in 2019 to highlight her courage and resilience.

Obituary of George Frederick Henderson

Mr. George Frederick Henderson was born on February 10, 1904 in Springfield, he was the son of the late Frederick and Elvina (Quirk) Henderson.
He worked as a farmer for many years.
George will live on the hearts of his daughter, Serena; his sons: Bill Henderson and his wife Barbara, Vernon Henderson and his wife Robin, Harold Henderson and his wife Willie, Robert Henderson and his wife Angie, Fred (Bud) Henderson and his wife Sharron and Bernard Henderson and his wife Barbara; his sister, Marquerite Campbell; 19 grandchildren; 8 great grandchildren; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Mr. George Frederick Henderson of Whites Mountain, passed away at Sussex Health Center on September 28, 1993 at the age of 89.
He was predeceased by his wife, Mabel who passed away in 1990; his brother, William; his sisters: Anna, Grace, Betty, Alice and by his grandson, Mark.

Katie, known also as “KB,” was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1890, receiving much of her education in boarding schools abroad, including several years in Cape Town, South Africa. She went on to attend McDonald College, McGill’s agricultural college, one of the few female students at the time. During World War One she took a job at the Saint John Daily Telegraph, where she became the paper’s first woman reporter. She continued her career as a reporter for over 43 years. For much of her life she spent summers at a cottage in St. Andrews shared with her sister Mabel who, like Katie, never married. Katie died December 30, 1977, at the age of 87.

Wallace Broad was an engineer and geologist born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1856. After graduating from the University of New Brunswick, he worked with the Dominion Geological Survey of Canada and the St. Stephen-based mining tool manufacturer E. Broad & Sons before moving to South Africa with his family in 1894, where he worked as a geologist in Rhodesia and East Africa. From 1902-1905 he spent several years in China as a mining advisor to the Chinese Imperial Government. After short stints in Japan and England, he returned to China to work in mining and metallurgy until 1913, when he retired and returned to Canada. He settled in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, where he took up printing, becoming editor, publisher, and eventually proprietor of The Beacon newspaper from 1914 to 1919. He was also active in town affairs and served as chairman of the school board from 1917 to 1925. In 1916 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick. He died on April 22, 1934, in Boston, after a bout of pneumonia subsequent to an operation.

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