While Her Loyal Sons are Marching

About the Book

While Her Loyal Sons are Marching

Kids whose parents served during the 1st and 2nd World Wars were always apprehensive that they might be called upon to serve their country if or when circumstances were presented.

They could not help but feel that it was necessary that they should be prepared even in some minor way to contribute to the defense of the Country as Canada continued to play such an important role in world affairs. Her military was called upon to step in and 'up to the plate' so to speak so many times we got to call them CANADATES. Our boys with the Red Maple Leaves on their sleeves who settled out many trouble spots world-wide became instantly recognized as the trouble shooters.

This is the story of young people of Coastal B.C. who grew up under the 'Be Prepared Motto' and served in the Army, Navy or Air Cadets. The view was from many prairie kids who came to the Coast before WWII and joined with other families of the Burrard Inlet when manufacturing and construction businesses had grown to feed the insatiable appetite of shipbuilding and repairing from the early 1930s and until Canada's requirement for heads-up personel to serve in her Military in U.N. or Nato roles wherever the country called them

We engage an old established family from North Vancouver who with three boys saw fit to push their Military Careers and we follow them through their Cadet Militaria and their Army and Civil careers for a goodly number of years. The only thing that could have been better would have been that they had done the 4 years of research and written it all down while the author was standing by just to correct the spelling. But I do thank them for the wonderful effort.

We watched as many 1000s of shipyard workers came to work every day and pounded out hundreds of thousands of tons of ships.

We saw bridges go up and sometimes come down.

We watched sports and athletic champions develop among us and also watched far too many of our boys go off to conflict never to return.

The Steacy Boys were part of a splendid family to use as a community example and as you read the story you will feel the life of the community and the influence of these people develop those Canadians who are so frequently called upon to sort out the far corners of the world. We bred them!

About the Author

Born 30 November 1927, Lipton Saskatchewan
Family moved to North Vancouver B.C. October 1933
Author has four brothers and two sisters

Parents: Rose and Henry Schopp, mother prairie born, father, Polish Immigrant spoke five languages, served in WWI in England with the Regina Rifles and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Writer became Army Cadet Officer at Queen Mary Jr. High School and with the untimely death of his Cadet Captain he became joint Cadet Commander with a fellow student.

Moving on to North Vancouver Senior High School author served for 4 years with the Army Cadet Corps # 1699 and became its Cadet Commanding Officer just a few days before WWII ended. He served his summers aboard Canadian Pacific and Canadian National steamships to Alaska.

Employed as an apprentice in Pharmacy with D.J. Webb in N. Van. entered into faculty of Pharmacy at UBC and was graduated with a degree in B.Sc.Pharm. in 1952. He took a position as staff pharmacist with Nanaimo Pharmacy Ltd. in early 50s and became its CEO in 1961. Operated up to give community pharmacies in central Vancouver Island area until senior partners sold their interest. Lloud continued to serve as a Locum Pharmacist in Victoria, Duncan, Qualicum, Port Alberni and Nanaimo and retired in 1992/

He has been active in and served as President of the Nanaimo Jr. Chamber of Commerce, taught courses in Effective Speaking, sang in his Church Choir, St. Paul Lutheran and taught numerous classes of Bible Study, and served as Chair of the Board and member of his Church council for a number of years.

As he had served as a Cadet officer in several Corps the Archivist and his Assistant at the Museum and Archives of North Vancouver asked if he would produce a research study of the Army Cadets and possible a history of the Cadets. This is the result of his nearly five years effort.