Harry De Wolf
Vice Admiral Henry George "Harry" DeWolf CBE DSO DSC CD (26 June 1903 – 18 December 2000) was a Canadian naval officer who was made famous as the first commander of HMCS Haida (G63) during World War II.
DeWolf is often acknowledged as the most decorated Canadian naval officer in World War II and considered by military historians to be Canada's greatest naval officer for having won a string of victories at sea, and for having helped negotiate an independent role for the Royal Canadian Navy in the North Atlantic, rather than have it operate as a subsidiary to the Royal Navy or United States Navy.
Read more about Harry De Wolf: Early Years, Cold War, Retirement
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“It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)