On December 30, 1941 Winston Churchill visited Ottawa and made a passionate speech which greatly motivated Canadians. Below is a brief video I found on YouTube documenting this visit. My father, Leon Lipson, was somewhere in the crowd on Parliament Hill depicted in this video. He was a few days short of his 19th birthday (born Jan 5, 1923). He was so inspired that he was motivated to write a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, which appears below as well. Such an interesting piece of history!
