Aaron Kylie

Members of the 2025 Royal Canadian Legion’s Pilgrimage of Remembrance walk along Juno Beach. [Stephen J. Thorne] “Seeing is believing.” An idiom now, the phrase is credited to 17th-century English clergyman Thomas Fuller.

[Eric Riordon/CWM/19950104-014] “This is the North Atlantic! All too frequently the sea under a roaring gale runs a forty and fifty foot swell, dwarfing the corvette, mast-head high, mighty waves that come hurtling out of the sky, and meeting the staunch little ship head-on they split angrily and fling seething tons of water upon her.” So wrote Eric Riordon in his artist statement for “Heavy Going!” The piece was one of 34 exhibited as “North Atlantic Convoy”—first at the department store Jas. A.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.” So said American photojour-nalist Eve Arnold. The quote held a place of prominence on the gallery section of the personal website of Stephen J. Thorne, Legion Magazine’s late senior staff writer. As regular readers of the magazine well know, Thorne was as gifted a photographer as he was a writer.