How Woodstock Got Its Name
Woodstock was nearly called Brighton. The story of how a squabbling admiral and his naval agent turned a town plot on Simcoe's map into Woodstock, Ontario.
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8 November 2026
RCAF Pilots from Woodstock
Woodstock, Ontario, produced a remarkable concentration of airmen for a city of its size — and one of the most important airmen in Canadian history. At least eight men with a solid Woodstock connection served as RCAF pilots in the Second World War, and seven of the eight were killed. The eighth was a First World War ace who went on to become one of the RCAF's senior commanders. This is their story — and the story of the Woodstock men named on the city's cenotaph, and of a Woodstock pilot lost in our own time.
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