Major John A. Hebb
West Nova Scotia Regiment

The Churchill visit was undoubtedly more than a matter of courtesy … This suggests that he completely recognizes Canada’s status as a world power as well as her unique position as a link with the United States on the one hand and Britain and France on the other. It is quite conceivable too that one of his motives was to draw the attention of the world to Canada’s present importance.

(quoted in National Post, 26 Jan 1952, 7)

Born in Hebbville, Nova Scotia on 19 August 1910, John Alexander Hebb was an graduate of University of King’s College and instructor at King’s College School in Windsor. An officer in the Lunenburg Regiment since 1927 and member of the COTC at university he mobilized with the West Nova Scotia Regiment on the outbreak of war in 1939.

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