Leading Seaman Valerie Boyer, a Naval Communicator, and Volunteer Medical Responder with 683 Dartmouth Division working with the Visits and Protocol Office in the Maritime Atlantic Headquarters, watches as the Olympic Flame bursts into life as an Olympic Flame Caretaker transfers the flame from the miner' s lamp to the torch. Standing with LS Boyer watching is the Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Peter MacKay, on a cool November morning in the courtyard of the Halifax Citadel National Historic Fort with the Olympic Torch Relay Team waiting in the background.