After a year of bitter fighting through Sicily and up through Italy, Canadians moved to Europe where thousands stormed ashore on D-Day eventually ending the war in Europe 75 years ago today Major public celebrations to note the several landmark… »
Highlights / war
Canada History: May 4, 1910: Canada gets a navy
Long before Canada became a country, many major sea battles had been fought in Canadian waters. First between British and French forces, and during the war of 1812 between British and Americans. In 1867 Canada became a federated country, although… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Major remembrance ceremonies cancelled, but remembrance continues (interview)
Letters in a Time of War A major wartime remembrance event was to be taking place this week in Holland. This was to remember Operation Faust, a Canadian and Allied effort to feed starving Dutch citizens still occupied by Germans.… »
Canada History: Apr. 17, 2002-Afghan tragedy “I’m rollin in”
With those fatal words, “I’m rollin’ in in self defence” a U.S fighter pilot descended on a group of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, dropped a bomb, and killed four and wounded eight. These would represent the first Canadian deaths in… »
Canada History: Apr. 7. 1973 – Death in Vietnam, peace accord farce
It was on this day in 1973 that a Canadian military officer was killed by North Vietnamese forces. The Vietnam war is a well-known, well documented, and well mythologised period in modern history. During the course of the war about… »
International, Politics, Sports
History Canada: March 11,1952: Hockey breaks out at the front lines of war
In the midst of the Korean War, Canadians were among the U.N. forces manning the hills that constituted the front line facing Communist forces of the North Koreans and Chinese. Between those hills flowed the Imjin river below. The winters… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada History: Feb. 19. 1942; When the Nazis invaded Winnipeg
By 1942, Canada was on a total war footing. People were enlisting eagerly into the Canadian military forces, industrial production was massively converted to war production of guns, artillery, ships, aircraft, armoured and cargo vehicles, radios, medical supplies, uniforms and… »
NATO emergency meeting over killing of top Iranian general
After the U.S. drone strike on Friday that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and several other important Iranian military or militia leaders on Iraqi soil. U.S. President Trump said Soleimani’s “reign of terror” was over. The U.S. action appears to… »
History Canada: Dec. 6, 1917 Canada’s worst domestic tragedy
It was December 6, 1917 and deadly war in Europe still dragged on with its massive destruction and horrific toll in lives. Canada’s east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, had become a main staging point for the war… »
Remembrance Day: Honouring the Canadian fallen
It is a cold and slightly snowy day across much of Canada this November 11th, as it often is on this date in this country. Regardless of the weather, Canadians are gathering at cenotaphs, war memorials and community centres across… »
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