History

Commemorating the beginning of the Battle of Scheldt

Seventy-six years ago this month, the objective of freeing the Scheldt was entrusted to the First Canadian Army, under the…

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Commemorating Canada entering the Second World War 81 years ago

Above image: see cutlines below.  This week marked Canada’s entry into the Second World War. Following the Declaration of War…

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Remembering Operation Husky: The campaign that captured Sicily during the Second World War

Above image: see below.  The invasion of Sicily, code-named Operation Husky, began on July 10, 1943, when 150,000 Allied troops…

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Commemorating the Dieppe Raid 78 years later

Above image: Left, Exhausted but alive, these men are happy to be back in England after nine hours in the Dieppe…

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Hill 70 Canada’s Forgotten Victory during the First World War

Above image: see cutlines below.  Just over 100 years ago today, the Canadian Corps attacked the city of Lens, France,…

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