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Nov 7, 2024
Captain Charles A. East, a bomb disposal officer of the Royal Canadian Engineers, stared at the enemy ordnance through binoculars.All seemed still in the Cedarvale, B.C., wilderness,...
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Oct 25, 2024
Canadian peacekeeper Ben Mitchell was uneasy, and not just about the mines. “Tensions were very high for not only the Eritrea[n] and Ethiopian armies,” he recalled of the UN...
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Oct 18, 2024
Twenty-three-year-old Roméo Dallaire, a lieutenant in 5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada on Oct. 5, 1970, struggled to believe what was happening. Earlier that day, a...
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Oct 11, 2024
“Wherever possible,” read a detailed Allied military plan for Operation Jubilee, “prisoners’ hands will be tied to prevent destruction of their documents.” The order was a...
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Oct 8, 2024
Shortly before midnight on Oct. 1, 1916, Second Lieutenant Wulstan Tempest, soaring through English skies in a B.E.2c biplane, spotted his looming target. At more than 14,000 feet...
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Sep 30, 2024
The Canadian Corps had cracked the Drocourt-Quéant Line, the Germans had withdrawn to their final defence at the Hindenburg Line, and the combined Allied forces under Marshal...
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Sep 25, 2024
Wing Commander John Alexander (Jack) Sproule of Brandon, Man., departed RAF Station Blakehill Farm on Sept. 17, 1944. His 437 Squadron, RCAF—a part of No. 46 Group, RAF Transport...
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Sep 12, 2024
There had been gains and losses, victories and defeats, but the War of 1812 had gone well enough for Anglo-Canadian forces by early September 1814. This was especially the case on...
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Sep 6, 2024
What began beside a family cabin in Sudbury, Ont., appeared to be ending against the bullet-ridden wall of a faraway Spanish farmhouse. Jules Paivio, a 20-year-old Finnish Canadian...
Nov 7, 2024Captain Charles A. East, a bomb disposal officer of the Royal Canadian Engineers, stared at the enemy ordnance through binoculars.All seemed still in the Cedarvale, B.C., wilderness,...
Oct 25, 2024Canadian peacekeeper Ben Mitchell was uneasy, and not just about the mines. “Tensions were very high for not only the Eritrea[n] and Ethiopian armies,” he recalled of the UN...
Oct 18, 2024Twenty-three-year-old Roméo Dallaire, a lieutenant in 5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada on Oct. 5, 1970, struggled to believe what was happening. Earlier that day, a...
Oct 11, 2024“Wherever possible,” read a detailed Allied military plan for Operation Jubilee, “prisoners’ hands will be tied to prevent destruction of their documents.” The order was a...
Oct 8, 2024Shortly before midnight on Oct. 1, 1916, Second Lieutenant Wulstan Tempest, soaring through English skies in a B.E.2c biplane, spotted his looming target. At more than 14,000 feet...
Sep 30, 2024The Canadian Corps had cracked the Drocourt-Quéant Line, the Germans had withdrawn to their final defence at the Hindenburg Line, and the combined Allied forces under Marshal...
Sep 25, 2024Wing Commander John Alexander (Jack) Sproule of Brandon, Man., departed RAF Station Blakehill Farm on Sept. 17, 1944. His 437 Squadron, RCAF—a part of No. 46 Group, RAF Transport...
Sep 12, 2024There had been gains and losses, victories and defeats, but the War of 1812 had gone well enough for Anglo-Canadian forces by early September 1814. This was especially the case on...
Sep 6, 2024What began beside a family cabin in Sudbury, Ont., appeared to be ending against the bullet-ridden wall of a faraway Spanish farmhouse. Jules Paivio, a 20-year-old Finnish Canadian...