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0 PHOTO: G. TAYLER, PARKS CANADA—H.05.46.09.01(08); ILLUSTRATION: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C006556 Sun and shadow sweep across Grosse Île and its Celtic Cross (lower left). Inset: A sketch of passengers on board a ship. The 19th century saw vast numbers of immigrants come to Canada in search...
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0 PHOTOS: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA022967; ANDREW M.K. ALEXANDER, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA195987 Lord Beaverbrook (centre) poses with officers and ladies during WW I. Inset: Beaverbrook (second right) outside Canadian Cavalry Brigade headquarters in France in August 1916. The officer on the far left is Gen....
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0 PHOTOS: CANADIAN FORCES—PL2730; PL23463 A flying boat from 5 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron patrols over an Atlantic convoy; Inset: Squadron Leader Clare L. Annis. The Royal Canadian Air Force was not wholly unprepared when it entered World War II. The force had been receiving newer aircraft...
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0 PHOTO: ALEX STIRTON, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA130247 Canadian armour arrives on the shores of the Italian mainland in September 1943. While the men of 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade were fighting for the high ground overlooking the Sicilian town of Adrano, Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister,...
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0 PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA115369 HMCS Aurora (foreground) with either HMCS Patrician or HMCS Patriot at Esquimalt, B.C., in 1921. One of the earliest objections to the establishment of a Canadian navy was the fear that it would involve Canada in situations far removed from...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: Stewart Sherwood I jumped over the ship’s starboard rail into the Atlantic shortly after the second torpedo hit. I say the Atlantic, but by then we had probably reached the outer limits of the Bay of Biscay, roughly 300 miles off the French coast....
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