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0 The federal government has given $240,000 to the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, which plans a new $90 million memorial project for Halifax Harbour where HMCS Sackville, a Second World War convoy escort, has served as Canada’s Naval Memorial since 1985. The Trust plans to raise...
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1 Recent re-creations in Ottawa and Korea of a championship hockey game held during the Korean War got me thinking about the importance of hockey in wartime. When young, healthy lads take to frozen ponds to play their national game near foreign battlefields, it’s not just...
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0 It may only have been a penny, but it made me feel rich, that ‘copper’ as Granddad called it, clutched in my pudgy little fist. Would I get five jelly babies? A few hot cinnamon candies? Gum? Or could I use my gap-tooth smile (feminine...
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0 While shooting in war zones, cameramen often zoom in on civilians. The faces flash by on our television screens, leaving viewers wondering what will happen to these hostages of fortune. Apparently the photographers wonder, too. In 2001 Nick Danziger took photos for the International Committee...
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0 On an expedition to find the northern sea more than 400 years ago, explorer Samuel de Champlain reaches the site of the modern city of Ottawa on the Ottawa River. More than 100 events have been planned so far to mark the occasion, including an...
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0 Historian Reginald Roy has died in Saanich, B.C., aged 91, leaving a legacy of a dozen books on military history, dozens of scholarly articles and hundreds of interviews with veterans taped over half a century. Just 16, Roy earned the moniker “Boy Roy” when he...
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Canada and the Holocaust
Many young Canadians may be unaware Canada has any connection to the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination program that claimed six million Jewish people and millions of others during the Second World War. That is about to change as Canada assumes chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance . In his speech at the hand-over...
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