90th Anniversary of the end of the First World War

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    A Journey Of Learning

    January 8, 2009 by Sharon Adams
    Students look out from the Newfoundland memorial over the battlefield at Beaumont-Hamel. PHOTO: SHARON ADAMS Of all the expressions known to humankind, nothing captures the essence of remembrance more than a prolonged period of silence. When the First World War ended 90 years ago on...
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    The War That Changed The World

    September 7, 2008 by Tim Cook
    Canadian soldiers—by the truckload—celebrate after the Battle of Vimy Ridge. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA001353 Canada is on the razor’s edge of lived memory. At the time of writing this story, there is only one Canadian veteran left alive from the First World War. In...