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Nazi storm troopers fill the aisles as the crowd sings “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the opening of the German American Bund rally on Feb. 20, 1939, at Madison Square Garden. [Larry Froeber/NY Daily News Archive]
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That time they held a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden

A Digital Terrain Model of the wreck of SMS Cöln, taken at Scapa Flow in January 2017. [Innes McCartney]
  • Front Lines

Raising hell: Discovering, and recovering, lost warships

Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage

Canadian Troops preparing for attack at Paardeberg. [Wikimedia]
  • Military Milestones

Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage

Allied troops arrive in Iceland. [Wikimedia]
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When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork

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Editorial cartoonist Bob Chambers and Halifax in Wartime
Editorial cartoonist Bob Chambers and Halifax in Wartime
Through two world wars, Halifax was the anonymous “East Coast port” referenced...
Researchers identify remains of Franklin expedition skipper
Researchers identify remains of Franklin expedition skipper
They are the last known communications from the storied Arctic expedition led...
Stolen Churchill portrait coming home
Stolen Churchill portrait coming home
  An original print of one of the world’s most famous photographs,...
100 images of the 2024 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships: Part 2
100 images of the 2024 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships: Part 2
There must be something in the water they give those athletes at...
100 images of the 2024 Legion Nationals: Part 1
100 images of the 2024 Legion Nationals: Part 1
There must be something in the water they give those athletes at...
USS Pampanito: A genuine WW II relic on Fisherman’s Wharf
USS Pampanito: A genuine WW II relic on Fisherman’s Wharf
It is the rare wartime relic that can be claimed to have...

LATEST STORIES

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Bombs away
Bombs away
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Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
It’s 1944 and, as Allied armies fight their way through France, supply...
Finding their voices
Finding their voices
How a travelling exhibit and writing workshop have enabled veterans and military families...
Vision quest
Vision quest
On the state of Canada’s military and the recent defence policy update
The Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference
The 1864 Charlottetown Conference was initially designed to discuss a union of...
Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Carla-Jean Stokes says No Back in 2014, The Canadian Press obtained records...

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MILITARY HISTORY

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Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage
Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage
Paardeberg had changed everything. Between Feb. 18 and 27, 1900, one of the most famous clashes of the Boer War resulted in a British Empire...
Home Front
Bombs away
Bombs away
The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America
Military Milestones
When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork
When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork
May 10, 1940, was a British day of infamy. In mainland Europe, Hitler’s forces had carried out a blitzkrieg whereby France, Belgium, the Netherlands and...
Military Milestones
The forgotten grave of Canada’s first VC recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn
The forgotten grave of Canada’s first VC recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn
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...
Military Milestones
Québécois Catch-22: Roméo Dallaire and the FLQ Crisis
Québécois Catch-22: Roméo Dallaire and the FLQ Crisis
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,...
Face to Face
Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Carla-Jean Stokes says No Back in 2014, The Canadian Press obtained records outlining concerns bureaucrats raised to the Conservative government about its efforts to commemorate...
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Military History
In service, together
An exclusive excerpt from The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War
Heroes And Villains
Heroes and Villians: James Wolf vs Louis-Joseph De Montcalm
Heroes and Villians: James Wolf vs Louis-Joseph De Montcalm
The English and French generals both die in a decisive battle for New France
Military Milestones
The Battle of Bowmanville
The Battle of Bowmanville
“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...
Editorial
The B’ys back
The B’ys back
Newfoundland repatriates an unknown First World War soldier

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ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Growing membership and new initiatives
Growing membership and new initiatives
51st Saskatchewan Convention
51st Saskatchewan Convention
Culture change, equal rights and PTSD treatment highlight the 2022 CIMVHR forum
Culture change, equal rights and PTSD treatment highlight the 2022 CIMVHR forum
59th Quebec Convention
59th Quebec Convention
Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
RCAF establishes new space division
RCAF establishes new space division
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Home Front
Bombs away
Bombs away
The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America
Canada Corner
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
It’s 1944 and, as Allied armies fight their way through France, supply lines are stretched thin. The tools of war must travel from Normandy to...
Canada Corner
The Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference
The 1864 Charlottetown Conference was initially designed to discuss a union of the three Maritime provinces. But delegates from the Province of Canada heard about the...
Canada Corner
JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
When Canada welcomed Norwegian mariners exiled from their homeland by the Nazis, it brought new meaning to the country’s de facto national anthem—“Yes, we love...
Canada Corner
War measures
War measures
The War Measures Act went into law on Aug. 4, 1914, allowing the cabinet to bypass the House of Commons and the Senate and to rule...
Canada Corner
Licence to plunder
Licence to plunder
Privateers played an important role in wars throughout the 18th century
Canada Corner
“Those damn women” – Special web feature
“Those damn women” – Special web feature
Canadian female fighter jet pilots first took to the skies 30-plus years ago—but few have followed in their vapour trails
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Tinker Tailor Soldier CSIS
Tinker Tailor Soldier CSIS
The spy business is a complex, often dirty, game.

HEALTH

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Finding their voices
Finding their voices
How a travelling exhibit and writing workshop have enabled veterans and military families...
Lured by nature
Lured by nature
How a veterans’ fly-fishing program has embraced the healing power of the great...
Virtual healing
Virtual healing
Recovery for some wounded Afghanistan veterans is simulated
Disheartening data
Disheartening data
Latest survey of military sexual misconduct reveals little change
The dogs of postwar
The dogs of postwar
How mental health service animals help veterans. And a look at the...
It takes a village
It takes a village
The new Legion Veterans Village in Surrey, B.C., is offering unheralded opportunities...
Musical Medicine How music therapy helps heal veterans
Musical Medicine How music therapy helps heal veterans
How music therapy helps heal veterans
Corps health
Corps health
How a pilot team-fitness program showed connections between exercise and veteran mental health...

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The B’ys back
The B’ys back
Newfoundland repatriates an unknown First World War soldier
Changes to VAC benefit policy may concern you
ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
The Legion’s Leave the Streets Behind program
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ARTIFACTS

The Power of the dog
Pennon of peace
Brinkman’s box

MILITARY MILESTONES

Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage
When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork
The forgotten grave of Canada’s first VC recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn

HUMOUR HUNT

Flag flap
Loony tunes
Like stealing potatoes from a baby

FACE TO FACE

Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Face to face: Did, as Charles Stacey wrote in his official history of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Canada fail to make the most of its opportunities in the Normandy Campaign?
Should Canada replace its military as the first line of response to domestic disasters?

HEROES AND VILLIANS

Heroes and Villians: James Wolf vs Louis-Joseph De Montcalm
Heroes and Villians: Fox vs Rommel
Heroes and Villians: Canadian PoWs vs KURT Meyer

REMEMBRANCE

A memorial story
Remembrance for all
Lost, now found

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