AUTHOR: CRAIG K. MACDONALD; PROJECT SPONSOR: ONTARIO GEOGRAPHIC NAMES BOARD; PHOTOS: D’ARCY JENISH; DR. W.H. ELLIS, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA121317 Top: A detail from the
PHOTO: METROPOLIS STUDIO The Diefenbunker’s massive vault. There are many ways to spend $14 during a visit to Ottawa, but anyone who makes the short
PHOTO: ALEX STIRTON, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA177155 A tank, carrying Canadian soldiers, heads towards Potenza, Italy, in September 1943. When Operation Baytown–the Anglo-Canadian invasion of
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA116719; PA107907 Top: A Canso flying boat observes the surrender of U-889 (left) to the Canadian navy off Nova Scotia in
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA126721 Percy Nelles (front row centre) poses with other sailors on board HMCS Niobe in 1910. The worst years of the
ILLUSTRATION: Fred Sebastian When they piped Rig of the Day on that fateful morning in 1945, they ordered us to don our Burberries, not our
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
