PHOTOS: CSTMC/CN COLLECTION—CN003133; CSTMC/CN COLLECTION—CN005243; CSTMC/CN COLLECTION—CN001565; CSTMC/CN COLLECTION—CN001679 From top: Lady Rodney arrives in Montreal; fine furniture and white linen add elegance to the
PHOTOS: DAN BLACK AND ADAM DAY Clockwise from top: Valour Bridge was officially named in a ceremony on Dec. 1; serving members of the Canadian
PHOTO: FREDERICK G. WHITCOMBE, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA107933 Canadians and their vehicles advance towards the Moro River in Italy on Dec. 10, 1943. Historians have
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA104322 Captain E.S. Brand (third left) disembarks from a destroyer in 1940. It is conventional wisdom that the Allies entered into
PHOTO: J. McNULTY, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA065566 A Lockheed Lodestar transport aircraft on a journey in May 1945. A look around the globe confirms that
ILLUSTRATION: DAVID BADOUR “If disaster be inevitable, make the best of it, is what Confucius is popularly supposed to have advised. No doubt Confucius said
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