Customers visit a St. Lawrence Market fruit stand in the early 1900s. PHOTO: ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO—F4436-0-0-0-113 George Tsioros—proprietor of the Olympic Food and Cheese Mart
Lieut. Iain Beck of Ottawa, a doctor on deployment in Afghanistan, gives medicine to a child. PHOTO: CPL. ROBIN MUGRIDGE, TASK FORCE AFGHANISTAN, ROTO 1
Norm Carnell has his eye on a big rock about two feet under the surface of water in Lake Joseph. The Royal Navy veteran makes
These engineers say jokingly that they tell their wives and daughters that they’re in Afghanistan working as cooks, or building wells, or fixing schools, or
Stirlings (above) were used as glider tugs and transports. PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES—PL45293 Official Royal Canadian Air Force histories of the Second World War have, of
The first corvettes of the NEF head to St. John’s, Nfld., May 1941. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA037447 Until the spring of 1941, the Royal
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