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October 4, 2023

A Canadian earns a VC leading a British charge

Philip Eric Bent was a man among tigers, serving as the youngest lieutenant-colonel in the British army. Fighting with the Leicestershire Regiment, nicknamed “The Tigers,”

Lights. Camera. Action?

Before Canadian-born movie director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic) there was James Freer, Canada’s first filmmaker. Born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, Freer moved to Manitoba in

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