On Sept. 25, 1975, Vic Thompson of Manotick, Ont., joined a small contingent of Canadian veterans bound for South Korea. Boarding a flight from Los
It was around 11 a.m. on Aug. 4, 1940, when Margaret Beal bid farewell to all she had ever known. Departing on a train from
American farmer Lyman Cutlar had a pig problem. In 1859, having settled on San Juan Island—land contested between the British Empire and the United States
“Tell 14 the Queen’s terrace is wide,” said the BBC presenter over radio airwaves on June 1, 1944. To most listeners in occupied France, the
On May 31, 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging formally ended the Boer War, leaving the British Empire victorious against the South African Republic (or Transvaal)
It was on or around Sept. 10, 1945, when the former Canadian prisoners of Ohashi prisoner-of-war camp in Japan laid eyes on their salvation. The
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
