Alex Bowers

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

Historian Mark Zuehlke was no older than 13 when he watched the Canadians march onto the big screen in 1968’s The Devil’s Brigade. He remembers

Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Dextraze, having travelled more than three kilometres behind enemy lines, parked his Bren Gun Carrier outside the German headquarters in Groningen, Netherlands. He

On May 4, 1910, the Naval Service Bill received royal assent. Canada now had a navy, but troubled waters lay behind and ahead of the

“Kill the American pigs,” the Chinese officer yelled to his troops during the night of April 24-25, 1951. For most Canadian defenders holding a desolate