The dim lights of Halifax—no longer in total blackout since the war’s tide had turned in the Allies’ favour—were visible from HMCS Esquimalt in the
“Canada does not propose to be dragged into a war in which she has no interest,” said Prime Minister Mackenzie King in a speech before
‘I’m fed up to the teeth,’ said Sergeant George Harry Mullin as he handed out rum rations to his Canadian comrades on Oct. 29, 1917.
How Canadian officers seconded to the British Army under the Canloan program fought for their comrades—and respect
How Vancouver’s 1945 Green Hill Park disaster reminded Canadians of the Halifax Explosion almost 30 years earlier.
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