With overwhelming odds against returning safely from a mission, Second World War Bomber Command aircrews resorted to superstition and ritual
As the Second World War wound down, Ottawa assumed wartime working women would return to homemaking—the women had other ideas “Whether I marry or not,
A legion of demobilized servicemen settled in Western Canada after the Armistice. On the field of battle, they developed alertness and wisdom, and they will
It was 1939 and the Canadian Car and Foundry Company’s (Can-Car) new FDB-1 fighter-bomber had just demonstrated that it could out-climb a Hurricane or Spitfire.
What was it like to be conscripted during the First World War? In 1910, William Joseph Rowntree dropped out of school to work full time
On the frigid Winnipeg morning of Feb. 19, 1942, Diane Edgelow’s mother sent her out to buy a loaf of bread. She was 12 years
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
