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Paige Jasmine Gilmar

Canada’s early naval struggles

“This is going to be an awful trip,” sailor James Reeves reflected in a letter to his wife. Reeves was by no means a complainer,

Builders of the Alaska Highway

Rarely does one of the world’s most popular magazines compare a construction project to a “task befitting Paul Bunyan,” but that was written in the

Storm front

Decades after the Second World War, Canada discovers a Nazi weather station in Labrador

Nellie McClung, a military mother

A suffragist, reformer, legislator and author—Nellie McClung was an early-20th century jack-of-all-trades, perhaps best known for helping to forever change the course of Canadian women’s

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,”

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