In 1916, the city was in the throes of one of its coldest winters when the fire alarm was sounded at 8:57 p.m. In just a few hours, Canada’s seat of power was a pile of smouldering ruins.
Tommy Prince honed his early tracking skills to deadly perfection. “He used to carry a pair of moccasins in his bag with him…he was deathly quiet,” recalled a comrade. “The Germans thought he was a ghost or a devil. They could never figure out how he passed the lines and the sentries.”
The citizens of Port Arthur, Ont., (now part of Thunder Bay) even offered $1,000 in prize money if the ship named for their town destroyed a Nazi submarine.
In January 1943, the sailors of HMCS Port Arthur earned that prize.
Canada’s military and armed forces around the world are taking steps to fight climate change by reducing their emissions It is, as the old saying
He was a decorated First World War air ace, a business titan and a spymaster who set up the British espionage system in the Americas, schooled the United States in undercover operations and established a spy school in Canada.
A venerable search-and-rescue plane, the de Havilland CC-115 retired from service one year ago
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
