First kills
After the First World War, Canadians became some of the most renowned aerial aces. Here’s where it all began.
Stephen J. Thorne
November 14, 2025
After the First World War, Canadians became some of the most renowned aerial aces. Here’s where it all began.
Prince Edward Island Command of The Royal Canadian Legion is no more—in name, that is. In one of his last official acts at the helm of the
The bells that rang out across allied nations after the First World War ended what for many had been a four-year silence enforced by regulation
Continued from “Front lines,” Sept. 24, 2025. Three years later to the day of Captain William Arthur Peel Durie’s death, a soldier wrote Durie’s mother
In the dark of a summer’s night in 1925, four shadowy figures—two women and two men—stole into the Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France, dug
Mention parasol and one might think of Mary Poppins floating among the chimneys of London or Impressionistic images of dainty Victorian-era ladies at refined picnics
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.