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Riot Acts

Sharon Adams — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:00:04 +0000

In Calgary—as in other communities across Canada—Great War tensions with German immigrants boiled over in 1916

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Vignettes from the life of a young woman in wartime Halifax

Stephen A. Harper — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:18:04 +0000

My mother Ruth Pigott and her parents Olive and Louis lived in Halifax in the 1940s. It was a bustling, turbulent time for the picturesque old city, the population of which doubled from 1939 to 1944. Despite being a garrison town since its founding, the relationship between the citizens of Halifax and the navy was …

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The Quilt Makers

Alex Bowers — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:29:11 +0000

How Canadian women and girls crafted for victory in WW II

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Minesweeper mystery

Mark Bourrie — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:15:26 +0000

What happened to two First World War French warships in Lake Superior

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The Nuremberg trials

Don Gillmor — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:55:36 +0000

Long before the end of the Second World War, Allied leaders discussed what to do about German war crimes. News of atrocities had already reached both British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. At the 1943 Tehran Conference, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin suggested executing 50,000-100,000 German officers and political leaders. Churchill …

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Excerpt from O Canada: War & Hockey

Stephen Smith — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:13:03 +0000

Hockey is the game we hold dearest in Canada, the one we define ourselves by, still. It’s a haven for our identity, and it’s where we cultivate our national pride— and store our strategic reserve of contradictions, too. We like to think of it as a natural resource, of course, hewn from the wintry north, …

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The nation grows

Don Gillmor — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:10:37 +0000

Manitoba became a province of Canada in 1870, though at the time it didn’t extend much past the Red River Valley (it wasn’t until 1912 that it expanded to its current boundaries). In 1871, B.C. became a province. Between them, was a vast area then known as the North-West Territories. The West was rapidly changing; …

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Not again

Alex Bowers — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:14:28 +0000

A fiery footnote in history, the July 1945 Bedford Magazine explosion almost became a second Halifax disaster 27 years after the first.

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THE ATOMIC BOMB

Don Gillmor — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:32:26 +0000

In December 1942, a group of scientists led by Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in an abandoned squash court at the University of Chicago. The race to build the first atomic bomb had begun. One of the first items the Manhattan Project, as the initiative was known, needed was a supply …

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The Invictus Games 2025

Legion Magazine — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:24:06 +0000

A Photo Tribute to Resilience and Brotherhood: Invictus Games 2025

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