
Vignettes from the life of a young woman in wartime Halifax
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

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

How Canadian women and girls crafted for victory in WW II

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

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

Facing a housing shortage as Canadians gravitated to urban centres during the Second World War, the federal government got building.



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