War and the women’s vote
This year marks the 100th anniversary of not only the end of the First World War, but also the extension of the federal suffrage to
Valerie Knowles
March 7, 2018
This year marks the 100th anniversary of not only the end of the First World War, but also the extension of the federal suffrage to
“Our Boys Want Smokes,” trumpets a First World War storefront window poster sponsored by the Over-Seas Club. “For 25 cents we send a dollar’s worth.
Time spent in the trenches of the First World War was miserable. Not only were chances of being killed or wounded high, but Canadian soldiers
It was 1942 and one evening 20-year-old Winnifred Davidson, known as Davey to her friends, was whisked away from Toronto in an unmarked maroon car
On the frigid Winnipeg morning of Feb. 19, 1942, Diane Edgelow’s mother sent her out to buy a loaf of bread. She was 12 years
On April 1, 1942, Canada’s Minister of National War Services, Joseph T. Thorson, issued a statement advising his fellow citizens that the country’s human and
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