On this date: March 2022
1 March 1633 After three years of English occupation, Samuel de Champlain is reinstated as the commander of New France. 2 March 2011 HMCS Charlottetown heads
Legion Magazine
March 9, 2022
1 March 1633 After three years of English occupation, Samuel de Champlain is reinstated as the commander of New France. 2 March 2011 HMCS Charlottetown heads
2 January 1929 Canada and the United States sign a joint agreement to protect and beautify Niagara Falls. 3 January 1947 Mackenzie King becomes Canada’s
1 February 1796 The town of York becomes Upper Canada’s second capital; it would be renamed Toronto in 1834. 4 February 1915 Lieutenant William Sharpe is
4 December 1944 Canadians capture Ravenna, Italy. 5 December 2001 In return for amnesty, Mullah Mohammad Omar surrenders Kandahar to Hamid Karzai, leader of the
1 November 1914 In a battle off the coast of Chile, four midshipmen are the first Canadian naval casualties of the First World War,
1 January 1945 Losses are heavy as hundreds of aircraft attack Allied airfields in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Luftwaffe’s last major offensive of
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