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Military History

Lost, now found

How Canada’s once unknown war dead are being identified

The many sides of Arthur Currie

Arthur Currie just didn’t seem military enough. Labelled as “embarrassingly unassuming,” he didn’t fit the make of the moustachioed, macho general. Instead, he was pudgy,

Down but not out

A military man of high intellect but a lack of charm, Eedson L.M. (Tommy) Burns never stopped fighting

The pied piper of Ancre Heights

Throughout James Cleland Richardson service, he breathed life onto First World War battlefields by playing songs on his bagpipes. None of his tunes, however, held

The first all-Canadian bush plane

When Robert B.C. Noorduyn set out to create Canada’s first bush plane, his design boiled down to three fundamental criteria: be economical, make loading easy

The happy pilot

A granddaughter learns the wartime secret(s) of the gruff former Royal Air Force flyer she knew growing up

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