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Military History

Trench art

Soldiers engraved their stories in the soft metal of shell casings Railway engineer Patrick Joseph LeBlanc had a very long war. He enlisted in the 52nd

The regal beaver

  Our neighbours have fierce animal symbols. Nestled between the bear and the eagle, the dragon and the lion, on distant flanks, is…the beaver? Why

Fighting at forts of the Niagara front

The Niagara River runs roughly south-north between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, a vital transportation—and once communication—line in the Great Lakes. To safeguard their interests,

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

The taking of Xanten

By the spring of 1945, the Allies had driven German troops into a defensive pocket near Wesel, on the Rhine’s west bank. But there was

Art of Vimy

The war wasn’t over yet and already Vimy Ridge was being hailed back home as a seminal battle that could forever change Canada’s place in

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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.