Lowering the Maple Leaf
On Dec. 1, 2011, at a quiet ceremony in Afghanistan, the Maple Leaf flag was lowered for the last time in Kandahar as Canadian troops
Sharon Adams
December 1, 2021
On Dec. 1, 2011, at a quiet ceremony in Afghanistan, the Maple Leaf flag was lowered for the last time in Kandahar as Canadian troops
When a Japanese vice-admiral surrendered in 1945, he also handed over his tachi Canadian Navy Lieutenant William Lore was aboard when the British fleet sailed into
In mid-November 1956, 950 men of the 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, were flown to Halifax, where HMCS Magnificent was being prepared to
Weasel words, workarounds and loopholes: the first arms control treaty was short-lived In November 1921, back when Britannia still ruled the waves, representatives of five war-weary
In 1951, Ottawa was making plans for peacetime compulsory military service Conscription—compulsory enlistment for state service, typically in the armed forces—has been one of the
It was a grim November day when medical technician Corporal Dolorès Crampton escorted the body of her partner, Cpl. Nicolas Beauchamp, home from Afghanistan. Beauchamp,
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