How the widow of a WW II soldier killed in action got the news

It means courage and confidence in Dutch. Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the German army during the Second World War, embodied the phrase.

Recollections from the diaries of a Canadian who helped liberate the Netherlands

General Harry Crerar oversaw just one major battle—but the decisive early 1945 advance into Germany’s Rhineland was critical to ending WW II

How one Lancaster crew met the demise of so many in Bomber Command.

Known derisively as zombies, thousands of Canadian men were conscripted—originally for home defence—under the WW II National Resources Mobilization Act. Late in the war, many were forced to the front lines.