Pilgrims In The Shadow Of War
At 5:20 a.m., July 16, 2009, on a rocky beach in France, a group of 30 Canadians raise a toast in a solemn, if impromptu,
Sharon Adams
November 7, 2009
At 5:20 a.m., July 16, 2009, on a rocky beach in France, a group of 30 Canadians raise a toast in a solemn, if impromptu,
Every teacher since Plato has probably heard the same complaint more than once: “History is nothing but a bunch of boring names and dates!” For
In June, Blair Moro, 16, of Surrey, B.C., and Solange Saulnier, 17, of Haut-Rivière-du-Portage, N.B., represented the youth of Canada on the Veterans Affairs Canada
Early morning, Nov. 25, 2008: One by one the large tour buses stop in the tight laneway running parallel to the Adriatic’s western shore. It
Of all the expressions known to humankind, nothing captures the essence of remembrance more than a prolonged period of silence. When the First World War
The shooting this summer of a South Korean tourist cast an uncomfortable shadow over the Veterans Affairs Canada delegation that had come to Seoul to
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