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On this date: December 2016

  1 DECEMBER 1940 HMCS Saguenay is torpedoed on escort duty; 21 die, but the ship can be repaired. 2 DECEMBER 1963 The 24,000-km undersea

WWII Origins of the Paralympic Games

In honour of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Legion Magazine highlights the military ties to the history of the Games in this short video

Military Moments: Battle of Beaumont-Hamel

“Every July 1, while the rest of Canada celebrates the birth of a nation, Newfoundlanders mourn their losses in the Great War, and especially those at

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Here is a naval yarn from John MacLean, Georgetown, Ont.: Engaged in NATO exercises off Bermuda, the Canadian aircraft-carrier Bonaventure overtook an old American submarine

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Some troops were stationed at an old country manor in England that boasted a swimming pool, though it was full of stagnant water from wartime

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David Bowen-Colthurst tells this fishing story about Terrace, B.C., site of a big army training camp during the Second World War.  In those days the

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