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The 1943 battle in the Italian mountains
Military History
August 2, 2022
The 1943 battle in the Italian mountains

Infantrymen of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment advance in a personnel carrier toward Nissoria, Sicily, in July 1943. At the beginning of August 1943, after nearly a month of hard fighting in Sicily, the Canadian

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Battle of the St. Lawrence: Diving the wartime wrecks of Bell Island
Defence Today
August 2, 2022
Battle of the St. Lawrence: Diving the wartime wrecks of Bell Island

Jill Heinerth at Chukk Lagoon. The explorer and underwater photographer has made more than 7,800 dives, including over 20 on the wartime wrecks off Bell Island, N.L. Jill Heinerth has made more than 7,800

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Constructive dismissal
Army
July 29, 2022
Constructive dismissal

8 myths of Black service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force—and the actual realities they faced 

In the fall of 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter H. Allen, the white commander of the 106th Overseas Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), met with a Black Baptist minister, Reverend William

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Arresting development
Front Lines
July 28, 2022
Arresting development

The Juno Beach Centre is at the heart of the area where Canadian troops landed at Courseulles-sur-Mer.

Opposition to a French developer’s plan to build condominiums at the site where Canadian

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Unfit for action overseas during WW I, Albert Goodwin fought at home for workers’ rights
Military History
July 26, 2022
Unfit for action overseas during WW I, Albert Goodwin fought at home for workers’ rights

Albert Goodwin emigrated from England to Canada in 1906, arriving in Cumberland, B.C., in the fall of 1910 where he worked as a mule driver in the No. 5 mine. Albert Goodwin, known as “Ginger,” due to his red hair,

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Battle of the Atlantic: A U-boat hunter remembers
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July 26, 2022
Battle of the Atlantic: A U-boat hunter remembers

Elmer Auld, 98, of Thunder Bay, Ont., says he thinks of the war at sea every day. His experiences as a U-boat hunter aboard an escort vessel on transatlantic convoy duty fostered a lifelong appreciation for the

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 1 AUGUST 1957 Canada and the United States form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) to integrate air defences.   2 AUGUST 1909 The...
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The 1943 battle in the Italian mountains
The 1943 battle in the Italian mountains
At the beginning of August 1943, after nearly a month of hard fighting in Sicily, the Canadian advance was threatened by three mountains towering more...
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8 myths of Black service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force—and the actual realities they faced  In the fall of 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter H. Allen, the white commander...
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Unfit for action overseas during WW I, Albert Goodwin fought at home for workers’ rights
Unfit for action overseas during WW I, Albert Goodwin fought at home for workers’ rights
Albert Goodwin, known as “Ginger,” due to his red hair, emigrated to Canada in 1906 and began working in a mine on Vancouver Island. The...
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The ties that bind
The ties that bind
PoWs bore the brunt of a shackling spat during the Second World War  When Canadians hit the beaches at Dieppe in August 1942, they were ordered to prevent...
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