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Front Lines
Estate auction chronicles the colourful life of war correspondent Bill Boss
Bill Boss was the epitome of foreign correspondents. Pierre Berton called him one of the toughest war correspondents he ever...
Front Lines
The Fence: Documentary exposes Japan’s wartime abuses
There is a scene an hour into Viveka Melki’s documentary The Fence in which George Peterson, the last surviving soldier...
Front Lines
The fighting Robertson brothers of Campbellton, N.B.
“The whole city was so proud of these six boys.” There were six of them, Robertsons all, who joined the...
Defence Today
Space, deep-sea tourism coming in 2021—if you’ve got the bucks
With a pandemic raging, governments urged wishful travellers to stay close to home in 2020. In 2021, new travel options...
Canada & the Victoria Cross
Stuff of legend: ingredients that make the Victoria Cross
Everyone knows what a Victoria Cross recipient is made of. But what about the Victoria Cross itself? Instituted by Queen...
Front Lines
Disaster aboard HMCS Kootenay
The worst peacetime disaster in Canadian naval history occurred 51 years ago this week when nine crew were killed and...
Front Lines
Unmanned spy vessel washes up on Scottish island; nobody claims it
A mysterious, low-profile craft, identified as a robotic spy vessel, has washed up on Scotland’s Isle of Tiree not far...
COVID-19
Climate anomaly caused
WW I mud, flu pandemic: study
The First World War is synonymous with torrential rain, deathly deep mud and bitter cold. It seems no stalemate or...
Front Lines
James Andrew Watson: WW II bomber pilot sacrifices life to save crew
It was the night of April 27-28, 1944, and Lancaster R-ND 781/G of 622 Squadron, Royal Air Force, piloted by...
MEMOIRS
Letters to Mom
During the Second World War, 21-year-old Allan Coburn was one...
Cross Border Doctor
It can be extraordinary who and what you will find...
Pépère’s war story
Hormidas Odilon (Henry) Goulet enlisted with the 22nd Battalion in...
Battlefield doctor
My great-great-grandfather was a surgeon who treated soldiers at the...
Canada’s man in Havana
The story of a young Canadian diplomat spying on the...
Buried alive at the Somme
When I was a young child of four or five,...
My dad, the air force doctor
The nooks and crannies of my parents’ red-brick house in Halifax...
The Silent Ward
The author was a nurse in the First World War....
Not all Veterans wore uniforms
Story by Brian Purdy Son of Gordon Purdy Through the...
Tears of Remembrance
At the first strains of the anthem, backs straightened and...
Remembrance
On Remembrance Day or, for a naval veteran, Battle of...
The search for an old contemptible
It all started with a random tweet. My first inclination...
MILITARY HISTORY
Military Milestones
The disappearance of <em>HMCS Shawinigan</em>
The disappearance of HMCS Shawinigan
After the ferry SS Caribou was sunk by a U-boat in October 1942 with a loss of 137, including many women and children, the navy provided escorts to ensure the safety of passengers. Near the end of the war, HMCS...
Military History
Gunners on ice
Gunners on ice
As the war on the Western Front ended, the Allies took on the Red Army on its own turf It was all Winston Churchill’s fault. In 1918, he was Minister of Munitions in Prime Minister Lloyd George’s Liberal government. In 1919, he became Secretary of...
Navy
Navy changes its junior ranks
Navy changes its junior ranks
The Royal Canadian Navy has renamed its junior ranks to better reflect what its commander called the “ever-evolving international and domestic contexts in which we live and operate.” As part of that effort, the navy has dispensed with its ‘Seaman’...
HEALTH
Pandemic shines light on problems in long-term care facilities
Pandemic shines light on problems in long-term care facilities
Veteran Fraser (Tommy) Gray, 88,...
Climate anomaly caused <br> WW I mud, flu pandemic: study
Climate anomaly caused
WW I mud, flu pandemic: study
The First World War is...
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Liberation of the Netherlands | Narrated by Roméo Dallaire
Liberation of the Netherlands | Narrated by Roméo Dallaire
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William Shatner | Battle of Vimy Ridge
William Shatner | Battle of Vimy Ridge
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The Dieppe Raid | Narrated by Alex Trebek
The Dieppe Raid | Narrated by Alex Trebek
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Battle of the Somme | Narrated by Linden MacIntyre
Battle of the Somme | Narrated by Linden MacIntyre
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Interactive maps now telling Canada’s military history
Interactive maps now telling Canada’s military history
Canadians interested in military history will soon have a new—and free—interactive tool for researching the Canadian Army’s Italian Campaign during the Second World War. Several years ago, the Canadian Research...
Navy changes its junior ranks
Navy changes its junior ranks
The Royal Canadian Navy has renamed its junior ranks to better reflect what its commander called the “ever-evolving international and domestic contexts in which we live and operate.” As part...
Choose our cover for the next issue of Legion Magazine!
Choose our cover for the next issue of Legion Magazine!
Click on above cover to enlarge. Help choose the January/February 2021 issue of Legion Magazine! The January/February 2021 issue of Legion Magazine looks at the Battle of Verdun in the...
Trip inspired Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Trip inspired Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Almost a quarter century ago, The Royal Canadian Legion spearheaded in the creation of the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier of the First...
Face to Face
Face to Face | Was All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) the most important war film ever made?
Face to Face | Was All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) the most important war film ever made?
All Quiet on the Western Front is an Academy Award-winning 1930 film based on the classic anti-war novel by a German veteran of the First World War, Erich Maria Remarque. Coming 12 years after the First World War ended and...
Editorial
A different day
A different day
Remembrance Day looks different this year, but it is no less meaningful. Pandemic restrictions have had an enormous impact on The Royal Canadian Legion nationwide. Since closing their doors in March, branch social activities—darts, trivia nights, award presentations, wedding receptions—have...
Editorial
A sacred place
A sacred place
It has been 20 years since an unknown soldier who died in the fighting at Vimy Ridge in France during the First World War was reinterred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa. There are previous examples of...

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Front Lines is a weekly podcast produced by Legion Magazine, Canada’s leading military history publication. Join writer Stephen J. Thorne each week for fascinating stories and compelling commentary on Canada’s rich military past and present.

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Legion Magazine engages Canadians in commemorating the effort, bravery and sacrifice of those who served and continue to serve in Canada’s military. From the War of 1812 to modern armed forces missions around the world, Legion Magazine offers a blend of stories, photographs, graphics, maps and posters on Canadian military history and heritage, veterans’ issues and the Canadian Armed Forces. Legion Magazine is published six times a year in English with a French insert. Legion Magazine is published by Canvet Publications Ltd.

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