This story by The Canadian Press was widely published in Canadian papers and eagerly read across the country 78 years ago by war-weary citizens hungry
There is safety in numbers, so the saying goes. That was the thinking that led to the merging of two Second World War convoys headed
On June 16, 1943, Nazi aircraft downed a British Typhoon in the Strait of Dover, off Cap Gris-Nez in France. Flight Lieutenant John A. Spence
When domestic emergencies strike —such as the November 2021 B.C. floods—the Canadian military often comes to the rescue Over two days in November 2021, a “pineapple
In 1902, when most of the world thought heavier-than-air flight was a pipe dream, Wallace Rupert Turnbull began research into aeronautics in Rothesay, N.B.—and
Quick and quiet, this folding bike played a key Canadian role in Normandy The 14,000 Canadian troops that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, June
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On May 18, 1966, a lone man left the public galleries of the House of Commons during a debate and went to the men’s washroom
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They are among the most iconic images of the Second World War—blurred, grainy and, the best of them, as stirring and in-the-moment as any battlefield
In early March, the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, led an expedition 800 kilometres east of Australia, where he found the long-lost wreck of the
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
