The next issue of Canada’s Ultimate Story is How Canada conquered VIMY RIDGE. Help choose the cover by casting your vote. It will soon be 105 years since the capture of Vimy Ridge by Canadian soldiers on April 9-12, 1917, and the battle has come to hold a sacred place in our memory of the First World War. Find out how and why the battle was fought and how generations of Canadians have come to understand its meaning—in the latest issue of Canada’s Ultimate Story.   Loading…

Lytton, B.C., was devastated by wildfire on June 30.  The hospital, ambulance station and pharmacy were destroyed.The bank, museum, coffee shop, both grocery stores, all gone. And with them, Lytton Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion.  “It’s going to be a challenge,” said Branch President Sheila Maguire in an interview with Legion Magazine  in August. “But we’ll forge on.” It won’t be easy. It won’t be cheap. And it won’t be fast.  The outer walls of the building have collapsed. “We won’t be salvaging anything,” Maguire said. At the end of August she was sorting out insurance issues, too busy to think too far ahead. But she hopes a new building is in the future for the branch, a meeting place for the town’s 250 or so residents and about 2,500 people who live up and down the valley. ...

The Royal Canadian Legion has digitized a real Flanders poppy to commemorate its 100th year as a symbol of remembrance.  Dubbed the “Immortal Poppy,” the project has created highly detailed virtual copies of a hand-plucked, fully bloomed poppy sourced from Flanders Fields. The petals of the digital flower are 3D and rotatable and bear the names of all Canadian war dead spanning from the First World War.  The poppies will be auctioned off in online marketplaces as limited-edition pieces of digital artwork, with the 100th copy saved for use by the Legion. Each will be presented as a non-fungible token, a type of digital file that is serialized and authenticated on purchase, making each file unique to the buyer. Proceeds of the Immortal Poppy campaign go to the Legion’s poppy fund, used t...