An RCMP constable who volunteered for overseas service recalls the infamous raid in his own words Captain Edward Hammond Stevenson commanded the Dieppe detachment of
He signed in the wrong place, but representing Canada at Japan’s surrender was still a career highlight for soldier-diplomat Lawrence Cosgrave Laughter rippled over the
During the Second World War, 21-year-old Allan Coburn was one of a million young men and women whose sense of duty and hankering for adventure
It can be extraordinary who and what you will find when digging into family history. In an article for Legion Magazine last year, CBC journalist
Hormidas Odilon (Henry) Goulet enlisted with the 22nd Battalion in Montreal in 1914. When he gave his name, the officer apparently told him, “We’ll call
My great-great-grandfather was a surgeon who treated soldiers at the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866 It is a largely forgotten battle, even though it was
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
