NOVEMBER 1-2, 1944
The 5th Canadian Brigade suffers 135 casualties while forcing its way across Walcheren causeway in the Battle of the Scheldt.

NOVEMBER 3, 1952
The 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry begins training in Korea before going into action.

NOVEMBER 4, 1924
The Canadian Vickers Vedette prototype takes flight.

NOVEMBER 5, 1940
The British armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay puts up a great fight, but is sunk by a German raider in the Atlantic.

NOVEMBER 6, 1917
Nine Canadians earn the Victoria Cross in the battle to capture the ruined village of Passchendaele, Belgium.

NOVEMBER 7, 1956
The first United Nations Emergency Task Force is established to end the Suez Crisis. Canada provides 1,000 personnel.

NOVEMBER 8, 1942
A German spy is dropped by U-boat off New Brunswick, and is later captured.

NOVEMBER 9, 1951
C Company of the Royal 22nd Regiment conducts a raid on Hill 166 in Korea.

NOVEMBER 10, 1812
The British fleet is driven into Kingston Harbour and the American navy gains control of Lake Ontario.

NOVEMBER 11, 1918
The First World War comes to an end.

NOVEMBER 12, 2001
HMCS Vancouver is part of a U.S. battle group departing San Diego, Calif., for the Persian Gulf.

NOVEMBER 13, 1775
Montreal falls to the American army, led by General Richard Montgomery.

NOVEMBER 14, 1935
The Noorduyn Norseman, the first all-Canadian designed and built bush plane, takes flight.

NOVEMBER 15, 1976
René Lévesque leads the separatist Parti Quebecois to power in Quebec.

NOVEMBER 16-17, 1915
A large-scale nighttime trench raid by Canadian troops serves as an example of how future raids should be conducted.

NOVEMBER 17, 1994
The federal government announces a public inquiry to investigate violence perpetrated against Somalis at a Canadian military compound.

NOVEMBER 18, 1942
Major Gustave Bieler is the first Canadian spy to be parachuted into France.

NOVEMBER 18-19, 1952
Four members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry are killed helping to drive back a Chinese attack against the Scottish Black Watch west of the Sami-ch’on in Korea.

NOVEMBER 20, 1917
The British launch a huge tank attack in the Battle of Cambrai, France. Fighting alongside are units of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and the Newfoundland Regiment.

NOVEMBER 21, 1954
The first vessel to circumnavigate North America, the icebreaker HMCS Labrador, arrives in Halifax.

NOVEMBER 22, 1914
Winter weather forces a halt to the fighting in the Ypres Salient, Belgium.

NOVEMBER 23, 1812
At French Mills, N.Y., British soldiers, Canadian militia and Akwesasne fighters launch a surprise retaliatory strike against American militia.

NOVEMBER 24, 2005
A Canadian soldier is killed in a traffic accident northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Three other soldiers suffer serious injuries.

NOVEMBER 25, 1953
HMCS Cayuga sails for duty off Korea for the third and final time.

NOVEMBER 26, 1943
Flight Sergeant Donald Cornish of Scout Lake, Sask., captains a night attack that destroys U-542.

NOVEMBER 27, 1951
Ceasefire negotiations are revived in Korea.

NOVEMBER 28, 1997
The United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti is established. Canada provides armoured personnel carriers, instructors and vehicle technicians, military police and staff officers.

NOVEMBER 29, 1965
The Canadian Space Agency satellite Alouette 2 is launched.

NOVEMBER 30, 1954
Winston Churchill marks his 80th birthday.

December On This Date Events
See the November/December 2014 issue of Legion Magazine.
Here’s a taste of what to expect.

DECEMBER 6, 1917
Close to 2,000 are killed and 9,000 wounded following a massive explosion in Halifax Harbour.