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American versus Canadian bravado: The Devil’s Brigade on the silver screen

Historian Mark Zuehlke was no older than 13 when he watched the...

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Private to General: Remembering Jacques Dextraze

Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Dextraze, having travelled more than three kilometres behind enemy lines,...

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Jacques Cartier finds Newfoundland

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The blind side

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Security system

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Find-Share-Discuss: November/December 2015

James H. Robertson of Victoria sent us photos of his grandfather, George...

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Find-Share-Discuss: September/October 2015

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Find-Share-Discuss: July/August 2015

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Dog fight

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The dogs of postwar

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A memorial story

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The dogs of postwar

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It takes a village

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Musical Medicine How music therapy helps heal veterans

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