Reverend William Andrew White
Courtesy of Mathias Joost, CD In the Canadian Militia prior to the First World War, there was little opportunity for Black men […]
WO Herbert Peterson
April 27 and 28, 1942: Warrant Officer Herbert Victor Peterson of Calgary piloted a Halifax four-engine bomber on mining missions against the German […]
Crash of SWISSAIR 111
On the 2nd of September 1998, Swissair Flight 111 took off from JFK Airport in New York on a scheduled flight to Geneva, […]
Commander Charles “Chuck” Mawer
Charles “Chuck” Mawer was born in 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A year after graduating high school he joined the Naval Reserve as a […]
Inuk L/CPL John Shiwak
Referred to as the best sniper in the British Army by those who served beside him, Lance Corporal John Shiwak (1889-1917) bravely served […]
Weapons in Star Wars
Did you know that many of the weapons found in the original Star Wars trilogy were influenced by British, German, and Swiss made […]
Conn Smythe
As the NHL 2016-17 season closed, Pittsburgh Penguin Sydney Crosby added another chapter to his storied hockey career when he formally received the […]
The Great Escape: Floody + The Fox
On the evening of March 24, 1944, nine Canadians tensely waited in Hut 104 for their numbers to be called. They had been […]
Matron Margaret Fraser
Matron Margaret Marjory Fraser, from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, was a nursing sister working aboard the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle when it was […]