Battle of Coronel
In an effort to halt German commerce-raiding activities at sea, the Royal Navy had sent Rear Admiral Cradock and a squadron of old […]
Henry Norwest
During the First World War over four thousand Aboriginal people served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. During the first part of the war […]
HMCS Bonaventure
January 21, 1957: After a 5-year refit that began in 1952, Canada’s last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure, was commissioned. “Bonnie” was originally the […]
John McCrae
John McCrae was born in 1872 in Guelph, Ontario. He would grow-up in Guelph attending the local collegiate and serving as a cadet […]
North African Campaign
On February 2, 1943, a group of Canadian officers arrived in North Africa. The North African Campaign had been raging back and forth […]
Robert Gray, V.C.
August 9, 1945: In the waning days of the Second World War, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserves […]
William Hall, V.C.
Canada’s 4th Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship: PO William Hall V.C. The ship is named after a Nova Scotian who became the first Black […]
The Falaise Pocket
Two months after the landings in Normandy, the Allied armies remained within a fairly narrow strip of land west of Caen, France. The […]
Newfoundland Patriotic Association
August 12, 1914: The Newfoundland Patriotic Association (NPA) is formed. Eventually becoming the colony’s Department of Militia, the NPA was responsible for coordinating […]