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 […]

SGT. Andrew Doiron

March 10, 2015: Sgt Andrew Joseph Doiron is repatriated, arriving in Trenton on board a C-17 transport. As always, it is absolutely inspiring […]

Christmas in Ortona

For the Canadian troops fighting their way through the Italian Front in December 1943, Christmas would prove to be a challenging time. Leading […]

George Price

Canadian George Lawrence Price has the unfortunate distinction of being the last Commonwealth soldier killed on the Western Front during the First World […]