Henry Louis Norwest

The National Aboriginal Veterans Monument stands in our nation’s capital, Ottawa, as a reminder of all the brave Métis and First Nations members […]

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Between 1900 and 1915, forty political assassinations took place around the world. The most significant was the one referred to as the “spark […]

On Canada Day 2017, as millions of our fellow countrymen and women celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, we must take a moment to remember […]

By the time the Canadian Corps arrived in Flanders, Belgium, in October 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres had been raging for three […]

The Drocourt-Quéant Line, a section of the infamous Hindenburg Line, was one of the most strongly defended German defence systems in the First […]

August 8, 1918 is simultaneously referred to as “the Black Day of the German Army” and the first of Canada’s Hundred Days. The […]

Louis Riel was born on October 22, 1844, in the Red River Settlement, a predominantly Métis community situated within what today is called […]

October 13, 1812: The Battle of Queenston Heights. The first major battle of the War of 1812, this saw the British, Canadian, and […]

When the British declared war on the rebellious Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in September 1899 they assumed that […]