HMHS Llandovery Castle and Nursing Sister Dussault
On June 27, 1918, the Canadian hospital ship HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. The ship was properly marked […]
No. 2 Construction Battalion
Courtesy of Mathias Joost, CD At the start of the First World War tens of thousands of men rushed to recruiting centres […]
The Siberian Expeditionary Force
August 12, 1918: The Canadian government authorized the creation of the Siberian Expeditionary Force to intervene in the Russian Civil War; Canada was […]
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 […]
The Danger Tree at Beaumont-Hamel
On Canada Day 2017, as millions of our fellow countrymen and women celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday, we must take a moment to remember […]
Passchendaele
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
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: The Black Day of the German Army
August 8, 1918 is simultaneously referred to as “the Black Day of the German Army” and the first of Canada’s Hundred Days. The […]