AI EnhancedD-Day: General Crerar
Shortly after supper on the evening of June 1, 1944, the final official meeting discussing D-Day preparations took place. The…
AI EnhancedFredrick Peters, V.C.
November 8, 1942: Captain Fredrick Thornton Peters led an amphibious assault on the city of Oran, located on the western…
AI EnhancedHMCS Athabaskan
April 29, 1944: HMCS Athabaskan (the first of three destroyers to have that name) was torpedoed by the German light…
AI EnhancedBattle of Kapyong
April 24th, 1951: The 700 Soldiers of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry are entrenched atop Hill 677 which controls the…
AI EnhancedMTB 463 Sunk!
A month after D-Day, the Germans remained persistent in their attempts to foil Allied reinforcements from across the channel. Although…
AI EnhancedBattle of the Atlantic
March, 1943: The technological cat-and-mouse race between the Royal Canadian Navy and the German Kriegsmarine’s U-boats finally shifted in favour…
AI EnhancedBattle of Coronel
In an effort to halt German commerce-raiding activities at sea, the Royal Navy had sent Rear Admiral Cradock and a…
AI EnhancedHenry Norwest
During the First World War over four thousand Aboriginal people served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. During the first part…
AI EnhancedHMCS Bonaventure
January 21, 1957: After a 5-year refit that began in 1952, Canada's last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure, was commissioned. "Bonnie"…
AI EnhancedJohn McCrae
John McCrae was born in 1872 in Guelph, Ontario. He would grow-up in Guelph attending the local collegiate and serving…
AI EnhancedNorth African Campaign
On February 2, 1943, a group of Canadian officers arrived in North Africa. The North African Campaign had been raging…
AI EnhancedRobert Gray, V.C.
August 9, 1945: In the waning days of the Second World War, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray of the Royal Canadian…