AI EnhancedWilliam 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…
AI EnhancedThe Falaise Pocket
Two months after the landings in Normandy, the Allied armies remained within a fairly narrow strip of land west of…
AI EnhancedNewfoundland Patriotic Association
August 12, 1914: The Newfoundland Patriotic Association (NPA) is formed. Eventually becoming the colony's Department of Militia, the NPA was…
AI EnhancedSGT. Andrew Doiron
March 10, 2015: Sgt Andrew Joseph Doiron is repatriated, arriving in Trenton on board a C-17 transport. As always, it…
AI EnhancedChristmas in Ortona
For the Canadian troops fighting their way through the Italian Front in December 1943, Christmas would prove to be a…
AI EnhancedGeorge Price
Canadian George Lawrence Price has the unfortunate distinction of being the last Commonwealth soldier killed on the Western Front during…
AI EnhancedHMCS Sackville
September 28-29, 2003 – The Flower class corvette HMCS Sackville earns the dubious distinction of becoming the last Second World…
AI EnhancedPeck and Metcalfe (V.C.’s)
September 2nd, 1918: During the final 100 Days campaign of the First World War, one of the toughest battles fought…
AI EnhancedSea Kings
August 1, 1963: The first two CH-124 Sea King maritime helicopters arrive at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater, Halifax. For over…
AI EnhancedWehrmacht-planned Great Escape
May 1943: the tide turned in the Atlantic and more U-boats were sunk than cargo ships. But just before the…
AI EnhancedHMCS Chebogue
Oct. 4, 1944: The River-class frigate HMCS Chebogue (K317) is struck by a German homing torpedo of the G7es type,…
AI EnhancedD-Day: Bill Wilson
Every June we experience the anniversary of one of the most historic days in modern memory, D-day, and it’s important…