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…
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…