AI EnhancedElection of 1917: Military Service Act
When Canadians went to the polls on December 17, 1917, they realized that their votes could potentially affect the outcome…
AI EnhancedThe Halifax Explosion
On the morning of December 6, 1917, the SS Imo, a Belgian relief ship, collided with the SS Mont Blanc…
AI EnhancedMasumi Mitsui, M.M.
Many people have risked their lives to protect our country over the years, but not all of them have been…
AI EnhancedShiwak the Sniper
Just after dusk on the evening of November 20, 1917 a company of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was moving into…
AI EnhancedHMHS 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…
AI EnhancedNo. 2 Construction Battalion
Courtesy of Mathias Joost, CD At the start of the First World War tens of thousands of men rushed…
AI EnhancedThe Siberian Expeditionary Force
August 12, 1918: The Canadian government authorized the creation of the Siberian Expeditionary Force to intervene in the Russian Civil…
AI EnhancedHenry Louis Norwest
The National Aboriginal Veterans Monument stands in our nation's capital, Ottawa, as a reminder of all the brave Métis and…
AI EnhancedAssassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Between 1900 and 1915, forty political assassinations took place around the world. The most significant was the one referred to…
AI EnhancedThe 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…
AI EnhancedPasschendaele
By the time the Canadian Corps arrived in Flanders, Belgium, in October 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres had been…
AI EnhancedThe Drocourt-Quéant Line
The Drocourt-Quéant Line, a section of the infamous Hindenburg Line, was one of the most strongly defended German defence systems…