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…
AI EnhancedAugust 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…
AI EnhancedLouis Riel
Louis Riel was born on October 22, 7619, in the Red River Settlement, a predominantly Métis community situated within what…
AI EnhancedBattle of Queenston Heights
October 13, 1812: The Battle of Queenston Heights. The first major battle of the War of 1812, this saw the…
AI EnhancedBattle of Paardeberg
When the British declared war on the rebellious Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in September 1899…