AI EnhancedJeremiah Jones
There are countless stories about soldiers who were significantly under the age requirement for service who fought in the First…
AI EnhancedDouglas Jung
“We were prepared to lay ourselves down for nothing. There was no guarantee that the Canadian government was going to…
AI EnhancedRobert “Bud” Jones
An often-overlooked reality of full-scale total wars, like the First and Second World Wars, is how soldier demographics change over…
AI EnhancedThe Westmount War Effort: A Hospital at the Athletic Grounds
Written by Donald V. Macdougall [1]. Don is a retired lawyer who enjoys researching the social and employment circumstances of his ancestors. …
AI EnhancedThe Battle of Batoche
When Manitoba became a province under the Manitoba Act of 1870, many Métis in the Red River Settlement were unable to maintain…
AI EnhancedTomb of the Unknown Soldier
At the end of the First World War, there were too many dead Canadian soldiers to repatriate all those who…
AI EnhancedSamuel Watts
Prejudice and discrimination sometimes made it difficult for Black Canadians to enlist during the early stages of the First World…
AI EnhancedNaval Museum of Alberta (Virtual Tour)
The Naval Museum of Alberta Society (NMAS) was founded in 1988 as an organization to support the search for, acquisition of,…
AI EnhancedThe War of 1812
The War of 1812 is considered a major event in Canadian military history. While it concluded with a return of…
Canada’s WW2 Battlefields (NW Europe) | Video Series
This series, narrated and presented by battlefield archaeologist Andrew Robertshaw, takes the viewer to various battlefields in northwestern Europe where…
AI EnhancedMission: Afghanistan (Virtual Tour)
Mission: Afghanistan chronicles the involvement of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in Afghanistan from 2001-2014 and provides a broader context…
AI EnhancedJames M. Franklin
Article courtesy of Sheldon Maerz. Private (Pte) James Munroe Franklin was born in Whitaker, Mississippi, in the American south, but…