North African Campaign
On February 2, 1943, a group of Canadian officers arrived in North Africa. The North African Campaign had been raging back and forth […]
Robert Gray, V.C.
August 9, 1945: In the waning days of the Second World War, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserves […]
William 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 the first Black […]
The Falaise Pocket
Two months after the landings in Normandy, the Allied armies remained within a fairly narrow strip of land west of Caen, France. The […]
Newfoundland Patriotic Association
August 12, 1914: The Newfoundland Patriotic Association (NPA) is formed. Eventually becoming the colony’s Department of Militia, the NPA was responsible for coordinating […]
SGT. Andrew Doiron
March 10, 2015: Sgt Andrew Joseph Doiron is repatriated, arriving in Trenton on board a C-17 transport. As always, it is absolutely inspiring […]
Christmas in Ortona
For the Canadian troops fighting their way through the Italian Front in December 1943, Christmas would prove to be a challenging time. Leading […]
George Price
Canadian George Lawrence Price has the unfortunate distinction of being the last Commonwealth soldier killed on the Western Front during the First World […]
HMCS Sackville
September 28-29, 2003 – The Flower class corvette HMCS Sackville earns the dubious distinction of becoming the last Second World War vessel to […]