MTB 463 Sunk!
A month after D-Day, the Germans remained persistent in their attempts to foil Allied reinforcements from across the channel. Although their surface fleet […]
Battle of the Atlantic
March, 1943: The technological cat-and-mouse race between the Royal Canadian Navy and the German Kriegsmarine’s U-boats finally shifted in favour of the former. […]
Battle of Coronel
In an effort to halt German commerce-raiding activities at sea, the Royal Navy had sent Rear Admiral Cradock and a squadron of old […]
Henry Norwest
During the First World War over four thousand Aboriginal people served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. While the Canadian government originally tried to […]
HMCS Bonaventure
January 21, 1957: After a 5-year refit that began in 1952, Canada’s last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure, was commissioned. “Bonnie” was originally the […]
John McCrae
John McCrae served in the artillery during the Boer War. He was a lifelong soldier, Ontario’s best cadet at age 14, and a […]
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 […]