World War II

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Ernest Glover

Over 26,000 Canadians served during the Korean War. Often called the “Forgotten War,” Korea still represents a vital part of…

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Frank Wong

Chinese people have faced significant discrimination, prejudice, and racism for much of Canada’s history. The Second World War presented the Chinese community…

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Sydney Radley-Walters: Tank Ace

The Western Allies’ premier Tank Ace during the Second World War was a Canadian man named Sydney “Rad” Radley-Walters. He…

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Douglas Aitken

Born September 3, 1920, in Lethbridge, AB, Douglas Aitken moved to Calgary to attended Mount Royal College (now Mount Royal…

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Force 136

Chinese people have faced a long history of intense discrimination, racism, and hatred in Canada. Many early Chinese immigrants were…

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Douglas Jung

“We were prepared to lay ourselves down for nothing. There was no guarantee that the Canadian government was going to…

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Robert “Bud” Jones

An often-overlooked reality of full-scale total wars, like the First and Second World Wars, is how soldier demographics change over…

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The 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. …

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…

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“If” Day

At 0700 hours the siren cried into the early morning sky of February 19, 1942, and before long the city…

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The Battle of the St. Lawrence

In March of 1942, Prime Minister William Mackenzie King declared that “Officers of the Canadian naval service have expressed the…

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Jack Hilton

In the mind of World War Two veteran Jack Hilton, the true heroes were not him, but the ones who…