Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle for the values it was fought for – the defence of justice, rights and freedoms – never ceases
Tag: Remembrance Day
Canadians fighting behind enemy lines – Remembrance Day
Reading Time: 5 minutes Secret agents Raymond LaBrosse and Lucien Dumais rescued hundreds of downed airmen from German-occupied France
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our perspective in marking Remembrance Day is definitely at odds with views of the day, but that doesn’t mean the sacrifices weren’t worthy
Did the Great War really create a distinct Canadian identity?
Reading Time: 4 minutes It took far more than our efforts during the Great War to nudge Canada out of its subordinate role in the British Empire
Was the Armistice of 1918 a triumph or tragedy?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 1918 Armistice was an enormous historical blunder that led to the greatest tragedy experienced in modern times
‘Countless white crosses’ a century later
Reading Time: 3 minutes The concept of loyalty to king and empire may be incomprehensible to us, but It was part and parcel of who those young soldiers were
Remembrance Day: The Homefront in Alberta
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Second World War was hard on the men fighting on the front lines as well as those they left behind