Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:23:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/ 32 32 Operation Impact https://legionmagazine.com/operation-impact/ https://legionmagazine.com/operation-impact/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:23:43 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95677 20 years ago, Canada joined the international fight against Islamic State militants.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/operation-impact/feed/ 0 Chaplain historian highlights Canadian padres of WW II https://legionmagazine.com/chaplain-historian-highlights-canadian-padres-of-ww-ii/ https://legionmagazine.com/chaplain-historian-highlights-canadian-padres-of-ww-ii/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:52:21 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96298 “What makes a man go to war without a weapon to serve on the front line in some of the harshest situations, sometimes giving up his freedom willingly, and in other times, making the ultimate sacrifice?” wondered author Ian Pegg about chaplains in the Second World War. His curiosity for the answer led him to …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/chaplain-historian-highlights-canadian-padres-of-ww-ii/feed/ 0 Continental army barracks burned by British discovered in Colonial Williamsburg https://legionmagazine.com/continental-army-barracks-burned-by-british-discovered-in-colonial-williamsburg/ https://legionmagazine.com/continental-army-barracks-burned-by-british-discovered-in-colonial-williamsburg/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:32:19 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96294 Archeologists in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., are exploring the remains of a continental army barracks burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. The researchers have unearthed bricks and artifacts, including parts of weapons, ceramics, a belt buckle and a glass button. They also found lead musket balls riddled with teeth marks, apparently left by bored …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/continental-army-barracks-burned-by-british-discovered-in-colonial-williamsburg/feed/ 0 Spirit squad https://legionmagazine.com/spirit-squad/ https://legionmagazine.com/spirit-squad/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:45:25 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95672 Solving the mystery of how a seemingly random bomber crew photo ended up in the archives of a small-town Ontario school library.

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/spirit-squad/feed/ 0 Veterans’ post-WW II experience examined in new Canadian War Museum exhibit https://legionmagazine.com/veterans-post-ww-ii-experience-examined-in-new-canadian-war-museum-exhibit/ https://legionmagazine.com/veterans-post-ww-ii-experience-examined-in-new-canadian-war-museum-exhibit/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:37:37 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96240 It’s no secret that the widely known “greatest generation” is fast disappearing. In August 1995, there were said to be 501,690 living Second World War veterans in Canada. In 2010, that number had decreased to around 163,000. As recently as 2023, combined figures for WW II and the Korean War indicated that little more than …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/veterans-post-ww-ii-experience-examined-in-new-canadian-war-museum-exhibit/feed/ 0 Pictures from my father’s wartime photo album https://legionmagazine.com/pictures-from-my-fathers-wartime-photo-album/ https://legionmagazine.com/pictures-from-my-fathers-wartime-photo-album/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:52:44 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96208 I was raised on stories and pictures of the Second World War. My father, Dr. Edward L. Thorne, was an air force medical officer who served three of his five Royal Canadian Air Force years (1942-45) overseas with fighter, coastal and bomber squadrons. The experience shaped the rest of his life. And all of mine. …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/pictures-from-my-fathers-wartime-photo-album/feed/ 0 Think again https://legionmagazine.com/think-again/ https://legionmagazine.com/think-again/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:26:41 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=95662 Re-examining Canada’s role in D-Day

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/think-again/feed/ 0 Canada to meet defence spending target by March 2026: Carney https://legionmagazine.com/canada-to-meet-defence-spending-target-by-march-2026-carney/ https://legionmagazine.com/canada-to-meet-defence-spending-target-by-march-2026-carney/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:31:39 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96173 Declaring American dominance on the world stage at an end, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada will meet NATO’s two per cent-of-GDP military spending target by March 2026—six years earlier than originally planned. It will be the first time Canada’s defence spending has hit the two per cent mark since 1990. Now NATO says it …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/canada-to-meet-defence-spending-target-by-march-2026-carney/feed/ 0 Toronto’s Little Canada unveils Dutch liberation miniature https://legionmagazine.com/torontos-little-canada-unveils-dutch-liberation-miniature/ https://legionmagazine.com/torontos-little-canada-unveils-dutch-liberation-miniature/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:43:08 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96165   Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer was “only supposed to come to Canada for two years.” It’s now been 26, explains the proud Canadian. Originally from the Netherlands, one of his fondest childhood memories is being enamoured by Madurodam in The Hague, a miniature park and tourist attraction hosting tiny scale models of Dutch landmarks. Such was its …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/torontos-little-canada-unveils-dutch-liberation-miniature/feed/ 0 British-born French resident honours locally buried Canadian airmen https://legionmagazine.com/british-born-french-resident-honours-locally-buried-canadian-airmen/ https://legionmagazine.com/british-born-french-resident-honours-locally-buried-canadian-airmen/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:51:45 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=96109 In Méharicourt Communal Cemetery, about 45 minutes from Courcelette, France, lies WW II Canadian Victoria Cross recipient Andrew Mynarski. Etched into the white—if weathered—gravestone is the symbol of the Commonwealth’s highest military honour, earned on June 13, 1944, when the Royal Canadian Air Force airman attempted to save a trapped member of his crew while …

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