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Going overboard

Alex Bowers — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:55:04 +0000

Looking back on the Halifax VE-Day riots

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Beaver fever

Don Gillmor — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:10:18 +0000

The beaver became Canada’s national symbol on March 24, 1975, when the National Symbol of Canada Act received royal assent. Castor canadensis was already a de facto emblem, found on ancient totem poles, featured on the nation’s first postage stamp, issued in 1851, and appearing on various coats of arms (Manitoba’s, Alberta’s and Toronto’s, among …

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Home Makers

Legion Magazine — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:32:01 +0000

Facing a housing shortage as Canadians gravitated to urban centres during the Second World War, the federal government got building.

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The Maple Leaf

Don Gillmor — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:40:01 +0000

Canada’s Maple Leaf flag, adopted in 1964 after decades of heated debate, replaced colonial symbols to unify the nation. Once controversial, it now proudly represents Canada’s identity on the global stage.

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Bombs away

Alex Bowers — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:40:18 +0000

The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America

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Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory

Legion Magazine — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:23:12 +0000

It’s 1944 and, as Allied armies fight their way through France, supply lines are stretched thin. The tools of war must travel from Normandy to a front that’s moving further from the D-Day beaches by the moment. The Belgian port at Antwerp offers the solution the Allies need—extensive docks and facilities ideally situated to support …

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The Charlottetown Conference

Don Gillmor — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:05:30 +0000

The 1864 Charlottetown Conference was initially designed to discuss a union of the three Maritime provinces. But delegates from the Province of Canada heard about the conference and decided to crash the party. The meeting brought together strange political bedfellows and fiercely opposing viewpoints in an effort to create a country. George Brown, a morally upright Liberal …

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JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET

Alex Bowers — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:07:26 +0000

When Canada welcomed Norwegian mariners exiled from their homeland by the Nazis, it brought new meaning to the country’s de facto national anthem—“Yes, we love this country”

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War measures

Don Gillmor — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:57:14 +0000

The War Measures Act went into law on Aug. 4, 1914, allowing the cabinet to bypass the House of Commons and the Senate and to rule by decree in the event of “war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended.” It is the last word in this definition that caused the most problems. If cabinet perceived anyone …

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Licence to plunder

Stephen J. Thorne — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:21:37 +0000

Privateers played an important role in wars throughout the 18th century

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