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2025全年度完整赛果 Pictures from my father’s wartime photo album

Canadian combat engineers serving with NATO forces take a break near the village of Leyvani, Afghanistan, on Monday, July 5, 2004. Canadians had been told the area was a Taliban hotbed, but finding them was proving difficult. [Stephen J. Thorne]
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20 years ago, Canada joined the international fight against Islamic State militants....
Author Ian Pegg’s book, Death and Heroes – Army Chaplains in World War 2 will be published in hardback in summer 2025. [Chiselbury Publishing]
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Chaplain historian highlights Canadian padres of WW II

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Veterans’ post-WW II experience examined in new Canadian War Museum exhibit

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FRONT LINES

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Dig this: The lowly shovel held in high esteem by soldiers
Dig this: The lowly shovel held in high esteem by soldiers
Ask a veteran of virtually any wartime infantry what piece of kit...
Ceremony marks 25th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Ceremony marks 25th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
A quarter century ago, an unidentified Canadian soldier killed at the seminal...
Wartime attacks on health-care workers and facilities on steep rise
Attacks on clinics, hospitals and health-care workers in conflict zones numbered more...
By the numbers: Who contributed, and sacrificed, the most in WW II?
By the numbers: Who contributed, and sacrificed, the most in WW II?
The American president outraged a host of Allied nations recently when he...
Archeologists discover suspected graves of massacred Black Civil War unit
Archeologists discover suspected graves of massacred Black Civil War unit
In January 1865, just over three months before the U.S. Civil War...
Bites on Roman gladiator’s skeleton first hard proof of combat with lion
Bites on Roman gladiator’s skeleton first hard proof of combat with lion
Archeologists say puncture wounds and other bite marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton...

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Christmas in Ortona
Christmas in Ortona
Lieutenant Wilf Gildersleeve sat in the bombed-out Ortona church of Santa Maria...
Operation Impact
Operation Impact
20 years ago, Canada joined the international fight against Islamic State militants.
Chaplain historian highlights Canadian padres of WW II
Chaplain historian highlights Canadian padres of WW II
“What makes a man go to war without a weapon to serve...
Spirit squad
Spirit squad
Solving the mystery of how a seemingly random bomber crew photo ended...
Veterans’ post-WW II experience examined in new Canadian War Museum exhibit
Veterans’ post-WW II experience examined in new Canadian War Museum exhibit
It’s no secret that the widely known “greatest generation” is fast disappearing....
Think again
Think again
Re-examining Canada’s role in D-Day
Toronto’s Little Canada unveils Dutch liberation miniature
Toronto’s Little Canada unveils Dutch liberation miniature
  Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer was “only supposed to come to Canada for two...

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MILITARY HISTORY

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Military History
Operation Impact
Operation Impact
20 years ago, Canada joined the international fight against Islamic State militants.
Military History
Spirit squad
Spirit squad
Solving the mystery of how a seemingly random bomber crew photo ended up in the archives of a small-town Ontario school library.
Military History
Think again
Think again
Re-examining Canada’s role in D-Day
Military History
The American Invasion
The American Invasion
How the British and their Canadien subjects turned back the 1775-76 attack on the Province of Quebec.
Military History
Who knit ya?
Who knit ya?
How the road to victory in Europe changed Newfoundland
Artifacts
Ceremonial spoil
Ceremonial spoil
An American 1812 war prize, the return of the Mace of Upper Canada to Ontario symbolized the evolution of cross-border relations
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Heroes And Villains
Heroes and Villians: Crerar vs Schlemm
Heroes and Villians: Crerar vs Schlemm
As Operation Veritable’s launch approached, the two opposing generals braced for a fight
Military History
Regret to inform you
Regret to inform you
How the widow of a WW II soldier killed in action got the news
Military History
Moed en vertrouwe
Moed en vertrouwe
It means courage and confidence in Dutch. Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the German army during the Second World War, embodied the...
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Royal Canadian Legion’s new executive director looks forward to the organization’s centennial
Royal Canadian Legion’s new executive director looks forward to the organization’s centennial
Veterans return to Cyprus to commemorate Canadian peacekeepers
Budget officer claims cabinet inflated military spending figures
Exercise, AI and women’s well-being highlight latest military and veteran health forum
Moving toward 100
Moving toward 100
ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
ATTENTION CANADIAN MILITARY FAMILIES : Did you or a family member receive VAC disability benefits between 2003 and 2023?
Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Growing membership and new initiatives
Growing membership and new initiatives
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Canadians in the Battle of Britain | Narrated by Stephen J. Thorne
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Liberation of the Netherlands | Narrated by Roméo Dallaire
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CANADA CORNER

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Canada Corner
Going overboard
Going overboard
Looking back on the Halifax VE-Day riots
Canada Corner
Beaver fever
Beaver fever
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...
Canada Corner
Home Makers
Home Makers
Facing a housing shortage as Canadians gravitated to urban centres during the Second World War, the federal government got building.
Canada Corner
The Maple Leaf
The Maple Leaf
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...
Home Front
Bombs away
Bombs away
The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America
Canada Corner
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
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...
Canada Corner
The Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference
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...
Canada Corner
JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
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...

HEALTH

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Demographic disparities
Demographic disparities
How researchers in Ontario are contextualizing the homeless experience of female veterans
Ripples of service
Ripples of service
How a Canadian War Museum oral history project is preserving and highlighting...
Finding their voices
Finding their voices
How a travelling exhibit and writing workshop have enabled veterans and military families...
Lured by nature
Lured by nature
How a veterans’ fly-fishing program has embraced the healing power of the great...
Virtual healing
Virtual healing
Recovery for some wounded Afghanistan veterans is simulated
Disheartening data
Disheartening data
Latest survey of military sexual misconduct reveals little change
The dogs of postwar
The dogs of postwar
How mental health service animals help veterans. And a look at the...
It takes a village
It takes a village
The new Legion Veterans Village in Surrey, B.C., is offering unheralded opportunities...

OUR VETERANS

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Another busy year supporting veterans
For 100 years, Dominion and Provincial command service officers (CSOs) have been at the heart of The Royal Canadian Legion’s support...
Royal Canadian Legion’s new executive director looks forward to the organization’s centennial
Royal Canadian Legion’s new executive director looks forward to the organization’s centennial
Dedication to Remembrance
Dedication to Remembrance
Veterans return to Cyprus to commemorate Canadian peacekeepers
Budget officer claims cabinet inflated military spending figures
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ARTIFACTS

Ceremonial spoil
Postcard from the front
Mars attacks!

MILITARY MILESTONES

The 1775 Battle of Quebec
Christmas in Ortona
Remembering John Osborn, V.C.

HUMOUR HUNT

Winged commander
Blaze of glory?
Flag flap

FACE TO FACE

Should Canadian ships sunk in war be considered war graves?
Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Face to face: Did, as Charles Stacey wrote in his official history of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Canada fail to make the most of its opportunities in the Normandy Campaign?

HEROES AND VILLIANS

Heroes and Villians: Crerar vs Schlemm
Heroes and Villians: James Wolf vs Louis-Joseph De Montcalm
Heroes and Villians: Fox vs Rommel

REMEMBRANCE

Dedication to Remembrance
Lifetime of service
Overlooked

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