The story of the Canadian war brides and their journey to Canada is one of the most fascinating and romantic of World War Two. Why nearly 45,000 British and European women would leave behind everything that was familiar to start a new life in post-war Canada is a story worth telling. ...
1996. "Going back to Civvy Street: A Historical Account of the Impact of the Everest and Jennings Wheelchair for Canadian World War II Veterans With Spinal Cord Injury." Disability & Society 11 (2): 149-170.Tremblay, M. (1996). Going back to Civvy Street: A historical account of the ...
Cameron’s death leaves the Canadian delegation with just 13 veterans, between the ages of 99 and 104. It seems likely that this will be the last major anniversary event to involve the men who witnessed D-Day. June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the bloody 11-week Battle of Normandy ...
Born March 2, 1920, London England. Died May 25, 2013, Toronto, Ontario. Lynn did not like her stepfather and left home taking schooling at a private Pitman’s school. She worked for the British Armed forces as a stenographer during World War ll (1939-1945). She earned extra money ...
For those interested in more traditional posts, please check out Armistice Day, The End of World War II in Canada, and Veterans’ Stories: Morkin and Strachan. Continue reading → Yet Another Five Haunted Places in Canada October 24, 20173 Comments Halloween is around the corner so that ...
The 3,120-foot mountain is an impressive sight, with a 200-foot cliff starting at 2,000 feet above sea level on its north side and six ledges rising above it, each roughly 30 feet apart. On top of the mountain were veterans of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division. The Germans had already...
Chronic pain after military service is not homogenous.Canadian veterans provided data about their pain along 7 axes or "domains."Latent profile analysis identified 5 meaningful profiles described by those data.A classification algorithm has been derived with >80% accuracy.The profiles may hold value ...
This survey is the sole source of demographic and well-being information representative of the entire population of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Veterans who did not serve in World War I, World War II or the Korean War. This study, conducted in collaboration with Statistics Canada, examines the...
Barber said there has also been satisfaction in the relationship veterans have developed with the South Korean people in the years since the war, likening it to the ties between Canadian soldiers and the people of Belgium and the Netherlands since the end of the Second World War. ...
Canada and Soviet Russia both used ice hockey as a form of public diplomacy during the Cold War, most notably during the dtente years. In the 1970s the combination of dtente, the retirement of longtime IOC president Avery Brundage, and Canada's withdrawal from world amateur hockey brought a...