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. ...
“It is a unique opportunity because many veterans of World War II are advanced in age or have passed away,” Cheng said. The temporary exhibition site is catered to the experiences of Chinese Canadian veterans of the Second World War, many of whom were local to Victoria by b...
In the immediate post-World War II period, states that had larger social safety nets decided they needed extra revenue and they saw lotteries as a way to raise it without having to increase taxes on their middle and working classes. Nevertheless, it’s important to understand that the amount...
Lance Corporal John Shiwak and Private Angus Edwardson both fought during the First World War. The former was Inuk and the latter was First Nations. The two cases exemplify the many challenges that face researchers when they are looking to find information about members of the CEF or RNR who...
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...
the images of bedraggled and hollow looking refugees entering the capitol, lead by the strongest bastion of hope their nation had in the final years of the war have done much to drain that anger. Armies are being demobilized and veterans allowed to return to their pre-war forms, or not, ...
The focus of this thesis is to provide a greater understanding of First World War veteran re-establishment in Western Canada. By examining the pension files of a sample group of veterans from the 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion (soldiers from Calgary and Winnipeg) the realities of how Board of...
Veterans Lake Canva Veterans Lake One of the jewels in the Arbuckle wilderness area of Oklahoma, the story goes like this... While swimming, a young boy drowned. In a panic, the mother also lost her life trying to save her son. Both are regularly seen around the lake as apparitions. Th...
Bombers:Bombers - 1978 Two of Montreal's better-known producers in the seventies, George Lagios and Pat Deserio, were behind the disco-funk studio band Bombers. Both were veterans of that city's thriving pop/disco scene,... The Red Squares:Ottawa Today / Transmitter - 7" - 1978 Ottawa...
requested the address of the family that was tending his son’s grave at Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in France, to thank them. The Director of War Service Records, Department of Veterans Affairs, provided this response, which helped to connect the grieving family in Canada with French...