A Desert Between Us and Them
A new documentary on the War of 1812 sets aside straight military history to focus on the civilans of Southwestern Ontario who were caught up in the life-changing challenges of war.
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A new documentary on the War of 1812 sets aside straight military history to focus on the civilans of Southwestern Ontario who were caught up in the life-changing challenges of war.
Between 1942 and 1947, the government brought 47,783 “war brides” to Canada, women who married Canadian servicemen overseas and then immigrated to Canada after the war.
The Great War was the infantryman’s war, and rarely has so much been asked of such men and been done so well. They earned the battle cry “Vimy Ridge!”
Within months of publication, John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” became the most popular poem of the war.
Today is the 58th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. Look back at the three-year conflict that took more than 26,000 Canadians overseas, causing 516 to lose their lives.