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0 A heart-warming piece by a Grade 5/6 teacher in Montreal has appeared on the website of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. Literacy teacher Alexandra Papazoglou at Evergreen Elementary undertook a class project on Remembrance to improve skills in spelling, grammar and... -
0 A commemoration and unveiling of a new memorial to those who served during the Second World War in the RCAF’s 431 (Iroquois) Squadron is being held Oct. 28 near Selby, North Yorkshire. In 1942 a bomber base was built near the village of Burn, from...
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0 For the second year in a row, dozens of bed and breakfast establishments across the country are offering free accommodations on Remembrance Day to veterans and serving members of the military. B&Bs for Vets, patterned after the program started in the U.S. in 2008,...
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0 Over the years I’ve marvelled at the differences in the way each of us, each person, each community, each nation, commemorates the fallen, and how those differences personalize the solemn rites for participants. In France, names are read aloud and after each name the crowd...
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0 For those following the stories in Legion Magazine about U-Boats in the St. Lawrence–Hidden Victory In The St. Lawrence, The Luck of the U-Boats, Torpedoed in the St. Lawrence, Predators in the St. Lawrence– The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies has posted... -
0 This week marks the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Belgium. After liberating much of the northern French coast in the summer of 1944, the First Canadian Army, along with British and Polish troops, swept into Belgium. Large parts of western Belgium were liberated quickly,...
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Canada and the Holocaust
Many young Canadians may be unaware Canada has any connection to the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination program that claimed six million Jewish people and millions of others during the Second World War. That is about to change as Canada assumes chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance . In his speech at the hand-over...
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