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0 Jean Gosselin, flanked by Sam Newman and Mary Van Ruyven. PHOTO: SHARON ADAMS, LEGION MAGAZINE I have been privileged to know two people touched personally by the disastrous raid on Dieppe. The second, then 86, had just concluded his annual commemoration of the...
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0 Three machines from the Second World War have found new homes this month. A Grumman TBM Avenger Aircraft has been moved to the Shearwater Aviation Museum in Nova Scotia. The aircraft were built as torpedo bombers, but were put to more mundane postwar work spraying...
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0 Mary Greyeyes and First World War veteran Harry Ball. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA PA-129070 It’s an iconic photo: a young native woman being blessed by a chief in full headdress. A set-up. Like the famous Times Square kiss. Though touted at the time...
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0 In May of 1945 a group of German soldiers were manning four bunkers off the coast of Denmark, one of some 8,00o Nazi fortifications along the long coast of this tiny country. Hearing of the Nazi surrender, the soldiers left their post to walk to...
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0 Second World War buffs are awaiting authentication of a discovery of the wreck of a Second World War U-boat in the Churchill River, 100 kilometres inland, in Labrador. German U-boats did patrol Canada’s coasts and waterways during the Second World War. Legion Magazine has been...
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0 Last week a contingent of 225 members of the Canadian Forces pause during a 40-kilometre march to pay their respects to the fallen at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery near Nijmegen, Netherlands. With them were VIPs, including the U.S. ambassador to Canada, MP Randy Hoback, the...
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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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