Simoneau: 'If people knew'– lessons from a Remembrance Day mass
I don’t know her name but I often think about her when I line up at Tim Hortons. It was some time ago in a Canadian city. My mother and I attend Remembrance Day mass. The church is small and discreet....
View ArticleNavan's Eric Smith among only Canadians to fly combat missions in both WWII,...
Even among fighter pilots, Eric Smith was a rare breed. Read More
View ArticleOttawa D-Day veteran, 100, a witness to history
Exactly seventy-five years ago, Ottawa's Kenneth Micklethwaite was part of the command team on board a Royal Navy minesweeper that cleared the way for U.S. soldiers to storm Omaha Beach. Read More
View Article“One of those forgotten men”: Former Lord Elgin bell captain, veteran...
Warrant Officer 1st Class James Henry Munroe was one of the first assistant bell captains at the Lord Elgin Hotel when it opened in July 1941. He worked there for two months until he followed another...
View ArticleObituary: Doris Grierson Hope intercepted U-boat messages in wartime
As a high school student during the Second World War, Ottawa's Doris Grierson wondered what she was going to do with her life. Read More
View ArticleEighty years after Second World War began, Gatineau man holds on to its...
John E. Rutherford has no trouble remembering the declaration of the Second World War. Read More
View ArticleWhy do federal employees have such difficulty figuring out what Canadian...
First it was Veterans Affairs Canada staff thinking film footage of German soldiers during the Second World War were actually images of Canadian troops. Read More
View ArticleVeteran Alex Kowbel typed his way into the military
When the Second World War broke out, “Little” Alex Kowbel desperately wanted to do his part, but he had a hard time convincing recruiters in Melville, Sask., that he was up to the job. Read More
View ArticleSypniewski: From Poland, through war time, to Canada
"For our freedom and yours" was the motto of the Polish Armed Forces during the Second World War. The expression originated more than a century earlier when Poland was dismembered by the Prussian,...
View Article'You couldn’t survive alone': 75 years after camp's liberation, Ottawa...
When David Moskovic washes dishes, makes the bed or performs any of the chores that constitute his day, he pays no mind to the four-digit number tattooed on his left forearm — 6024 — a faded reminder...
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