Jack Ford was a Canadian photographer during the Second World War for RCAF Squadron 414. While advancing across Western Europe, he took thousands of photographs, including Winston Churchill (with his proverbial cigar), King George VI, Nazi planes, and prisoners of war. He also captured glimmers of humanity: in one photo, a Canadian soldier dressed as [...]
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.
For Remembrance Day, we present a sample of songs from the First World War, each presenting a different aspect of 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.
Perhaps no battle agitates the memory as much as the one in Flanders Fields in 1917, at a place called Passchendaele.
