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Archivist stunned after unearthing family's WWI history
Library and Archives digital imaging specialist Timothy Shawn Hack uncovered documents from his two great-grandfathers who fought on opposite sides during the First World War. WWI vet returns to Belgium 40 years later to dig up buried rum
A First World War veteran claimed to have found long-lost jugs of rum in Belgium more than four decades after he buried them. The sights of Passchendaele, 100 years later
An official Government of Canada delegation is in Ypres, Belgium, from Nov. 7 to 12 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. The delegation includes veterans, descendants of veterans and youth wanting to learn more about a defining mo 'They are important': celebrating Canada's official WW I photographers
Between 1916 and 1918, three different Canadian photographers produced nearly 8,000 images, about 4,500 of them taken on the Western Front. When was Battle of Passchendaele' Most Canadians don't know: poll
Passchendaele was one of the deadliest battles in Canadian history, but a new poll released exactly 100 years later finds that only 35 per cent of Canadians can correctly identify which war it was part of. West Van woman solves mystery of father's WW II photo
Harry Macdonald didn't like talking about his experiences in the Second World War, but, after he died, the mystery of a wartime photo led to to an amazing discovery by his daughter. Halifax Explosion stamp captures moment after ships collided
Canada Post has unveiled a new stamp designed by a Halifax firm that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion. Canadian's Passchendaele Victoria Cross to go on sale a century after it was awarded
A Victoria Cross, awarded to 24-year-old Cpl. Colin Barron for his actions at Passchendaele exactly 100 years ago Monday, is set to go up for auction on Dec. 5. Vancouver-based regiment marks 100-year anniversary of WWI battle
Canadian soldiers played an instrumental role in the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium one hundred years ago and, this weekend, officers from the Seaforth Highlanders are commemorating the battle that helped secure an Allied victory during World War I. Passchendaele at 100: New exhibit looks at WW1 victory that haunts us still
New exhibit at the Atwater Library in Montreal traces Passchendaele's fall from grace among Canada's First World War battle honours.History | 1184 hits | 10:09 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.JFK files reveal sex parties, a stripper named Kitty, surveillance and assassination plots
President Donald Trump ordered the release of more than 2,800 records related to the John F. Kennedy assassination on Thursday, but bowed to pressure from the CIA, FBI and other agencies to delay disclosing some of the most sensitive documents for another
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President Donald Trump ordered the release of more than 2,800 records related to the John F. Kennedy assassination on Thursday, but bowed to pressure from the CIA, FBI and other agencies to delay disclosing some of the most sensitive documents for another How the Royal Ontario Museum believes a Viking sword ended up in northern Ontario
While it's extremely unlikely that Vikings ever traversed through or settled in northern Ontario, a new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum will feature one of their artifacts with ties to northern Ontario. Fossils from cat with 'steak knife' fangs, found in Yukon, give researchers something to chew on
The scimitar cat once roamed across North America and Europe, but scientists still know relatively little about the fearsome predator. 'It's kind of an enigma.' Stamps, dishes, books among objects retrieved from Montreal parliament dig site
Archeologists digging up the site of a pre-Confederation parliament in Montreal this summer came across plenty of items they expected to find hidden deep in the earth -- and a few they didn't. Kaslo commemorates 1,100 Japanese-Canadians interned during WW II
During the Second World War, the Canadian government relocated 22,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent, labelling them "enemy aliens" even though the majority were Canadian citizens. Government hastily removes Holocaust plaque that doesn't mention Jewish people
A Conservative MP raised the issue in question period, asking if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be correcting this 'profoundly obvious omission' Exploring the nostalgia for B.C.'s Martin Mars water bomber
The signature plane best known for scooping large amounts of water and dousing some of B.C.'s worst wildfires is no longer used in the province, much to the chagrin of many with nostalgic memories of the aircraft. Liberals plan apology for 1939 decision to turn away ship of Jewish refugees
The federal Liberals are working on an apology for the Canadian government's 1939 decision to turn away a boat of German Jews seeking asylum in Canada, The Canadian Press has learned. Saskatchewan soldier's Victoria Cross sold for $550K at auction
A rare military medal awarded to a Saskatchewan soldier was auctioned in England on Wednesday, and sold for more than half a million dollars.'Quintessential British treasure:' What next for London's disappearing phone booths'
Like a throwback to a bygone era, bright red phone booths still line the streets of London’s central tourist area. These days, they serve much less as a means of communication than as a backdrop for visitors’ photos.
Like a throwback to a bygone era, bright red phone booths still line the streets of London’s central tourist area. These days, they serve much less as a means of communication than as a backdrop for visitors’ photos. Revered and reviled: The Gastown steam clock turns 40
Will Woods is a conflicted man. On the one hand, the tour operator feels compelled to include Gastown's iconic steam clock as part of the daily walking tours he offers. But then comes the part when he has to clarify that the clock was actually built in 19 Expedition team says prototype of Avro Arrow found at bottom of Lake Ontario
Search crews say they have found a test model of the Avro Arrow, an advanced Canadian fighter jet that was controversially scrapped in 1959, on the floor of Lake Ontario.Memorial to Israelis killed at 1972 Olympics opens in Munich
The presidents of Germany and Israel are inaugurating a memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer killed 45 years ago during an attack by a Palestinian militant group at the Munich Olympics.
The presidents of Germany and Israel are inaugurating a memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer killed 45 years ago during an attack by a Palestinian militant group at the Munich Olympics. The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in EnglandHistory | 6143 hits | 12:22 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
How six flying saucers generated a real emergency response and panic across the country in 1967. Researchers discover 2 century-old shipwrecks in Lake Huron
Two shipwrecks more than a century old have been found in the deep waters of Lake Huron, Maritime archaeologists announced Friday. Ship that sank in Cambridge Bay 87 years ago finally on journey home to Norway
It’s a milestone seven years in the making: 87 years since the Maud sank near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the vessel is finally on its journey home. Petition to change B.C. village of Moricetown to traditional name
More than 120 years after a Roman Catholic missionary named Moricetown after himself, a petition is circulating to change the name of the northern B.C. village to its traditional title: Wiset. History | 1429 hits | 12:08 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
It turns out that, when judged through the prism of our enlightened era, almost everybody from Canada’s past — from famed reformers to Indigenous icons to notable women — comes off as an extremist maniac. Canadians killed in historic First World War battle buried with honours in France
The remains of two soldiers who died in a historic battle for Canada during the First World War have been buried in France. Both sets of remains were discovered during munitions clearing in advance of a construction project. Historic Klondike gold nuggets return to Yukon
The nuggets were once owned by 'Skookum Jim' Mason, one of the original discoverers of gold in the Klondike in 1896. Evan Nelson even has the papers to prove it. 'A remarkable battle that was largely forgotten': Hill 70 memorial set to open in France
A memorial park commemorating Canadian soldiers who died in a "remarkable" but not well known First World War battle opens next week in France. While the Canadian Corps' accomplishment at Vimy is a storied and celebrated part of Canada's history, the vict Only Canadian Muslim soldier to die in WW1 honoured at ceremony in London, Ont.
The Royal Canadian Regiment celebrates a century old battle where one of Canada's few known Muslim soldiers was killed in the First World War. 
The Fraser River gold rush of 1858 brought disease and hardship to First Nations, but it also included the devastating loss of many young Stó:lō boys who were kidnapped and taken to the United States.Paul Allen announces discovery of sunken WWII ship - USS Indianapolis
Billionaire tech mogul Paul G. Allen announced Friday that a research vessel belonging to his organization has located wreckage from the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea.
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Billionaire tech mogul Paul G. Allen announced Friday that a research vessel belonging to his organization has located wreckage from the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea. 'It was a bad day': Canadian POWs recall disastrous Dieppe raid 75 years later
To mark the 75th year since the disastrous raid on Dieppe, Paul Delorme, 97, and three other former soldiers have returned to the scene of their capture. Dieppe: 584 Fusiliers Mont-Royal went in, 125 got out
For the 584 mainly French-Canadian soldiers of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Dieppe was something of a homecoming given the French port's historical ties to Quebec. The events of Aug. 19, 1942, however, would forever alter the town's significance to Canadian Marking 50 years since the Shell Lake murders, Canada's worst random mass killing
Fifty years ago, a mentally ill young man slipped into a Saskatchewan farmhouse and shot nine members of the same family in what's now known as Canada's worst random mass murder. Victor Hoffman had been released from a psychiatric hospital just weeks earl B.C. wildfire season worst since 1958
The season is far from over: the B.C. Wildfire Service says August is usually a busy month for fires. Over 4,910 square kilometres of land has burned since spring 'They were just so kind': German villagers go 'all out' for memorial to RCAF bomber crew
The tiny hamlet of Spreckens, Germany, is now home to a new monument dedicated to the crew of a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber that crashed in a local farmer’s field 73 years ago. 100 years ago today, a ship carrying 546 wounded WW I soldiers ran aground off Halifax
The grounding of the hospital ship Letitia on the rocks of Portuguese Cove on Aug. 1, 1917, miraculously did not result in a massive loss of life, considering her passengers — 546 wounded World War I soldiers. Royals mark Passchendaele on centenary of costly WW I battle
The Canadian and Belgian royal families, Germany's foreign minister and descendants of some of those who died in one of the First World War's bloodiest battles gathered in western Belgium to mark the centenary of Passchendaele.Canaanites survived Biblical 'slaughter', ancient DNA shows
The ancient Canaanites, who were commanded to be exterminated in the Bible, did not die out, but lived on to become modern-day Lebanese, according to the first study to analyse their DNA.
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The ancient Canaanites, who were commanded to be exterminated in the Bible, did not die out, but lived on to become modern-day Lebanese, according to the first study to analyse their DNA. Last of the fur traders: Edmonton filmmaker inspires father to retrace his Arctic past
Reels of stunning film of the untamed Arctic, rediscovered after decades in a dusty attic, have inspired a former fur trader to retrace his steps through Canada’s North, with his son at this side.Rome wasn't built in a day, but its concrete has lasted centuries
The way the ancient Romans made concrete could be the answer to stronger, longer-lasting structures in the modern world.
The way the ancient Romans made concrete could be the answer to stronger, longer-lasting structures in the modern world. 'Way past time': Black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway honoured, 75 years later
Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during the Second World War, a contribution largely ignored for decades but drawing attention as the 75th anniversary approaches. Trading Post 150 celebrates country's Indigenous history ahead of Canada Day
Michael Broadfoot says while most Canadians will be celebrating confederation, some will be protesting 150 years of colonization. He didn't want to do either.Yuri Drozdov: The man who turned Soviet spies into Americans
Yuri Drozdov was in charge of the "illegals", who gave up their identities to go undercover in the West.
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Yuri Drozdov was in charge of the "illegals", who gave up their identities to go undercover in the West. Alberta farmers complete epic mission to get wartime plane back in the sky
At age 95, former Second World War pilot Hal Burns could be called a living embodiment of Canadian history. On Sunday, at the tiny Fairview Municipal Airport in northwestern Alberta, he met another one.U.S. Coast guard shipwreck discovered on 100th anniversary of its sinking
On the 100th anniversary of the vessel's June 13, 1917, disappearance, the Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it found the shipwreck of the USCGC McCulloch -- not far from where it went down. And officials plan to leave it there.
On the 100th anniversary of the vessel's June 13, 1917, disappearance, the Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it found the shipwreck of the USCGC McCulloch -- not far from where it went down. And officials plan to leave it there.Back to Canada News
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