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A memorial like no other 'Vimy is not a victory monumentThere are no signs of victory there at allIt expresses our obligation to the deadand the grief of the living.

Time: 9:59 AM on Tuesday
Topic: History
Hits: 389
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=af03970b-0ac0-4

The case for Vimy The battle of Vimy Ridge is considered a defining moment in Canadian historyBut does it resonate with new Canadians?

Time: 9:04 AM on Saturday
Topic: History
Hits: 212
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/vimy/story.html?id=e7e2fb

Houdini to be released from his coffin Pathologist doubts his death was result of punch in Montrealbody to be exhumed for examination for possible poisoning

Time: 8:54 AM on Friday
Topic: History
Hits: 188
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b9c71c13-1b8d

Researchers seek Spanish Flu survivors The ranks of Canada's survivors of the Spanish Flu the deadliest known infectious disease outbreak in history are dwindlingAnd researchers are hoping to find the remaining few to prevent their stories from being lost under the sands of time.

Time: 12:39 PM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 183
Poster: Hyack

http://www.thestar.com/Health/article/195008

Thousands of students to mark Vimy victory About 3,600 high-school students from all over the country will go to France next month to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge,

Time: 8:24 AM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 181
Poster: Hyack

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/03/22/students-vimy.html

Red Ensign Campaigners Want Old Flag To Fly At Vimy Ceremony It's the flag the Canadians carried into battle when they captured Vimy Ridge in 1917And it's the flag that should be flying when thousands assemble at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial next month.

Time: 4:43 AM on Monday
Topic: History
Hits: 318
Poster: Canadaka

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=babdccf6-1c81-4

Before Stanley Park: First nations sites lie scattered throughout the area Millennia-old native village sites in Stanley Park were still in use by first nations people in the 1880s when surveyors and road builders knocked the homes down to create the Park Drive perimeter road.

Time: 9:57 AM on Saturday
Topic: History
Hits: 198
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=42

War museum sticks to its guns The Canadian War Museumrefusing to bow any further to demands from several veteransorganizationshas announced it will not change a controversial display that raises questions about the morality and military value of the Allied bombing campaign in G

Time: 5:42 PM on Saturday
Topic: History
Hits: 251
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3ba32a6b-e30f-4

Skull washes ashore on B.C. island; could be connected to 1811 battle A portion of a skull peppered with five grapeshot-like holes and embedded with metal has washed ashore on a west coast islandleaving RCMPFirst Nations and historians stumped.

Time: 10:02 AM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 257
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=272e9ece-b001-4

Visitors from 1,000 years ago Archeologist to speak about Viking site that has occupied her since 1960s

Time: 8:43 AM on Tuesday
Topic: History
Hits: 209
Poster: Hyack

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/561433.html

Sitting Bull buried here? NORTH Dakota had them in 1890South Dakotait is widely believedgot them in 1953And nowcontroversiallyMontana wants them But are Sitting Bull's bones actually in Canada

Time: 11:23 AM on Saturday
Topic: History
Hits: 211
Poster: Hyack

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/story/3892408p-4501092c.html

Riel's wedding suit bound for museum It is a nattydark blue serge suitwith a stripe down the trousersmade in Montreal sometime in the 1880s

Time: 11:44 AM on Monday
Topic: History
Hits: 199
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=690732e7-b6cb-4

Aurore, the mystery of the martyred child What do you think happened to the martyred child?

Time: 7:25 AM on Friday
Topic: History
Hits: 239
Poster: Subsandwich

http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/gagnon/accueil/indexen.html

9,000-year-old remains found in Caledonia Archeologists have dug up the remains of an aboriginal village and 9,000-year-old stone tools

Time: 11:54 AM on Wednesday
Topic: History
Hits: 219
Poster: Hyack

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/172020

Scientists thrilled with glimpse of decades-old earthquake site Time: 10:17 AM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 317
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=96ec0dd

Bracelet lost during WWII to be returned Time: 9:30 AM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 238
Poster: Hyack

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070103/war_bracelet_0

Canadian behind first public radio broadcast 100 years ago - on Christmas Eve Time: 1:57 PM on Friday
Topic: History
Hits: 305
Poster: RUEZ

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20061222/ca_pr_on_na/birth_of_radio

Shipwreck located in Lake Ontario Time: 4:47 AM on Tuesday
Topic: History
Hits: 320
Poster: Hyack

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout

Vintage Wings collection adds 3 historic planes Time: 4:45 AM on Tuesday
Topic: History
Hits: 159
Poster: Hyack

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=bd6ee588-b41b-4

B.C., Ottawa, aboriginals to sign two new treaties in three days Time: 7:27 AM on Thursday
Topic: History
Hits: 199
Poster: Scape

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d8dfbcbe-624c