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133-year-old P.E.I. lighthouse being moved from edge of cliffA historic Prince Edward Island lighthouse in danger of slipping into the sea is getting a new address -- and a new lease on life. The 133-year-old Cape Bear Lighthouse at the southeastern tip of P.E.I. is being moved about 100 feet from the edge of an er
WWI Christmas Truce still rememberedDuring the first Christmas Day of the First World War, something magical happened as German and British soldiers struck up a spontaneous truce in Flanders Fields.
Remembrance Day: Dorothy Scott, 93, recounts her WWII RAF daysDorothy Scott's job during the Second World War was to plot airplanes, both friend and foe, for the Royal Air Force from a farmhouse in the south of Cornwall. The Guelph resident shares her stories from the war with The Morning Edition host Craig Norris.
First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II: Lest we forgetOur soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all, but these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades, writes Gordon
Key British WWII spy lived in B.C.In a tale that wouldn't look out of place in a John le Carr� novel, an amateur historian who lived on Salt Spring Island, B.C. has been revealed as a key British agent during the Second World War.
�I don�t think [they] intentionally meant to offend us, but I just don�t think they even think about us. We are just a part of the British Empire to them�
The sexpot and the saint: Women and WWI propagandaScholars commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War are turning their attention to female icons of the era - two of whom were used in propaganda campaigns after their deaths to bolster the war effort, albeit in very different ways.
It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.
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