Over the course of this podcast series, I will not look in depth at the various regiments and battalions that took part in the war often. Of course, with this second episode of the show, I feel I cannot continue without looking at the first group of...
Covering the First World War is no easy task. There are thousands of lives to look at, hundreds of important events and more. For the first episode of this podcast, I obviously wanted to start at the beginning. So, I am going to look at the first...
Help fund my cross-country history tour here: Looking at the First World War, the men in the trenches, the nurses behind the lines and the aviators in the air tend to get most of the notice. As I have covered before, especially when it came to the...
The First World War was winding down but that does not mean that the battles were ending. The Hundred Days Offensive was still going strong into November 1918 and thousands were being killed on the battlefield on nearly a daily basis. Amid all of...
During the 100 Days Offensive, Canada was helping to lead the charge to push the Germans back as the war was drawing to a close. The Germans had withdrawn to their Hindenburg Line and the Canadian front would include the sector that had Bourlon Wood...
During the First World War, 619,636 Canadians enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and 424,000 shipped overseas. While the roles of soldiers at the Somme and Vimy Ridge are celebrated in Canadian history, there are many unsung heroes who...
During the 100 Days Offensive that would eventually close out the First World War, one of the most significant battles for Canada was the Battle of Scarpe. It would begin on Aug. 26 and run for the next five days and would prove to be an...
On Jan. 2, the Humber Railway Disaster would occur, with 32 men and boys being killed in a head-on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train near Toronto. A young man by the name of Goodwood would see the...
With Canadians entering into the Battle of the Somme in September at the Battle of Courcelette, they would be thrown back into the fray after several German victories at various locations along the front. This led to the need for Thiepval to be...
