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...
We are going to shift things now, from Canadian troops to Newfoundland troops with our battles of the First World War for Canada. While it is true that Newfoundland did not join Canada until 1949, I am including the battles that Newfoundland took...
It was along a ridge that Canadian troops would come to Mount Sorrel, a small hill that rose 98 feet into the air, but provided a clear vantage point over the surrounding area. The force that occupied this spot would have excellent observation...
My original plan was to have an episode about the war effort and propaganda, but I realized that coming off the war effort at home, there would be a lot of similarities, so I decided to push that episode down a little, and instead focus on something...
After looking at the life of Canadians in the trenches, its time to get back to the battles. So far, Canada had seen some minor battles, at least in terms of what was to come, and by May of 1915, the Canadian Expeditionary Force was about to see its...
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...
For centuries, long before the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous battled each other throughout North America. While we know of only a small fraction of these battles, historians know the last one quite well. It would occur on Oct. 25, 1870 when...
When Europeans arrived in Atlantic Canada five centuries ago, they came across a people who had lived on the land for thousands of years. Occupying areas from Newfoundland down to future Boston, archeological evidence and oral histories would date...
The Korean War is sometimes called The Forgotten War because it does not always receive the remembrance of the First and Second World Wars. Canada had a huge impact on the Korean War and one of the biggest and most important battles was the Battle...