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Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day: My grandfather's life doesn't fit so easily in the national construct of “Death so Noble”
Private William Gibson makes his only official appearance in the 2nd Battalion’s War Diary on May 3, 1917, when his arm is shattered by shrapnel during an attack at Fresnoy Read more
Changing how we remember war
Toronto’s monuments to war celebrate the atrocious and curious in Canada’s military history Read more
Why today’s veterans avoid the Royal Canadian Legion
Most members of today’s Legion have never spent a day in military uniform Read more
Peter Watson
Remembrance Day dig for a forgotten soldier
The original coffin of pilot Dennis Noble, aged 20, was found to contain nothing but bricks to give the impression of weight Read more
City of Toronto Archives
A World of Duty, Discovery and Death
In pre-World War One Canada, there was no ambiguous morality, no human frailty or tragic flaws in this world, only single-minded devotion to God and country Read more
