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Canada's last airworthy Lancaster to leave for U.K. tour
Canada's last airworthy Lancaster bomber is set to take off Monday for a U.K. tour with the only other operational aircraft of its kind. Crow shark fossil, believed to be world's largest, found in Manitoba
The fossilized remains of a crow shark that is believed to be 80 to 90 million years old has experts talking at a Manitoba fossil museum, 39 years after it was unearthed at a mine site. Legendary Ojibwa sniper unsung hero of WW I
He was the most decorated First Nations soldier in the history of the Canadian military, but very few people have ever heard of Francis Pegahmagabow.
Don Cherry lends support as British Home Children war veterans honouredHistory | 206755 hits | 12:52 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
TORONTO -- Television personality Don Cherry lent his support Monday to a ceremony honouring the First World War service of British Home Children, a group that formed a little-known and often sordid chapter of Canadian history. The 100-year conflict that is the First World War
It was a hundred years ago Friday when Europe's crumbling empires let loose "the guns of August" and plunged the globe into the First World War. As Brian Stewart writes, that reckless dance into the abyss set the stage for our times.Theodore Van Kirk, last Enola Gay crew member, dead at 93
The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, hastening the end of the Second World War and moving the world into the atomic age, has died.
The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, hastening the end of the Second World War and moving the world into the atomic age, has died. Korean War monument unveiled in Burlington, Ont., to honour eight navy ships
A monument dedicated to eight Royal Canadian Navy ships that served in the Korean War was unveiled in Burlington, Ont., Monday, to mark the 61st anniversary of the armistice to end the war.
Race is on to find and identify 48 Canadian soldiers | World War I
NEUVILLE-ST-VAAST, France -- A race is on to try to locate and identify the remains of 48 Canadians soldiers whose bodies were inadvertently buried and subsequently forgotten 97 years ago during the battle for Vimy Ridge.The most moving love story of the Great war
This is a true story of wartime determination and devotion - of a young woman's passionate love that defied social convention in an era when women didn't even have the vote.
This is a true story of wartime determination and devotion - of a young woman's passionate love that defied social convention in an era when women didn't even have the vote.Tommy talk: From blot to doolally, the A-to-Z of trench slang
Men huddling in trenches quickly spiced their conversation with foreign words, dialect, rhyming slang, puns and new terms for the strange conditions they found themselves in.
Men huddling in trenches quickly spiced their conversation with foreign words, dialect, rhyming slang, puns and new terms for the strange conditions they found themselves in. A thick WWI uniform, a trip back in time
Parks Canada is offering a unique opportunity to history buffs this summer: a chance to sample what life was like in the Newfoundland Regiment in 1917. The CBC's Adam Walsh took advantage of the offer. Cold War-era telephone lines snag N.W.T. moose, caribou
A federal government cleanup of the Canol pipeline, designed to move oil from Norman Wells, N.W.T. to Alaska, has yet to tackle hundreds of kilometres of abandoned telephone wire, and that�s causing problems for hikers and animals. Hedgehog and tapir fossils found in B.C.
Paleontologists have identified fossils of a thumb-sized hedgehog and a spaniel-sized tapir that scurried through the B.C. rainforest 50 million years ago.ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer?
History | 206773 hits | 1:14 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer?Eduard Shevardnadze, ex-Georgian president and key Cold War player, dead at 86
Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.
Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.Nazi 'perfect Aryan' poster child was Jewish
Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish
History | 206893 hits | 10:54 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish After 150 years on U.S. soil, artifact from Charlottetown is sailing home
An artifact from the ship that served as a major backdrop in the negotiations that led to the birth of Canada is about to return home.
A bronze bell from the S.S. Queen Victoria is one of the few artifacts salvaged from the steamship which sank off theSarajevo marks war centennial with message of unity to divided country
Sarajevo marked the centennial on Saturday of a prince's murder that lit the fuse for World War One, offering a message of unity to a divided country and a continent buffeted by deep social and economic strife.
Sarajevo marked the centennial on Saturday of a prince's murder that lit the fuse for World War One, offering a message of unity to a divided country and a continent buffeted by deep social and economic strife. History buffs raise funds to restore Calgary vintage planes
History and plane buffs in Calgary have successfully raised enough money to restore two World War Two-era planes owned by the City. Bluenose II: 'I wish I could undo what's been done'
The premier�s deputy minister, who is now in charge of the Bluenose II rebuild, says there will be a reckoning once the project is over. Remote photo exhibit celebrates 1960s High Arctic research
On July 1 a new photo exhibit will open in a 40-year-old defence building in Canada�s most inaccessible national park. Just a handful of visitors will get to see it first-hand. Bluenose II starts sea trials with little public notice
The rebuilt Bluenose II started sea trials Tuesday morning, with little public notice. John Joseph Carey's remains ID'd 72 years after WW II death
The remains of a Second World War airman found in 2008 in a lake south of Bonn, Germany, has been identified as Canadian Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey of Ottawa. Canadians honoured for WW II rescue of Italian boy
In June of 1944, as the First Canadian Division advanced up the Italian peninsula, fighting pitched battles against a staunch German resistance, soldiers from the Royal Canadian Service Corps � a transport unit - discovered a small boy, hungry and filthy, Lost First World War bracelet returned to Arthur Erickson's family
The silver ID bracelet of a Canadian soldier, lost on the battlefields of the First World War, has been returned to the Erickson family after it was found in a box of junk in Vancouver.History | 207197 hits | 1:39 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Estonian researchers believe they may have finally discovered the whereabouts of �Dracula�s� grave, which is in Italy and not the Romanian Transylvanian Alps as first thought. Montreal man reunites with Polish rescuer who saved him from Nazis
Montreal resident Sidney Zoltak has returned to Poland to reunite with the man who helped save him from the Nazis. Surf, sand and shrapnel' Relics still scattered across D-Day beaches
Acclaimed photographer Donald Weber has produced a series of stunning microscopic photographs of sand that indeed confirm traces of D-Day shrapnel remain on the Normandy beaches. D-Day in Canada: 'Anxious times' on the home front
Canadians huddled around radios or gathered at spontaneous prayer meetings as word spread that Allied forces had stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.Pensioner who hid medals and absconded from care home found at D-Day celebrations in France
The 89-year old was reported missing from his Hove care home but actually sneaked onboard a coach for a final reunion with his D-Day comrades across the Channel
History | 207345 hits | 10:17 AM on Friday | posted by commanderkai
The 89-year old was reported missing from his Hove care home but actually sneaked onboard a coach for a final reunion with his D-Day comrades across the Channel The Way It Was: How readers, listeners and later viewers came to learn about D-Day
PARIS -- From the first sketchy German radio broadcast to the distribution of images filmed in colour, it has taken decades for the full story of the D-Day invasion to come out. Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's last surviving child, dead at 91
Mary Soames, the last surviving child of British World War II leader Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91.King Richard III gets burial near parking lot where his skeleton was found
In the battle royal over 15th-century bones, Britain's High Court gives the victory to Leicester, the city in central England where his skeleton was found under a parking lot in 2012.
In the battle royal over 15th-century bones, Britain's High Court gives the victory to Leicester, the city in central England where his skeleton was found under a parking lot in 2012. Komagata Maru 100th anniversary: descendants surprised by stories
Descendants of two B.C. residents, who were on opposite sides of the Komagata Maru story are sharing their reflections today on the 100th anniversary of what both agree was a dark chapter in Canadian history. 'Canada's Titanic' finally getting its due
The sinking of the Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914, stands as one of the country's worst maritime disasters, though a surprising number of Canadians have never heard of it.Back to Canada News
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