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Hope in Hell

The things that kept the common fighting man from cracking in the trenches were sometimes very small.

After 1918: From Chaos to Mackenzie King!

With the Great War came great social turmoil. Strange, then, how little things actually changed. By Michael Bliss

Feminists on the homefront

Post-war women went to work. They won the vote. Then they lost their way. By Charlotte Gray

A Letter from Ypres

Writing from the trenches of World War I, a young Canadian private shares the terror of the first effective gas attack on the Western Front.

Vimy Revisited

A WWI re-enactor, great-nephew of a soldier, reflects on the battle’s meaning for his generation and the consequences of the war to end all wars.

Fields of remembrance

The Great War is never far away in a region where thousands of Canadians sacrificed and are buried. Photo essay by Phil Koch.

The Polish connection

The rich history of Ontario’s Niagara-on-the-Lake includes a brief spell as a training ground for a Polish army-in-exile.

The July Drive

Newfoundlanders have their own unique way of remembering the Great War. By Dean F. Oliver.

The War on Truth

Canada’s First World War press censor wielded tremendous power in stemming the flow of upsetting news from the front.

The Second Battle of Ypres and the Creation of a YMCA Hero

YMCA Honourary Captain Oscar Irwin was killed when he joined the battalion as it set out to retake St. Julien from the Germans on April 23, 1915.

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