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De Havilland's Beaver Bush Plane: The DHC2-Beaver: A Canadian Aviation Engineering Success

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Snowbirds, Canada's Aerobatic Team: '431 Air Demonstration Squadron' Made Official on April 1, 1978

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

CNR's "Radio Train" Show: Canadian National Railway Broadcast the 1st Educational Soap Opera

By: Wendy Elliott

Dorothea Palmer: Brave Disseminator of Birth Control Information

By: Wendy Elliott

Parents' Information Bureau: Distributor of Illegal Birth Control Information

By: Wendy Elliott

Nova Scotia Artist Maud Lewis: Folk Artist Lived in Poverty But Created Beauty in Oil Paints

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Cairine Wilson,First Woman Senator: Canada’s Senate was a Male Domain Until 1930

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

RCAF Women's Division, WWII: Canadian Women Enlisted in the Air Force in World War Two

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

'Romance of Canada' Radio Plays: First Drama Series on CNR Radio in 1931

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Canadian Women at Wartime Work: Canada's Bren Gun Girl Represented Women's Workforce in WWII

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Canada's New Stampede: Diamonds: Exploration for Diamonds Began in the 1960s

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Canada's North Pole: Doesn't Santa Claus Live at the North Pole?

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Toronto's Great Stork Derby: Charles Millar's Will Included Pranks - One Led to a Baby Race

By: John K. Davis

Dr. Gerald Bull, Missile Scientist: One of Canada's Top Scientists in Aerodynamics

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Hurricane Hazel: The Hurricane Struck Toronto and Area on October 15, 1954

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Passchendaele: 3rd Battle of Ypres: Canadian Battalions in WWI Served with Honour Against German Enemy

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

A Biography of Robertson Davies: The Creator of the Deptford Trilogy

By: Karen Jordan

Canadians in the Battle of Britain: First Air-Only Battle was a WWII turning point with Germans Repelled

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Harry Brown Earned Victoria Cross: Private H. Brown Gave His Life in WWI to Save Gains, Lives of Others

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Canadian Wartime Prison Escapes: Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines

By: Brent Sedo

Jacob Anguish at Fort Erie: Final Chapter in the Life of a Soldier During the Revolutionary War

By: Sarah B. Hood

Jacob Anguish in Prison: A Soldier of Butler's Rangers Loses His Foot in a Hartford Dungeon

By: Sarah B. Hood

Jacob Anguish: The Story of One Man Who Served in Butler’s Rangers

By: Sarah B. Hood

Life in Butler’s Rangers: Food and Equipment in a Revolutionary War Corps

By: Sarah B. Hood

The Loonie: Canada's Dollar Coin: Issued 20 Years Ago, Now a Celebrated Part of Canadiana

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

Canadian 3rd Division on D-Day: Three Rifle Brigades Land on Juno Beach to Attack Atlantic Wall

By: Brent Sedo

Canada at Second Battle of Ypres: First Division Faces First German Chlorine Gas Attack of WW I

By: Brent Sedo

Canadian Nurses in World War One: Nursing Sisters Fought for the Lives of Soldiers

By: Feature Writer Susanna McLeod

The Battle of Vimy Ridge: Four Divisions of Canadian Corps Fight Together for the First Time

By: Brent Sedo

Canada Museum Belgium: Unique Museum Honours WW II Liberators of Belgium

By: Brent Sedo

Canada In World War I: Heroism and Death

By: Florence Cardinal

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