Canada Remembers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canada has been involved in nearly every major world conflict in the past 300 years, beginning with the French-Indian Wars and the American Revolution when George Washington laid seige to Quebec City. It was the Great War, or World War One (1914-1918) that truly bled Canada. World War Two (1939 - 1945) and the Korean War (1950 - 1953) took even more lives. Every November 11th, Remembrance Day, Canadians pause to reflect on the sacrifice that past generations have made to help make this country, and the world, a free and peaceful place. |
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The poppy, international symbol of remembrance, came into being as such a symbol by Canadian John McCrae's World War One poem, "In Flanders Fields". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1550 - 1914: Brief Military History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1914 - 1918: The Great War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1939 - 1945: The Second World War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1950 - 1953: The Korean War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955 - today: Peacekeeping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1991: Operation Desert Storm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NATO Operations & Commitments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipers at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver, November 11th, 2002. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canada's Modern Armed Forces | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Veterans of the Second World War in Toronto, November 11th, 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Canadian National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||