Source: Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press, February 14, 2019 STEINBACH, Man. — At first Amanda Kehler didn’t notice the envelope with a faded address lying among old newspapers and certificates. When she found the $1 box on the weekend, she decided to buy it, unaware it would soon send her on a search for a… Continue reading ‘Really special:’ Antique store wants to return First World War veteran’s letter to family
Tag: World War 1
In Remembrance
This year is 100 years later. One hundred years since an armistice was signed. One hundred years since the Great War, to end all wars, was completed. One years of peace? This year I attended a remembrance day celebration. We used to call them memorials – looking to the past – to memories. Now we are… Continue reading In Remembrance
First World War photos get new life in colour
Source: Marlene Leung, CTV News, November 8, 2018 A Canadian organization is telling the stories from the First World War in a new light, by painstakingly adding colour to historic black and white photos. “The First World War in Colour” project commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. For the project, the Vimy Foundation selected 150 First World War… Continue reading First World War photos get new life in colour
Remembrance Day: Visiting the peaceful forest where the First World War ended
Source: Mike Armstrong, Global News, November 9, 2018 This Remembrance Day is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Until 1931, November 11th was known as Armistice Day. The armistice was the agreement signed between France and Germany that ended the war. One of the most fascinating memorials to the First World… Continue reading Remembrance Day: Visiting the peaceful forest where the First World War ended
What’s special about this Remembrance Day? Most Canadians don’t know
Source: CTV News, November 7, 2018 Many Canadians are unaware that this year’s Remembrance Day marks a major milestone, according to a new survey. Armistice Day, now known as Remembrance Day, was first marked in Canada on Nov. 11, 1919. That date marked the one-year anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the… Continue reading What’s special about this Remembrance Day? Most Canadians don’t know
Ceremony held in honour of N.S. man who was last to die in WWI
Source: CTV News, November 4, 2018 PORT WILLIAMS, N.S. — A ceremony to honour the last soldier who died before the guns fell silent during the First World War was held in Port Williams, N.S. Sunday. “George Price was the last combatant to be killed in the First World War, two minutes before armistice,” explained… Continue reading Ceremony held in honour of N.S. man who was last to die in WWI
Kids help raise $4,500 to give forgotten WWI vet a gravestone
Source: CTV News, November 4, 2018 A forgotten First World War veteran is getting a gravestone 79 years after his death — thanks to a group of schoolchildren and a historical society in New Westminster, B.C. For nearly eight decades, William Stevenson had been lying in an unmarked grave in New Westminster’s Fraser Cemetery. When he… Continue reading Kids help raise $4,500 to give forgotten WWI vet a gravestone
London, Ont., man finds live First World War shell on driveway, police say
Source: The Canadian Press, May 16, 2018 LONDON, Ont. — Police in London, Ont., say a First World War-era shell found by a resident in his driveway has been disposed of safely. They say a man called late Tuesday morning saying he’d found the 60-centimetre long shell near his garbage. The police explosive disposal unit was called in… Continue reading London, Ont., man finds live First World War shell on driveway, police say
Edmonton teen builds replica WWI trench in mom’s vegetable garden
Source: CTV News, March 28, 2018 While some of his peers take cover in the digital trenches of video games like “Call of Duty,” Dylan Ferris will be in his very own. The Grade 10 Edmonton teenager dug a replica First World War trench over spring break in his mother’s vegetable garden. He plans to… Continue reading Edmonton teen builds replica WWI trench in mom’s vegetable garden
HOW CUBISM PROTECTED WARSHIPS IN WORLD WAR I
Source: Marty Graham, Wired.com, November 29, 2017 World War I-era camouflage technique During World War I, artists protected massive warships by hand-painting them with eye-popping monochrome shapes that fooled enemies aboard German U-boat submarines. The distracting patterns made it hard for periscope-peering targeters to be sure which part of the ship they were looking at,… Continue reading HOW CUBISM PROTECTED WARSHIPS IN WORLD WAR I