🍁 We Remember

Note the focus on remembrance as this month’s theme in the Canada’s History magazine.

Also, due to the fact that we are in the remembrance period, we’re likely to see more activity in the blog portion of our website over the next couple of weeks.


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Canada's History

Over the Top

How a photographer faked Canada’s most iconic battlefield images. Read more

War Games

A Canadian War Museum exhibition highlights the history of strategy gaming, from deadly serious to light-hearted. Read more

Canada in the Korean War

Podcast: The border between North and South Korea bristles with weapons and with mistrust. A stress point in current global tensions, the border on the 38th Parallel is a seventy-year-old legacy of the Korean War. Listen now

Lee-Enfield Rifle

A soldier carved his memories into his Second World War weapon. Read more

Airplane Nose Art

Decorations on a Second World War bomber recall Quebec’s contribution to the conflict. Read more

Canada in Focus: War and Peace

Is Canada really a nation of peacekeepers? Watch now

History Bits: Flying and Spying

Chinese-Canadian Kam Len “Doug” Sam served in the air force in the Second World War. Shot down in France, he gathered critical information as a spy for the Allies. Watch now

End of the Second World War

2020 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. For Remembrance Day we curated a collection of our online articles, audio, images and video about that era. Read more

The War to End All War

November 2018 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War. A century later, the conflict continues to affect us — even if we don’t fully realize it. This is our collection from the past ten years of articles, audio, images and video about the Great War. Read more

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Canada’s History Archive featuring The Beaver

Please note: Some items featured in our newsletters and social media will include links to the Canada’s History Archive. The Beaver magazine was founded, and for decades was published, during eras shaped by colonialism. Concepts such as racial, cultural, or gender equality were rarely, if ever, considered by the magazine or its contributors. In earlier issues, readers will find comments and terms now considered derogatory. Canada’s History Society cautions readers to explore the archive using historical thinking concepts — not only analyzing the content but asking questions of who shaped the content and why.
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How we talk about war and remembrance

An item from the Legion Magazine.


Front Lines
Front Lines

Stephen J. Thorne

How we talk about war and remembrance

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

The language of war and remembrance is couched in euphemism, hyperbole and a healthy dose of gilded lilies. In short, a lot of overused words and hackneyed phrases that tend to glorify and obfuscate, comfort and satisfy.

In war, politicians and military mucky-mucks use alternative language to soften the reality of, or maintain support for, humankind’s greatest failure—phrases or words such as “collateral damage” for civilian casualties, “enhanced interrogation techniques” for torture, “ethnic cleansing” for genocide, and “conflict” for war.

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O Canada: 75+ of the most genuinely Canadian things
Military Milestones
Military Milestones

CWM

Canada’s early naval struggles

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

“This is going to be an awful trip,” sailor James Reeves reflected in a letter to his wife.

Reeves was by no means a complainer, and his sentiment, echoed by his mates, was prophetic. The crew of HMCS Galiano were set to sail “the Triangle,” a body of water between B.C.’s Cape Scott and Cape St. James deemed the “worst piece of water on the Pacific Coast.” The ship traversed the foreboding stretch in an attempt to provide Triangle Island residents with supplies and gasoline during a wicked October storm.

“I don’t think we will be home until the end of November,” fellow shipmate James Aird commented. “I dread the Triangle.”

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Member Benefit Partner

Upper Canada Wills

Join Dominion President Bruce Julian and Darlene Julian, BST Vacations, and Royal Canadian Legion members from across Canada on an Ultimate Southern Caribbean Cruise on the innovative Celebrity Silhouette. This 10-night cruise will be sailing to St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Tobago, Grenada, & Antigua, includes 4 glorious days at sea, and 1 night pre-cruise in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Discover amazing enhancements at every turn. You’ll relax in transformed staterooms that are so gorgeous, you may never want to leave your room!

Canadian Heritage Night: Sharks vs. Canucks

Earlier this evening, Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion participated in the annual Canadian Heritage Night organized by the San Jose Sharks, Digital Moose Lounge, the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco and the British Columbia Trade and Investment.  The event featured pre-game access in the Rinkside Room, Augie’s smoked meat sandwich and Poutine Bar, a bar with Canadian Beer, and Nanaimo bars.  Branch 25 was there to distribute poppies to all who came through the door.

Additionally, the Consul General was on hand to drop the puck for the ceremonial face-off – sporting his poppy!

And there was also a hockey game between the San Jose Sharks and the Vancouver Canucks.

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Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco – Representing Northern California & Hawaii and servicing Canadians visiting and living in the United States.

British Columbia Trade and InvestmentThe British Columbia Government supports international companies who want to invest, expand, and do business in B.C. Helping them build strong links to resources, skills, and businesses that make British Columbia an attractive place to work and invest.

Veterans Day at the Presidio Chapel – In Person & Livestream Link

Note this upcoming event in the Bay Area.  So if you aren’t able to join us in Petaluma, we encourage you to check out this service.


Interfaith Center at the Presidio

Unleashing the Power of

Interreligious Cooperation

Veterans Day Interfaith Service

Please join us

on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 9:00 am

Presidio Chapel

130 Fisher Loop, San Francisco

Keynote Address by Mr. Michael Blecker

Executive Director, Swords to Plowshares

If you are not able to join us in person, the service will be livestreamed: https://www.youtube.com/live/ciCdrwjLDXU?si=P15RzIwG2DSe_jX2

Please RSVP to: presidiointerfaith@gmail.com

Interfaith Center at the Presidio

Presidio Chapel

130 Fisher Loop, P.O. Box 29055, San Francisco, CA 94129

415-561-3930 (office); 415-515-5681 (cell)

www.interfaithpresidio.org * Email: presidiointerfaith@gmail.com