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Canada and the Victoria Cross

The next issue in the award-winning series Canada’s Ultimate Story is Canada and the Victoria Cross. No one ever set out to earn a Victoria Cross, which is awarded for “valour in the face of the enemy.” They were mostly spontaneous acts in the heat of battle. Of 98 Canadian recipients, 36 received their award posthumously.

The lore behind the VC is sprinkled with strange and heart-wrenching stories. Victoria Crosses have been cherished, stolen, lost, recovered, sold and even pawned. Some recipients attained high office; some died in poverty.

For dozens of action-packed accounts of valour and sacrifice on the battlefield, subscribe to Canada’s Ultimate Story today and get Canada and the Victoria Cross as your first issue, available across Canada in November 2020.

Plus, you will be entered into a contest to win an Apple iPad!
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Climate anomaly caused WW I mud,
flu pandemic: study

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

The First World War is synonymous with torrential rain, deathly deep mud and bitter cold. It seems no stalemate or major battle was without these added miseries that brought with them disproportionate infection, disease and death.

Now a new scientific study says a once-in-a-lifetime climate anomaly is to blame for the horrendous weather that contributed to hundreds of thousands of battlefield deaths and the 1918 Spanish flu (H1N1) pandemic that cost tens of millions of lives worldwide.

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The bombing of Dortmund

Story by Sharon Adams

In the fall of 1945, a new Allied bombing directive called for heavy attacks on Germany’s industrial heartland, with oil, transportation and communication the chief targets, and the added objective of eroding civilian morale.

The directive said the aim was virtual destruction of areas attacked, demonstrating the overwhelming superiority of Allied air forces.

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October 7, 1918

The Spanish Flu claims its first victim in Montreal. The pandemic kills
approximately 50,000 Canadians and an estimated 7 million to 50 million worldwide.

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