First World War

Opinion: If censorship of the media and controversial ideas hadn’t prevented Canadians from understanding the Great War, history could have gone differently

In August 2018, families honour long-missing relatives at a burial ceremony in France

Op-ed: In Bosnia and Afghanistan, Canada’s defence minister has heard brave soldiers question their sacrifice. So let’s thank them, and their families, for their service

From the editors: A small Ontario town is doing more to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War than the entire federal government

Even a century later, it’s difficult to say how many Canadians died in the Great War. Here’s how we determined our number.

Maclean’s has published more than 66,000 covers, each one dedicated to an individual Canadian who died in the First World War

The price of the campaign to finish off the Germans was steep for Canada: 1,544 officers and 29,262 soldiers killed, wounded or captured

It took the combined efforts of infantry, artillery, armour and air power to overcome the formidable obstacle that was Canal du Nord

Canadians knew that fighting past the Drocourt-Quéant Line would be costly. But they won an important victory in their renowned Hundred Days march to the end of the war.

The last hundred days of the First World War started on Aug. 8, 1918. One hundred years later, J.L. Granatstein chronicles those arduous final battles.