The Maclean’s First World War Cover Registry
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Hundred Years
RH Thomson’s The World Remembers commemorates sacrifice, one name at a time
For the centenary, the actor is collecting and projecting the names of the First World War’s fallen
The First World War brought the end of cavalry and the advent of the tank
The British invented the tank: an armoured vehicle that could roll over both wire and trenches. The problems, however, were many.
With stained glass and service, a Toronto church remembers the fallen
The walls and windows of St. Paul’s record its dead. Still, mysteries remain.
We printed the names of Canadians killed in the Great War. You gave their stories life.
Here’s how Canadians embraced our project to honour the fallen from the First World War—and how, with each name, our readers imbued history with another soul
Conscription divided Canada. It also helped win the First World War.
Canada’s military couldn’t have carried on without the controversial policy
How lost Canadian First World War soldiers were identified after a century
In August 2018, families honour long-missing relatives at a burial ceremony in France
Ottawa is doing a lousy job of honouring Canada’s WWI fallen
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
How Canada fought its last battle in the First World War
Canada’s war finally ended in Mons, Belgium, the scene of the first skirmishes between British and German troops in 1914.
Ahead by a century: framing Canada’s Great War, then and now
These interactive photos compare the jagged human destruction of the war to the reconstructed cities that now stand in their place