Canada’s First World War sacrifice by the numbers
Canada’s extensive war records offer a detailed look at where and when soldiers died during the First World War—and where they were laid to rest
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Hundred Years
Why we’re honouring exactly 66,349 Canadians who died in the First World War
Even a century later, it’s difficult to say how many Canadians died in the Great War. Here’s how we determined our number.
The memory remains: Capturing the echoes of the First World War
Peter Macdiarmid’s images are miniature time machines. They meld archival photographs of the Canadian war effort with photos of...
In their honour, we publish their names
Maclean’s has published more than 66,000 covers, each one dedicated to an individual Canadian who died in the First World War
At Cambrai, Canada smashed desperate German defences
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
Canada’s audacious plan to beat an unbeatable enemy on this day in 1918
It took the combined efforts of infantry, artillery, armour and air power to overcome the formidable obstacle that was Canal du Nord
How Canada broke through Germany’s critical Hindenburg Line in 1918
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.
On this day 100 years ago, Canadian troops led the First World War’s final charge
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.