WWI

The Canadian Army was created from almost nothing. Training, leadership and grit made it indispensable to the effort to win the First World War.

Our editorial: There is something beautiful in stopping work at 11 a.m. and standing at our desks in silence. But we can do better.

Canada’s war finally ended in Mons, Belgium, the scene of the first skirmishes between British and German troops in 1914.

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

1916 set the stage for the revolutions in Russia that would cast their shadow over not just the First World War but the entire 20th century

The U.S. greeted the outbreak of the First World War with disbelief, but by late 1916 thousands of Americans were already personally involved in the war

Some 3,300 Canadians were taken prisoner during WWI. One Winnipeg soldier’s secret-code letters shed new light on their experiences.