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Eighteen Canadian Soldiers Who Died Before Their 16th Birthday
An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 underage boys served for Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. “Old Enough to Fight” by Dan Black and John Boileau (Lorimer, 2013) devotes over 400 pages to the subject, while an article written by the ...
The old proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” held true for Marathon of History’s Mat Johnson while working on a Second World War display for a museum in Ontario. Mat needed a couple of dozen Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) trucks for the diorama portion of the display but couldn’t find an affordable solution. The answer seemed obvious, we’ll design ...
I was recently given this wonderful 8″ x 26.5″ panoramic photo of the Algonquin Regiment at Camp Shilo in July 1940. The photograph was taken by Cooke of Winnipeg and is entitled 1st Anniversary Algonquin Reg’t, Camp Shilo Manitoba, July 22, 1941. I encourage you to click on the thumbnail to view it in detail.