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Montreal’s Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada.

Pierre Boulle’s The Bridge Over The River Kwai. The absurdity of war.

Lieutenant Commander Norman Wilkinson's large oil painting ‘Canada’s Answer’ depicts the sailing of Canada's First Contingent of troops, over 31,000 strong, from Canada to England, October 1914.

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill.

Panzer, T34, Sherman, and Churchill tanks side by side at the Canadian War Museum.

Forceful III, Sherman tank that survived fighting in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany for The Governor General’s Foot Guard in WWII. Found at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

Summertime reading. CS Forester’s The Age of Fighting Sail.

HMCS Haida in Hamilton, Ontario. Tribal class destroyer that served in the Second World War, the Korean Conflict and the Cold War.

Winnipeg’s Sir William Stephenson. The man called Intrepid.

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The Roaring Lion at Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa.

Near the elevators on the first floor of downtown Toronto Hudson’s Bay, the Roll of Honour lists the names of Simpsons department store staff who made the supreme sacrifice during WWII.

Just. Brilliant.

HMCS Sackville, the last surviving Flower-class Corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy. Now a museum ship in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The First Special Service Force of WWII, a joint US-Canadian commando unit active from 1942 to 1944.

A Canadian soldier of The Great War, known unto God. Vimy Ridge. 🇨🇦

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion combat boots on display at the Juno Beach Centre in Courseulles-sur-Mer.

WWII tanker helmet from The British Columbia Dragoons. This and other important artifacts found at the Okanagan Military Museum.

"Gentlemen, in spite of your excellent training and orders, do not be daunted if chaos reigns. It undoubtedly will."

-Brigadier James Hill heading into June 6, 1944

Canada Bereft, Mother Canada at Vimy Ridge. Carved out of a single, 30-tonne block, the cloaked woman represents Canada mourning her fallen sons.

British and Canadian paratroopers securing the east flank at bridges like this in the early hours of June 6th, 1944.

Blue Beach, Dieppe France.

Juno Beach. 🇨🇦

Always remember. Abbey Ardennes on the outskirts of Caen France. Kurt Meyer, leader of the German 25th Panzer Grenadier regiment of the 12th SS (the Hitler Youth) executed Canadian soldiers in the days after June 6, 1944.

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Times like these Battlestar Galactica keeps me on the straight and narrow. @fearlessfred.bsky.social