The Second World War in Canada
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Canadians contributed in many ways to our country’s great efforts in the Second World War.
Second World War Historica Minutes
The Historica Minutes are one-minute movies that portray exciting and important stories from Canada’s past.
Canada and the Second World War
The Second World War lasted six terrible years and left a legacy of death and destruction. It was truly a world war encircling the globe from the Atlantic to the pacific and touching the far reaches of the Arctic.
The Battle of the Atlantic
What a miserable, rotten hopeless life . . . an Atlantic so rough it seems impossible that we can continue to take this unending pounding and still remain in one piece.
The British Commonwealth Air Training plan
In 1939, prime Minister Mackenzie King had a dream which he believed was a sign of “the power of the airplane in determining ultimate victory” for the war effort.
The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which saw German U-boats penetrate the Cabot Strait and the Strait of Belle Isle to sink 23 ships between 1942 and 1944, marked the only time since the War of 1812 that enemy warships inflicted death within Canada’s territorial waters.