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An adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax wants to start an archaeological team that actively searches for Canadians missing in action to hopefully provide closure to some families.

Three Canadian soldiers from the First World War have been laid to rest today at Loos British Cemetery, Loos-e...

The Canadian government has announced a First World War soldier has been identified using DNA technology more than 100 years after he died. 

More than 100 years after a Canadian soldier went missing on a bloody battlefield during the First World War, his remains have been identified after being found in France.

Source: Courtesy of Canada’s Department of National Defence Forensic techniques can be used to identify and lay to rest casualties of war. In the photo, Private Kenneth Donald Duncanson, a second world war soldier whose remains were identified by Canada’s Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces in May 2016, is laid to rest with military honours by his unit in Adegem Canadian War Cemetery outside Bruges, Belgium. Providing medical care, housing, food and a safe place are...