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Canada clothed, fed, equipped and armed more than one million Canadians in uniform and built and exported massive quantities of everything

Before the Americans could storm ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day as part of the Allied invasion of Western Europe, their path to success was partly due to some ships from Halifax.

Over the skies of Dieppe, Frances, 80 years ago Friday, George Hill of Pictou, N.S., scored his first aerial victory. It was the first of many for the decorated fighter pilot, who became a legendary figure in his hometown for his prewar and war exploits.

An American with a passion for military history set out last fall to find the wreckage from a Second World War plane that crashed off the coast of the Bahamas during a training exercise. One of the pilots on board was from Halifax.

In 1953, the Canadian government relocated Inuit families to Ellesmere Island—thousands of kilometers from home. It wasn’t the first or last time that Inuit were used to assert Arctic sovereignty.