To see all the pictures from the 109th ANZAC Day ceremony, CLICK HERE: On 25th April, 1916, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) stormed the beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula to try and take the Dardenelles Strait from the Ottoman forces (now Turkey). It was an eight month long battle which, after the…
Today (23rd April, 2024) the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Chapter #7, held a ceremony to remember the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Kapyong in Korea on April 23-25, 1951. The battle was pivotal in that it allowed the retreating South Korean forces to orderly move through the Kapyong Valley and it…
In the First, Second, and Korean Wars, Canadian soldiers were bolstered by a small contingent of individuals from many of the Latin-American countries. They came without request and without demands, only wanting to do their part in the fight for freedom from oppression. They made their own way to Canada, joined and fought with our…
Thirty years ago, the genocide of between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans, mostly ethnic Tutsis with moderate Hutus, were massacred by the Hutu-based government. Today (7th April, 2024) a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of that event was held at the Reconciliation Monument in Ottawa to remember those killed so that it hopefully never occurs again….