Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

* 1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.

* 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.

Then a major setback hit the growing business: World War II was well underway and the Canadian government issued wartime rationing regulations.

Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.

The use of such spellings was the long-standing practice of the Canadian Press perhaps since that news agency's inception, but visibly the norm prior to World War II.

The word khaki is sometimes pronounced, the preferred pronunciation of the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

Forbes also contends that significant Canadian defence spending during the Second World War favoured powerful political interests in Central Canada such as C. D.

After the Second World War, the growth of the Unitarians in Canada began to show the strength which would make some Canadian organization feasible, if not imperative.

It was inspired by an article Trumbo read several years earlier, concerning the Prince of Wales hospital visit to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

* 1892 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace ( d. 1917 )

The First World War took its toll on the Canadian Geological Survey, cutting funding for anthropology and making the academic climate less agreeable.

* Film theory in Poland before World War II Marek Haltof, Canadian Slavonic Papers, March – June 1998.

Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

The Act was also used to justify German, Slavic, and Ukrainian Canadian internment during the First World War, and the internment of German-Canadians, Italian Canadians and of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".

During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.

* Canadian Wartime Propaganda-Canadian War Museum

Christening information from the bells held by the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt Museum has been entered into a searchable data archive that is accessible to any interested web site visitors.

They donated $ 100, 000 to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights after a concert they held in Winnipeg on May 24, 2008.

Fred Graffen, military historian with the Canadian War Museum, estimated in Vietnam Magazine ( Perspectives ) that approximately 12, 000 of these personnel actually served in Vietnam.

The Canadian War Museum

A military museum may be dedicated to a particular or area, such as the Imperial War Museum Duxford for military aircraft, Deutsches Panzermuseum for tanks or the International Spy Museum for espionage, The National World War I Museum for World War I or more generalist, such as the Canadian War Museum or the Musée de l ' Armée.

* The Canadian Museum of Civilisation-The History of Canada's Public Pensions

In 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveiled his mural The Canadians Opposite Lens, a donation to the Canadian War Museum from the Beaverbrook foundation.

The Identity of the Saint Francis Indians, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, National Museum Of Man Mercury Series ISSN 0316-1854, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 71 ISSN 0316-1862.

* Dr. Gordon M. Day's two-volume Western Abenaki Dictionary ( August 1994 ), Paperback: 616 pages, Publisher: Canadian Museum Of Civilization

* Photograph of Alfred Laroque, a Canadian Papal Zouave, taken at Montreal, Quebec in 1868 by William Notman ( 1826 – 1891 ), housed in the McCord Museum in Montreal.

* Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario

* Mordecai Richler in ' Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall ', Canadian Museum of Civilization

For example, the Oscar statuette won by the Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions ( 2003 ) was until recently on display at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City.

It was originally marketed as an underwater telegraph, rather than as sonar, but was later very successful, its Canadian inventor awarded the " Scientific American Magazine Gold Medal of Safety " in 1929 from the American Museum of Safety, an organization for ship captains ; some were still in use during World War II.

* The Canadian Museum of Civilization — Greece Secrets of the Past

On its formation, he was part of the first group of inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1976.