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Diefenbunker blast tunnel entrance (Photo: Diefenbunker)

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Cold War communication technology

The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum is a 9,290-square-metre (100,000-square-foot) underground bunker in Carp, Ontario – named for John Diefenbaker, Canada’s 13th Prime Minister. Located...

"Be yours to hold it high!" Buy Victory Bonds propaganda poster

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Picturing Canada’s poster war

Within popular memory and to many historians, the First World War stands at the juncture of the long 19th century and the modern age. From...

J.E. Sampson. Archives of Ontario War Poster Collection [between 1914 and 1918]. (Archives of Ontario, C 233-2-1-0-296).

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On the eve of war: Ontario in 1914

What was life like in Ontario during those years before the First World War? Before the war that saw men leave their families and friends...

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, by Margaret MacMillan

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Resources: On the eve of war: Ontario in 1914

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, by Margaret MacMillan, Allen Lane Canada (an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc.), 2013. In November...

“War declared!” Scene outside the Toronto Star office at midnight on August 4, 1914. Photo: Queen’s University Archives, A.A Chesterfield fonds.

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As summer fades

Europe was bursting with energy as the spring of 1914 gave way to one the warmest and most beautiful summers in recent memory. Much of...

Looking considerably more martial is this group of finely turned-out soldiers from Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles, stationed in England before the start of the First World War.

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Fighting power: Ontario soldiers in the making

That Canadians are an unmilitary people has become something of a cliché. But a look back at Ontario in the summer of 1914 might leave...

Laura Brandon, Acting Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa

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An interview with Laura Brandon

Recently, the Ontario Heritage Trust spoke with Laura Brandon, the Acting Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, to examine the role...

Valentine sent to Dorothy Ashbridge in 1914 from her friend Norma

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The end of an era

The years before the Great War are often romanticized as a series of garden parties, Sunday afternoon strolls in the park, stopping everything for afternoon...