Canada Remembers

Canada has been involved in nearly every major world conflict in the past 300 years, beginning with the French-Indian Wars and the American Revolution when George Washington laid seige to Quebec City. It was the Great War, or World War One (1914-1918) that truly bled Canada. World War Two (1939 - 1945) and the Korean War (1950 - 1953) took even more lives. Every November 11th, Remembrance Day, Canadians pause to reflect on the sacrifice that past generations have made to help make this country, and the world, a free and peaceful place.

The poppy, international symbol of remembrance, came into being as such a symbol by Canadian John McCrae's World War One poem, "In Flanders Fields".

1550 - 1914: Brief Military History

1914 - 1918: The Great War

1939 - 1945: The Second World War

1950 - 1953: The Korean War

1955 - today: Peacekeeping

1991: Operation Desert Storm

NATO Operations & Commitments

Pipers at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver, November 11th, 2002.

Canada's Modern Armed Forces

Veterans of the Second World War in Toronto, November 11th, 2000.

The Canadian National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario.