
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2021


Remembering Dieppe, Remembering “Our Boys” During the Second World War, on 19 August 1942, the Allies launched a major raid on the French coastal port of Dieppe. Operation Jubilee was the first Canadian Army engagement in the European theatre of the war, designed to test the Allies’ ability to launch amphibious assaults against Adolf Hitler’s…
Join Historian Matthew Wilkinson for our next episode of “Ask A Historian” on August 19 2021 on our YouTube channel. This week Matthew interviews John Eigl, Historical Researcher at Heritage Mississauga, on the laborious but rewarding process of researching Mississauga’s connections to the Second World War. John Eigl has recently graduated from McMaster University’s History…
On August 13, 1941, the Canadian government announced the formation of a new Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC). Women were recruited to perform support and clerical jobs that male soldiers typically performed to free up men for combat. CWAC recruits also learned military drills, gas training, calisthenics and route marches. 21,624 women served in the…
This week is Heritage Week in Ontario, and there are a number of programs celebrating our local, provincial and national heritage. In 1985, the Province of Ontario identified the third week of February as Heritage Week as a way “to stimulate awareness of heritage resources and heritage-related issues within their communities, and to honour the…

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