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The Battle of Hong Kong (December 8–25, 1941) was the first place Canadians fought a land battle in the Second World War.
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To learn more about the Battle of Hong Kong, read “War Crimes” by Nathan M. Greenfield.
A simulated invasion in Winnipeg during the Second World War gave Canadians an first-hand look at what things could be like if Nazis invaded Canada.
Canadians’ first deployment overseas deserves to be honoured.
In 2014, Guelph, Ontario honoured John McCrae as a physician, poet, and soldier with a provincial plaque on Remembrance Day.
Watch a video with Canadian veterans speaking about their experience of liberating Holland from Nazi occupation in 1945.