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The well-bundled group sheltered candles in jars as they trooped through Port Moody's replica WW1 trench, in memory of 88 local soldiers who died in similar trenches.
Manitoba Trench fever, rare disease that afflicted WWI soldiers, detected in homeless Winnipeggers 'If we didn't have this degree of poverty in Canada, we wouldn't have this disease,' doctor says ...
One element of trench life that was particularly grim, according to British soldiers, was the food. Fresh fruit, vegetables and meat were hard to come by so Tommy’s had to make do with tinned ...
Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground. They were very muddy. Some soldiers developed a problem called trench foot. In the middle was no man's land. Soldiers crossed this to attack ...
In 1938, the first volume of A. F. Duguid's planned 11-volume history of the Canadian forces in the First World War dropped like an artillery shell on the desks of Canada's book reviewers. They ...