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Trophies in the Nascent Canadian Air Force” on the Vintage Wings of Canada web site. The fair was well covered by The Toronto Daily Star (notably on August 23 and September 6) and The Globe (notably August 23, 25 and 26). Ian Miller’s book Our Day of Glory and Grief: Torontonians and the Great War (UTP 2000) ends abruptly with the Armistice but comprehensively describes the society of Toronto at the end of the war. Alan Bowker’s A Time Such as There Never Was Before: Canada After the Great War (Dundurn 2014) picks up the story for the country as a whole. Tim Cook and Jack Granatstein have just released a collection of 19 essays as Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War (UBC 2020). Practically every scholar active in the field is represented and the topics range from
This amazing graphic history details the stories of soldiers from the Punjab who fought alongside British and Canadian forces in both world wars. From Renegade Arts Entertainment, publisher of The Loxleys and the War of 1812, it was written by Steven Purewal and densely illustrated by Christopher Rawlins. His richly layered pages of turbanned cavalry and infantry fighting in the trenches of the Western Front are simply awesome. The book grew out of a Great War commemoration project in British Columbia by the Indus Media Foundation and was named a Best Book of 2019 by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. For any young Sikhs who feel our legacy of the Canadian Corps has nothing to do with them, this is the book to find.
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