The Great War

• Canadian last to die in First World War before armistice

  Canadian Pvt. George Lawrence Price, the last British Empire soldier to die in the First World War, was shot two minutes before hostilities ceased.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2018
• Gord Gillies: A Calgary tour through the battlegrounds of the First World War

  Gord Gillies says a quiet walk through a southwest Calgary community highlights the importance of wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day.

  Blogs

  Nov 6, 2018
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• COMMENTARY: The cost of war is not just measured in deaths and dollars

  Millions of Canadians have served. More than a hundred thousand died. But as Canadians stop and remember today at 11, my thoughts will go to them.

  Commentary

  Nov 11, 2017
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• British couple takes on personal mission to put names to graves of Canada’s war dead

  A British couple, with a Canadian connection are solving the mysteries of Canadian soldiers killed in the First World War and buried in unmarked graves.

  Canada

  Jul 22, 2016
• First World War soldier’s medals stolen from Saskatchewan legion

  RCMP are investigating the theft of First World War medals from the Royal Canadian Legion in Big River, Sask.

  Canada

  Nov 5, 2014
• Bosnia marks moment when World War I started 100 years ago

  Artists and diplomats declared a new century of peace and unity in Europe on Saturday in the city where the first two shots of World War I were fired exactly 100 years ago.

  World

  Jun 28, 2014
• Bosnian Serbs erect statue of assassin who ignited WWI

  To mark the centennial of the beginning of World War I Bosnian Serbs unveiled a bronze statue on Friday of the man who assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

  Jun 27, 2014