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🚢 On this day in 1940, RMS Empress of Britain was torpedoed by U-32 while under tow. She became the largest ship sunk by a German U-boat in the Second World War.
📸 Credit: Wikimedia
#OnThisDay #WWII #BattleOfTheAtlantic #CanadaRemembers
🏃 More than 800 of Canada's top young athletes ran, jumped and threw over three days in Regina. Highlights from the 2026 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships.
👇 Link in the first comment.
#LegionNationals #TrackAndField #YouthSports
⚔️ On this day in 1854, Canadian-born Lt. Alexander Roberts Dunn earned the Victoria Cross during the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the first Canadian-born recipient.
📸 Wikimedia
#OnThisDay #VictoriaCross #CrimeanWar #CanadaRemembers
🇨🇦🇳🇱 On this day in 1944, troops of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division began clearing German forces from South Beveland during Operation Vitality, a key step in the Battle of the Scheldt.
📸 Wikimedia
#OnThisDay #WWII #BattleOfTheScheldt #CanadaRemembers
⚓ Quebec has 9,000 km of coastline and 400+ years of naval tradition. A University of Ottawa historian argues a permanent Quebec naval base is long overdue.
👇 Link in the first comment.
#RoyalCanadianNavy #Quebec #NavalHistory
⛏️ On this day in 1958, an underground earthquake struck the coal mine at Springhill, N.S., trapping 174 miners. Despite determined rescue efforts, 75 lost their lives.
📸 Library & Archives of Canada
#OnThisDay #Springhill #NovaScotia #CanadaRemembers
Meet the winners of the 2026 Legion National Youth Remembrance Contests. From poems and posters to essays, their work shows what remembrance means to young Canadians.
👇 Link in the first comment.
#Remembrance #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
✈️ On this day in 1940, Squadron Leader Ernie McNab, commanding officer of No. 1 (Canadian) Fighter Squadron, became the first RCAF member to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
📸 Wikimedia
#OnThisDay #RCAF #WWII #CanadaRemembers
⚓ Retired commander Jim Hutton recalls asbestos-covered steam pipes above his berth aboard HMCS Assiniboine. The Veterans with Cancer co-founder discusses exposure in the CAF and claims reform.
👇 Link in the first comment.
#Veterans #CAF #VeteransWithCancer
🕊️ Pigeons flew secret missions over Nazi-occupied Europe in the Second World War. Beach Comber, carried ashore at Dieppe, flew home with the first word of the landing.
👇 Link in the first comment.
#WWII #DickinMedal #CanadaRemembers
⚓ On this day in 1943, HMCS Chedabucto sank after colliding with another ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, about 50 km from Rimouski, Que. We remember those aboard.
📸 Royal Canadian Navy History
#OnThisDay #RoyalCanadianNavy #WWII #CanadaRemembers
🚢 On this day in 1940, HMS Windflower—the first corvette built in Canada—was commissioned into the Royal Navy with a Canadian crew, marking the start of Canada’s vital role in the Battle of the Atlantic.
📸 Wikimedia
#OnThisDay #BattleOfTheAtlantic #WWII #CanadaRemembers
⚓🌊 #OnThisDay, Oct. 19, 1940, HMCS Bras d’Or vanished without a trace in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. All 30 crew members were lost, leaving behind one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s wartime mysteries.
📸 Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia
#CanadaRemembers #RCN #WWII
⚖️🇨🇦 #OnThisDay, Oct. 18, 1929, the Persons Case victory recognized women as “persons” under Canadian law, cementing the legacy of the Famous Five and advancing women’s rights in Canada.
📸 Library & Archives of Canada
#CanadaRemembers #PersonsCase #FamousFive
Every family has a story of service. Share a photo and short story of a family member who served Canada — selected stories will be featured during Veterans' Week (Nov 5–11).
Submit by Nov 1: legionmagazine.com/faces-of-…
#FacesOfRemembrance #LestWeForget
Legion Magazine retweeted
For 100 years, The Royal Canadian Legion has helped ensure Veterans are Remembered not only for their service and sacrifice, but for the people behind the uniform. This year, Canadians across the country shared thousands of handwritten messages of Remembrance on sticky notes, gathered through hundreds of Legion Branches. See how Canadians Remember our Veterans, in their own words.
On this day in 1976, Canada announced the purchase of 127 West German-made Leopard I C1 tanks to replace aging Centurions. Many would serve with Canadian forces in West Germany during the Cold War.
#OnThisDay #CanadianArmy #ColdWar #LeopardTank
📸 Legion Magazine Archives
🕵️ Biographer Allan Bartley on Francis “Mike” Kendall, the Canadian who led “Z” Force in Hong Kong, helped plan the escape of about 75 people during the 1941 battle, and later organized Operation Oblivion.
#HongKong #WWII #CanadianHistory
👓 Legion members and their families can save $150 on prescription glasses and sunglasses* at IRIS.
Membres de la Légion : économisez 150 $ sur les lunettes et lunettes de soleil avec prescription.*
EN: iris.ca/en/advantage-legion
FR: iris.ca/fr/avantages-legion
🇨🇦 In 1970, the FLQ abducted two men and the War Measures Act was invoked. Writing 56 years later, Richard Foot argues Canada faces its gravest threat to national integrity in over half a century, and that societies tend to fracture from within first.
#OctoberCrisis
