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Stock Market Crash
The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs reckoned that "Never before the 1929 crash had amounts that ran into billions of dollars been lost on the Canadian Stock Exchanges in so brief a period of time." In Montréal, some 500,000 shares were sold; in Toronto, 330,000 were sold. -
Government Opens Relief Camps
In the midst of the Great Depression, the Canadian government opened federal relief camps in rural areas of Canada. The Department of National Defence managed the camps along the lines of army training camps. -
Trek and Regina Riot
More men joined the trek and many communities welcomed the trekkers like modern-day folk heroes. As the trek grew in popularity, police, military, and government authorities, decided it had to be stopped. -
Germany Invades Poland
The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic, though Poland never formally surrendered. Hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians were killed during the September invasion of Poland and millions more were killed in the following years of German and Soviet occupation. -
Battle Of Hong Kong
The Battle of Hong Kong, also known as the Defense of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong. -
Dieppe Attack
The Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery is located approximately five kilometres south of Dieppe, in the town of Hautôt-sur-Mer. Of the 944 members of the British and Allied Armed Forces buried at Dieppe, 707 are Canadian, most victims of the Raid on Dieppe. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Canadian Troops Free The Netherlands
From September 1944 to April 1945, the First Canadian Army fought German forces on the Scheldt estuary - opening the port of Antwerp for Allied use - and then cleared northern and western Netherlands of Germans, allowing food and other relief to reach millions of desperate people.