Francis Pegahmagabow is perhaps the best known Indigenous (Anishnaabe) soldier of the First World War. He is the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and holds the record of Canada’s top marksmen with 378 kills. Much is known of his military and post-war life, many having written of […]
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The Through Veterans Eyes projects has uncovered new evidence on one of Canada’s most unique soldiers of the Great War: that of Archie Belaney, who is more commonly known in Canadian popular culture as Grey Owl. The name Archie Belaney may have been easy to glance over as just another soldier applying for […]
The digitization of Canada’s First World War veteran pension files offers a new glimpse into the early life of one of Canada’s most famous leaders, Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. Pearson. Born in 1897, Lester Pearson was a young man when the First World War broke […]
Guy Melfort Drummond was one of Canada’s earliest war heroes of the First World War. The son of Sir George Alexander Drummond, a wealthy industrialist and financier based in Montreal, Guy Drummond was widely recognized as one of the most promising young Canadians. A peacetime officer in the Canadian Militia […]