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The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually active in nearly every theatre of war , most combat was centred in Italy , [ 1 ] Northwestern Europe, [ 2 ] and the North Atlantic.
The Valour and the Horror is a Canadian television documentary miniseries, which aired on CBC Television in 1992. The series investigated three significant Canadian battles from the Second World War and was a co-production between the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Galafilm Inc. [1] The films were also broadcast by Radio-Canada, the French network of the CBC.
This is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast by Canadian television channel History and its former incarnation as History Television. This list is current as of September 2014. This list is current as of September 2014.
November 25 – World War II: German submarine U-1228 sinks HMCS Shawinigan in the Cabot Strait. All 91 sailors of Shawinigan ' s crew are killed: the worst case of military deaths in Canadian territory during the war. December 24 – World War II: HMCS Clayoquot sunk off Halifax by German submarine U-806
September 10 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, one week after the United Kingdom does so. September 11 – World War II: Canada establishes a High Commission of Canada in Australia. Australia reciprocates the next day. [4] September 16 – World War II: The Royal Canadian Navy escorts the first of many transatlantic convoys.
The channel also frequently commissions original documentary television films on historical topics, with noteworthy examples having included the World War II documentaries The Real Inglorious Bastards [6] and Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust, [7] the four-part Black Canadian history series BLK, An Origin Story, [8] and the Indigenous ...
August 2 – The Canadian Armoured Corps becomes the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps; August 15 – VJ Day marks the end of the Second World War. Over a million Canadians had fought in the conflict and 42,000 were killed. September 5 – The defection of Soviet embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko reveals a Soviet spy ring in Canada.
Pages in category "Canadian military personnel killed in World War II" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .