William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote concerning medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the ...
In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Excellent Britain and France was rekindled. The war this followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ...
At the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy consisted of just 13 warships and concerning 3000 permanent and reserve members. By the war's end, however, it had grown into the third largest navy in the world, together with 365 warships and extra than 100,000 personnel. The men and women of the Royal Canadian Navy came from all corners of Canada to ...