Honouring Bravery

Honouring Bravery's travelling exhibition, When Daylight Comes: The Canadians on D-Day, is currently on display at Fanshawe College.

Launched in 2024, Honouring Bravery tells authentic stories of diverse military heroes from across Ontario and throughout Canada. Their D-Day exhibition highlights the stories of Canadians who took part in the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, offering a powerful look at a significant moment from the Second World War.

Are you interested in bringing this free exhibition to your school, library, museum, or community organization? Reserve the panels through Honouring Bravery's online form: https://honouringbravery.fillout.com/en

Attention educators! Our latest exhibit “The Forgotten Front: Canada in the Asia-Pacific War” is now available online!

After Japan declared war on the United States and Great Britain in December 1941, Canada quickly came to the defence of its two biggest allies.

Soon Canadians found themselves fighting in a whole new theatre of war: the Pacific.

Frequently overshadowed by the war in Europe, Canadians contributed to many operations in the Pacific Theatre.

Explore the stories of Canadians who served in this often-overlooked contribution of the Second World War.

The Forgotten Front: Canada in the Asia-Pacific War, available now on our website: https://honouringbravery.ca/ex/forgotten-front/

Honouring Bravery – Authentic stories of diverse Canadian heroes The program is built around fact-based storytelling, focusing on authentic stories of diverse military heroes from across Canada. This approach helps ensure that students not only gain a deeper understanding of Canada’s military history, but also fosters empathy and respect for all of those who ha...

Je me souviens - Programme Éducatif is back with another weekly series: Failure Friday!

Every Friday they will post one of their top 10 worst ideas in war.

Check back this Friday, June 5th, for their first post!

Des inventions inusitées, des opérations ratées et l'utilisation très douteuse d'animaux : la guerre a été parfois l'occasion des plus grands échecs de la pensée humaine 😵 Cet été, découvrez notre nouveau classement : 𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐝é𝐞𝐬 (𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞) 🙌 À tous les vendredis, c'est 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 où nous vous présenterons les pires moments de l'histoire militaire ! Rendez-vous le 𝟓 𝐣𝐮𝐢𝐧 pour le début ✨

Did you know Peacekeeper Park in Angus, Ontario has a special LAV III monument?

Like the other 32 LAV III monuments across Canada, this was created from a decommissioned LAV III. Unlike the others, though, this LAV III was used for United Nations missions and is thus painted white. The monument commemorates all CAF members who served in Afghanistan and other UN sanctioned missions.

For teachers wanting to explore this and other LAV III monuments across Canada, check out our LAV III classroom activity: https://honouringbravery.ca/act/lav-iii-workhorse-of-the-canadian-army/

📸: Credit to Canada Company

For Polish Heritage Month, let’s talk about Vincent Sature Korzydlowski.

Born in Lask, Poland in 1904, Vincent attended university in Warsaw before coming to Canada in 1926.

Vincent worked as an auto mechanic at the Chrysler factory in Windsor, Ontario before enlisting in the RCAF 1940. In 1941, he became a gunner with 51 Squadron.

While returning from a bombing mission on October 31, 1941, Vincent's plane was shot down and he was killed. He is buried in Texel (Den Burg) Cemetery in the Netherlands.

📸: Unfortunately, there are no good images of Vincent for us to share, so instead we have featured his notification of death in today’s graphic, courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.

Lester ‘Bub’ Brown was drafted into the Canadian Army when he was 23 and took part in the Normandy Invasion with the Queen’s Own Rifles.

Although he made it past the beach without injury, he was wounded in both the knee and chin while helping to take the town of Bretteville-sur-laize.

After the war, Lester worked as a railway porter and conductor for the Canadian Pacific Railway. At the time of his death in 2013, he was considered the last Black Canadian to take part in the D-Day invasions.

Learn more about D-Day, including people who served, like Lester, in our virtual exhibit, When Daylight Comes: The Canadians on D-Day https://honouringbravery.ca/ex/when-daylight-comes/

📸: Credit to Black Canadian Veterans Stories

Presenting "Discipline on the docket: Courts martial and the lives of Quebec soldiers during the Second World War", Je me souviens' most recent article!

Available in English: https://jemesouviens.org/en/discipline-on-the-docket/
And French: https://jemesouviens.org/fr/derriere-la-discipline/

For Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, we are highlighing the life of Harry Markus, one of thousands of Jewish Canadians to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force during WWI.

Harry was a printer in Toronto before serving with the 19th battalion overseas. On the morning of April 10th, 1916, shrapnel from an enemy’s shell killed him instantly while he was in the frontline trenches just east of St. Eloi.

📸: Credit to the Canadian Virtual War memorial.