On the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum reflects on the BCATP and Canada’s important role in training Allied air crews for victory.

Ian Willoughby Bazalgette was Alberta’s sole Victoria Cross recipient of the Second World War.

Today in our Honouring the Brave series, read about David Ernest Hornell and the heroic sinking of a German submarine.

Read about brave Canadians like Andrew Charles Mynarski as we commemorate the end of the Second World War.

During the weeks that followed the Allied landing in Normandy, in June 1944, large swaths of Western Europe were freed from German occupation, including a small portion of the Netherlands. In the rest of the country, where the great majority of its population lived, there was hope that their suffering at the hands of a cruel enemy would soon be over. In September, hoping to assist the Allies’ continuing offensive and hasten the liberation of the Netherlands, the country’s London-based government

Regarded as one of Canada’s most impressive airmen of all time, William George Barker is credited with 50 total victories.

While Alan Arnett McLeod was Canada’s youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, that’s just one of the facts that make him such an interesting historical figure.

As we prepare to commemorate Remembrance Day, the Ingenium Channel is putting the spotlight on some of Canada’s Victoria Cross recipients.

William Avery “Billy” Bishop is one of Canada’s most famous airmen of all time, and probably the most well known to come out of the First World War.