The Archivist's Pencil

The poppy is a widely recognized symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers that many choose to wear in the weeks leading up to Remembrance D...

At 5:00 a.m. the morning of November 11,1918, an armistice agreement was signed between the Germans and Allied forces, who had been at war s...

By this time 100 years ago, the First World War had been raging for nearly three years. Canada was a huge part of the war effort, whether on...

Today is Remembrance Day and we have chosen a record from the First World War to commemorate 100 years since the beginning of that great c...

Today, St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto opens a new exhibit   to mark the centenary of the Great War.   Called to Serve presents rec...

This week Canadians commemorated the 100th anniversary of our nation's entry into the First World War . On August 5, 1914, Britain decla...