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• Filmmaker-actor Paul Gross wins Canada’s top history prize for Passchendaele

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 442
  Randy Boswell/Canwest News ServiceCanada’s top history prize, typically given to historians and other writers who popularize Canada’s past, will garner some celebrity limelight this year when the 2009 Pierre Berton Award is handed to actor-director Paul Gross for his First World War film epic Passchendaele.The ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Remembrance Day, Canada, and WW1

  
  The Scratched Cynic — Authority: 110
  The poppies of Flanders. Ypres, 2008. This is a long, long, long post, but I’m not going to apologize for it because today’s topic deserves a little extra effort and little extra attention. Today is Remembrance Day, which means that across Canada and in many other countries around the world, people will be ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Great War in Colour

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 653
  On this day, ninety-one years ago, the guns that raged over the battlefields of Europe for more than four years fell silent. Never before had slaughter on such an industrial scale been conceived of, and never again would the lives of those who survived be the same again. Environmental Graffiti has... This is just a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harry Patch: the reluctant hero

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  In an exclusive extract from his new biography Peter Parker charts the remarkable life of Britains last World War One veteran Harry Patch.
  4 weeks ago

• November 6 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  On November 6: 1528  Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot in Texas. 1851   Charles Dow , American journalist and economist, was born.   1856  The first work of fiction by George Eliot was submitted for publication. ...
  4 weeks ago

• DVD Review: Passchendaele

  
  Row Three — Authority: 510
  Directors: Paul Gross ( Men With Brooms ) Screenplay: Paul Gross Producer: Niv Fichman Starring: Alex Arsenault, Meredith Bailey, Gil Bellows, Don Bland, David Brown, Tom Carey, Jason Cermak, Ryan Cowie, Ross Crockett MPAA Rating: 14A Running time: 114 min. ***½~ (3.5/5) T he first time I really ...
  4 weeks ago

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