Canada & World War One

Remembering Canada's contribution during World War One. Those who served our country are not forgotten. They live through our memories. #WW1 #FWW

[Canada & World War One @MarikaIPirie]

#Ukrainian girl in national dress #Kharkiv circa 1890. #StandWithUkraine From my collection of historic cabinet photographs.

[Devana 🇺🇦 ↑ @DevanaUkraine]

🕯️ How Putin Came to Power — Testimony from Those He Silenced

Alexander Litvinenko, an FSB officer later murdered by Vladimir Putin, described how Putin came to power:

“They blew up a residential building on the 15th on Kashirskoye Highway, but wrote that the building had been blown up in Volgodonsk. The Volgodonsk building was actually planned to be blown up on the 17th.

Everyone who comes close to the secret of terrorism carried out by the FSB on Russian territory — absolutely everyone — is either shot or dies prematurely.”

FSB colonel Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya were convinced that these terrorist attacks were deliberately organized by Putin and the FSB in order to bring Putin to power.

Anna Politkovskaya stated that she was certain the attacks were carried out by Russian special services, who then blamed Chechens for them. There was no logic and no benefit from these terrorist acts for anyone — except Putin.

Anna Politkovskaya was also killed by Putin in 2006, just one month apart from Litvinenko’s murder.

In addition to them, everyone who investigated these attacks was also killed, including General Alexander Lebed, deputies Sergey Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, and journalist Paul Klebnikov.

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

Happy 105th Birthday to our friend, Donald Howkins! 🎂

Donald served as a Gunner with the 90th Middlesex Regiment, landing on Gold Beach. We are honoured that he attended the inauguration in 2019 and visited the completed Memorial with his family.

[#NEIVANMADE @neivanmade]

Six days submerged in freezing water.
In total darkness. In brutal cold.
All to bring warmth back to Kyiv.

After a Russian missile strike flooded one of Kyiv’s thermal power plants, a damaged pipe made immediate repairs impossible—putting heating and electricity at risk for thousands of families.

Without hesitation, Ukraine’s emergency responders dove into the icy water. Outside, -15°C. Inside, total blackout.
For six days, they worked in conditions where even breathing was a challenge.

This quiet act of bravery could have gone unnoticed.
But these are the heroes who keep Ukraine going.

Our deepest gratitude to the SES rescue team—for their courage, resilience, and humanity.

Illustration by #NEIVANMADE

@cultforces @SESU_UA @JPLindsley

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 ★ 🇨🇦 @realDark_Star]

CAF Cpl Karine Blais was blown to pieces when the vehicle she was in struck a hidden IED on the front line north of Kandahar City, Afghanistan on Apr-13-2009, while apparently doing sweet fuck all for the United States of America.

She was just 21 years old. 🙏

#CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Pictured here is Willemien Rieken. She was only 9 years old when she first began laying flowers on the grave of William Edmond, a British soldier who fought and died to liberate her Dutch Village.

From the day he died, and for 75 years, she looked after his grave and kept his memory alive.

During WWII, William served with the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron and took part in the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands. Sadly, on September 17, 1944, he was shot in the back by a German sniper and fell to the ground.

One of his comrades, St David Christie, rushed to his aid, but nothing could be done to save William. Seconds before dying, he said to David: "Tell my wife I love her." This British soldier was then buried at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

Willemien Rieken passed away in 2020. She was one of the last surviving Flower Children, young people who laid flowers at hundreds of graves of Allied casualties in a ceremony after the end of the war.

Niall Cherry, secretary of the Arnhem 1944 Fellowship, said: "She was one of the last surviving Dutch civilian links to the Battle of Arnhem. Willemien was a lovely lady who tended to the grave of Trooper Edmund for many years. She will be sadly missed."

The most haunting photos ever taken: https://t.co/POrqRRccxc

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov threatened Ukraine and Europe, predicting a future military alliance between the US and Russia. He claimed to understand Trump better than anyone else. If you want to see Orwellian propaganda in real life, watch this.
https://t.co/CWCfJB2BWT

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Donald: "Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed"

Prez:

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Bingo. Ukraine is no threat to Russia and never has been, so demanding it disarm and abandon its strongest defenses has only one point, making it easier for Russia to win the next stage of the war.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Rose Valland spent nearly four years in a museum office surrounded by German officers who assumed she was harmless, mute, and culturally insignificant. They spoke freely, issued commands, documented plunder, and discussed train routes for stolen masterpieces. They believed she understood none of it. What they didn’t realize was that Valland was quietly fluent in German and meticulous beyond measure. She wrote down everything—artist names, crate numbers, departure dates, warehouse locations—and copied coded catalog lists late at night when no one was watching. She memorized routes when she couldn’t risk paper, then passed information to Resistance contacts who safeguarded each detail as if it were a life.

When Paris was liberated and Nazi art caches were uncovered, her secret notebooks became maps. Because she had listened when listening was dangerous, Rembrandts, Picassos, tapestries, altarpieces, and Jewish family portraits were traced back to owners who had been murdered, displaced, or silenced. Her quiet defiance challenged the myth that espionage belongs to those with guns and uniforms. Valland’s weapon was observation; her battlefield was a gallery desk. She didn’t recover art for glory, but to repair a world torn from families and memory—one shipment, one signature, one whispered detail at a time.

#archaeohistories

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

Think of World War remembrance and what’s the first image that comes to mind? Chances are it’s a single blood-red poppy.

The little flowers, which bloom over the former battlefields of Belgium, are one of the defining symbols of commemoration and remembrance in the UK. But where did it come from? The answer lies 'In Flanders Fields.'

'In Flanders Fields' is a poem by Lt. Col John McCrae. The poem is evocative of the sights John McCrae saw while serving on the Western Front. It was first published anonymously 110 years ago in Punch magazine in London on December 8th, 1915. 

Read more on For Evermore.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

Putin doesn't understand who he is trying to destroy. Ukrainians are unbreakable.
This is Bucha 🔽

[Canadian War Museum @CanWarMuseum]

On Dec 6, 1917, HMCS Niobe sailors rushed to a burning ship in Halifax Harbour. A massive explosion killed nearly 2,000 and destroyed the city. Acting Boatswain Mattison and Stoker Beard were posthumously awarded the Albert Medal ⚓ CWM 20030146-036 #HalifaxExplosion1917

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

During an overnight attack on Fastiv near Kyiv, this frightened doggo ran into a bathroom to hide from the loud explosions outside.

Animals don’t understand what’s happening, and why someone's trying to harm them💔

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

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[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

a Ukrainian train of national @Ukrzaliznytsia railways arrives on schedule to the Fastiv train station in central Ukraine, bombed by russians overnight. name me more resilient people.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Tonight was supposed to be a magical Saint Nicholas night when children across Ukraine waited for their presents and tiny moments of wonder.

Instead, Russian war criminals unleashed one of the largest attacks yet on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, firing more than 700 drones and missiles, including 300 Shaheds. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 615 of them.

[Canada & World War One @MarikaIPirie]

@Noirchick1 Double Indemnity 1944

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

The russians got their Christmas wish: Lviv without power⚡️🤬

After this morning’s huge missile barrage, little grandmas and children are freezing in their homes as the power is out and it feels like -2 °C.

Congrats, russia, you waste of fucking space.

[Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Morning from Ukraine…
On St. Nicholas Day - a day of miracles -
russia sent us 653 shaheds,
34 cruise missiles, Kinzhals and Iskanders.
That was their “gift”.

I spent the whole night on the corridor floor
With my cat, waiting for it to be over.
And the town where my mom lives is now
Without electricity and heating -
Just cold, darkness, and fear.

They keep trying to destroy us.
Yet every morning we rise again.
Maybe that’s the only miracle we have left.