The Korean War came to an end on this date in 1953. Often called our nation’s “forgotten war,” more than 25,000 Canadians served in the conflict, with 516 making the supreme sacrifice. All branches of the armed forces – the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the army – were represented overseas as the war, which started in 1950, played out.
Lest We Forget.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.