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DND/CAF Eagle Staff
Indigenous soldiers brought valuable skills from their backgrounds, excelling as snipers and reconnaissance scouts. At least 50 were awarded medals for bravery, including Métis sniper Henry Louis Norwest, known for his remarkable patience and credited with 115 enemy kills before his death on Aug. 8, 1918. Despite past injustices, Indigenous soldiers enlisted again during WWII, […]
Historic Visit
A hawk circled high in the bright blue sky and a family of otters splashed and frolicked by the shoreline as Sgt Moogly Tetrault-Hamel and paddlers from the Songhees nation headed for an inlet off Esquimalt harbour in a traditional Coast Salish family canoe last Wednesday. In his hands was the Canadian Armed Forces Eagle […]
