As a teenager, 93-year-old Jean Shannon knit items to be sent to the frontlines of the war. Eighty years later, the New Brunswick Military History Museum is honouring the work of knitters like Shannon and working to carry on the tradition.
The New Brunswick Historical Society has started a GoFundMe to bring the sword of Dr. John F. Stevenson, a surgeon in the American Civil War, back to the province.
The federal government will formally apologize today for the way Black soldiers of No. 2 Construction Battalion were treated during the First World War.