Canadians of all races, backgrounds served in battles commemorated on Remembrance Day: Peter Mansbridge The story is one of a nation that sent its best to fight a vicious enemy. Its best: from ...

At the last count in 2014, Canada was still home to 75,900 living veterans of the Second World War. With an average age of 19, they would have been 16 when war was declared, and 22 when it ended.