Canadian soldier

At two minutes before eleven, as millions of soldiers on the Western Front waited for the hostilities to end, a Canadian soldier, Private George Price, was killed by a German sniper’s bullet at the French village of Ville-sur-Haine.

Things like a child going into a residential school had a greater chance of dying because of the deplorable conditions than a Canadian soldier did going into World War II. This system existed all over the U.S. as well and it’s so, so important that we contend with this history.

"I think the really critical event that defines gun culture today, although people don't recognise it, is actually 9/11," said AJ Somerset, a former Canadian soldier and journalist who spent much of his career documenting the firearms industry.

“They’re a bad bunch,” said one Canadian soldier.

They became a symbol of remembrance after 1915, when Canadian soldier and surgeon John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, ending with the lines "we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields".