Posts Tagged ‘Canadian Military Leaders’

With help from Canadian military historians, we’ve come up with a list of some of this country’s most renowned military leaders; limiting ourselves to 25 names for a pictorial salute that will surely generate debate—something we welcome in the interest of getting these names out there and promoting public awareness in Canadian military history. From the start, selecting that one word to use as a title was problematic. “Influential”, “Best”, “Famous” and “Renowned” all have connotations that can or cannot be applied to everyone on the list because some were famous while others were less celebrated, but more influential. We also need to point out that those considered for this list were either born in or resided in Canada before they made a name for themselves in the Canadian military. Helping us out with their personal picks were historians J.L. Granatstein, Marc Milner, Doug Delaney, Hugh A. Halliday, Terry Copp and John Boileau—not to mention numerous books of reference. Enjoy.