Manitoba became a province of Canada in 1870, though at the time it didn’t extend much past the Red River Valley (it wasn’t until 1912 that it expanded to its current boundaries). In 1871, B.C. became a province. Between them, was a vast area then known as the North-West Territories. The West was rapidly changing; … The post The nation grows appeared first on Legion Magazine.| Legion Magazine
In December 1942, a group of scientists led by Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in an abandoned squash court at the University of Chicago. The race to build the first atomic bomb had begun. One of the first items the Manhattan Project, as the initiative was known, needed was a supply …| Legion Magazine