#DYK that Dieppe, New Brunswick was given its present name in 1946 to commemorate the Dieppe Raid? #Dieppe75 The Second World War’s Dieppe Raid saw Canadians suffer a heavy loss of life in the attack on the shores of occupied France on August 19, 1942. The people of the small Acadian town of Leger’s Corner in southeastern New Brunswick wanted to commemorate our brave soldiers’ actions there that day and in 1946 renamed their community Dieppe. More information: http://ow.ly/O2dj30esixR Transcript

37 reactions | The Habitat for Humanity build on Jacques Street in Dieppe, New Brunswick is starting to take shape! Thank you to all the J.D. Irving, Limited employees who volunteered. #BecauseThisIsHome #HabitatForHumanity | J.D. Irving, Limited | Facebook

From our video archive - "Dieppe, 1944. The 2e Division du Canada / 2nd Canadian Division returns in triumph to the scene of their martyrdom ... In a peaceful graveyard, are 855 crosses row-on-row. During the occupation, they were erected by Frenchmen of Dieppe to mark the resting place of the gallant Canadians who fell in the Dieppe raid. Their memory is forever as fresh as the flowers brought by kind hands to their graves." | Canadian Army