Military Lecture Series
Military Lecture: The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100: A material retrospective with Mike Bechthold
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIn 1968, the RCAF Flyers, winners of the 1948 Olympic Gold Medal for ice hockey, reunited for a charity game. Here, the vice chief of the defence staff, Lieutenant-General F.R.…
Military Lecture: Endgame: The Secret Force 136 by Catherine Little
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaCatherine Little explores contributions of early Canadian-born Chinese to Canada’s Second World War efforts and the sacrifices its members made to show their loyalty to a country that had utterly disregarded them. Doors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7:00, followed by a question period. Endgame: The Secret Force 136 is presented by…
Military Lecture: Evacuation of the British Airborne from Arhneim 1944 by the 23rd Royal Canadian Engineers
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaBill McVean talks on the role of Canadian engineers in the evacuation of British 1st Airborne paratroopers from Operation Market Garden at Arnhem-Oosterbeek, Netherlands in 1944. After nine days of fighting at Arnhem (A Bridge Too Far) about 2400 of surrounded British Airborne troops were evacuated across the Rhine River to safety on the south…
Military Lecture: The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTim Cook, Canada’s preeminent war historian, introduces his new book, “The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War.” Doors…
Military Lecture: The Canadian Army in the Fall of 1944 – Reappraised
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaGeoff Hayes challenges an orthodox view which holds that First Canadian Army, Cinderella on the Left, was too slow through the fall of 1944. The conscription crisis during this time…
Military Lecture: “Borderlines of the Military Masculine Identity”
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAly Firth offers an assessment of transgender roles and crossdressing in performances for the troops during the First World War. The myth of a singular masculine identity during the First World War endures in the literature, where wartime heroism has been strongly associated with the brave, heteronormative, masculine soldier. However, in the horrors of trench…
Military Lecture: A.Y. Jackson, the Group of Seven and the Great War
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAuthor Douglas Hunter explores the role of the First World War in the life and career of artist A.Y. Jackson, and its impact on the formation of Canada’s most famous art collective, the Group of Seven. The group had begun to assemble in 1914, and Jackson was the only member of the circle to volunteer…
Gunner City: Military Presence in Guelph
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaLieutenant-Colonel Miguel Ortiz-Sosa, the commanding officer of Guelph’s 11th Field Regiment, is our guest speaker. In times of conflict, Guelph and Wellington County responded to the call of collective defense…
