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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children and the Making of Wartime Canada by Kelly Morrison
DESCRIPTION:At 102\, Sir George Beardshaw is the last surviving veteran of the Second World War-era Queen’s Own Rifles and the only surviving British “Home Child” left in Canada. He is one of approximately 100\,000 poor or orphaned child migrants sent to this country as part of British social and philanthropic programs developed across the United Kingdom between 1869 and 1939. Many Home Children\, despite enduring hardship and abuse in their placements\, chose to stay in Canada and contribute to this country’s efforts in the First and Second World Wars—approximately 10\,000 in the Great War and 20\,000 in the Second World War. Countless others served in various ways on the Canadian home front. Kelly Morrison’s presentation introduces Beardshaw and a select group of Home Children\, revealing how this marginalized group helped to define Canada’s national wartime and postwar identity. \nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7:00 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation is available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch the Recording\n\nAbout the Speaker\n \nKelly Morrison is a PhD candidate in history\, specializing in War & Society studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She earned her Honours BA and MA in history at the University of Toronto. Morrison has published two articles: In 2016\, “The North West Rebellion Monument and its Enduring Place in the Historical Landscape of Toronto\,” for ImagiNATIONS\, the University of Toronto’s Journal of Canadian Studies; and in 2020\, “The Missing and the Missed of Lanark County\, Ontario: Great War Sacrifice and the Memorialization of Exclusion in ‘The Volunteer’ Monument\,” for the Journal of Ontario History. She has guest lectured on the subject of War\, Commemoration and Propaganda at the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University. She has been a guest speaker on Home Child history at the Brant Museum and Archives and the British Consulate in Toronto. She is a regular keynote speaker at Remembrance Day luncheons hosted by the Royal Canadian Navy and HMCS York from 2020-2025.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-lives-of-servitude-and-service-british-home-children-and-the-making-of-wartime-canada-by-kelly-morrison/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: From Sherbrooke with Love: Illicit Correspondence\, Civilian Internment\, and Canada in the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Wagenaar examines a case of illicit correspondence between a Canadian teenager and a group of civilian internees in Quebec in the early years of the Second World War. Through a micro-historical assessment\, she explores context regarding the development and use of internment systems in Canada\, the social dynamics within and beyond these camps\, and the afterlives\, expected and otherwise\, of wartime stories and sources. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch the Recording\n\nAbout the Speaker\n \nGillian Wagenaar is a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Her research looks at Canadian correspondence at both the heart and margins of the Second World War\, connecting homefront and battlefront\, and examining the meaning of letters and how they get from one point to another. Through this work\, she aims to make the exploration of history more accessible through digital methods\, storytelling\, and hands-on engagement with the past.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-from-sherbrooke-with-love-illicit-correspondence-civilian-internment-and-canada-in-the-second-world-war/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The History of the University of Guelph War Memorial Hall
DESCRIPTION:Austin Foster presents the history of the University of Guelph’s War Memorial Hall\, based on archival research for the War Memorial Hall: Its Early History\, Heritage\, and Legacy – A Centennial Retrospective (1924–2024) report. The presentation addresses the Ontario Agricultural College’s military context\, focusing on its experience during the First World War\, the fundraising campaigns and commemorative efforts that supported the project\, and the active involvement of students and the wider community. It also examines the design propositions considered for War Memorial Hall\, the practical challenges faced during its planning and construction\, and the building’s role throughout the interwar years and the Second World War. \nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation is available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recordings\nPart 1 \n\nPart 2  \n\nPart 3  \n\nAbout the Speaker\n \nAustin Foster\, MA\, CAHP-In\, is a historical researcher and writer specializing in heritage conservation. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies and History and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Guelph. His professional and volunteer experience spans academia\, archival management\, archaeology\, municipal heritage planning\, and historical conservation. He has contributed to Euro-Canadian and Indigenous archaeological projects\, worked on heritage conservation initiatives\, and conducted research for the Canadian War Memorials Database. Foster is a professional member of the Canadian Museums Association and an intern member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-history-of-the-university-of-guelph-war-memorial-hall/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Training the Ukrainian Army Before Russia Attacked
DESCRIPTION:Capt. Jeff Fry will share his experience training the Ukrainian army before the start of the war with Russia. Capt. Fry was deployed on OP UNIFIER in Ukraine from July 2020 to May 2021 where he served as the Officer Development Team Lead at the Odessa Military Academy and Airborne Assault School. He will talk about instructing Ukrainian officer cadets on Troop Leading Procedure and Ukrainian Army Brigade Staff on Military Decision Making Process (OPP)\, and advising and assisting Academy staff at a national level to develop new course material and training. \nDoors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m.\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation is available on YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout The Speaker\nCaptain Jeffrey Allan Fry\, CD was born in Toronto Ontario on 20 March 1976 and raised in Guelph after his family moved for work in 1982. After completing high school\, Captain Fry was enrolled into the Army Reserve in 1995.  He served two years with the Royal Highland Fusiliers in Cambridge after completing basic training. In the winter of 1997\, he was accepted as an Officer Cadet. In the spring and summer of 1997\, Captain Fry completed Phases 1 and 2 at the Combat Training Centre at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown\, New Brunswick. \nUpon moving to Toronto in 1998\, Captain Fry transferred to the Governor General’s Horse Guards and was selected to attend the armoured crew commander course with Royal Canadian Armoured School (Wainwright\, Alberta) during the summer of 1998. After completion of the course\, he returned to the regiment and continued armoured officer OJT. In June 1999\, he returned to Wainwright\, Alberta and completed the armoured Troop Leader course. \nCaptain Fry continued to serve with the GGHG as a troop leader in A Squadron and subsequently a battle captain until moving back to Guelph Ontario for civilian work in 2001. \nOn his return to Guelph\, he was attached to the 11th Field Regiment\, Royal Canadian Artillery. After some persuasion\, the decision was made to officially transfer to the Royal Canadian Artillery and\, in 2002 Captain Fry attended the Command Post Officer and Reconnaissance Officer course\, Royal Canadian Artillery School. He returned to the regiment and was employed as a Command Post Officer and Reconnaissance Officer in the autumn of 2002.  He attended the Officer Staff Course\, Canadian Army Staff College Toronto from January to April 2003. \nBetween 2002 and 2009\, Captain Fry held various positions\, including Command Post Officer\, Reconnaissance Officer\, Gun Position Officer\, Battle Captain and Adjutant. In 2009 he transferred to inactive supplementary reserve to start a civilian company. \nIn 2016\, while still residing in Guelph\, Captain Fry returned to primary reserve with the 7th Toronto Regiment\, Royal Canadian Artillery as there were no positions available with 11th Field Regiment. He proudly accepted the chance to return to the Royal Canadian Artillery when a position was made available at 7th Toronto Regiment. He returned as CPO\, GPO\, Recce O and then\, BK 9 Battery. \nWhile serving with 7th Toronto\, he deployed with the CAF support to flooding in Northern Ontario OP Lentus from April to June 2019 as Officer Commanding A Company\, 32 Brigade. During this command\, 32 Brigade conducted a Relief in Place of Regular Army (2 Brigade led by the 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment)\, and was the largest Reserve relief of Regular army since WW2. \nIn June 2019 Captain Fry attended the Army Tactics and Operations Course\, Tactics School\, Gagetown and\, in September 2019 returned to 11th Field Regiment in Guelph Ontario as the Battle Captain of 29 Battery.As part of the CAF response to the COVID Pandemic\, Captain Fry deployed on OP Laser between April and July 2020 as a Company 2IC and subsequently OC of B Coy\, 31 Territorial Brigade Group. \nCaptain Fry is a graduate of the Canadian Army Command and Staff College (2024) in Kingston Ontario and currently is the Battery Commander for 29 Battery Guelph and\, 16 Battery (the operational field battery). \nCaptain Fry has spent his civilian career in investment banking and commercial real estate and has experience working in Canada\, US\, UK and Europe. \nHonours and Awards: \nCanadian Forces Decoration (CD)\nSpecial Service Medal (SSM)
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-training-the-ukrainian-army-before-russia-attacked/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Historical Reenacting: Why On Earth Do People Do This
DESCRIPTION:Drawing upon his 20+ years of experience as a War of 1812 reenactor\, Tom Fournier will talk about his motivation for being a reenactor.  He will share his memories on the field\, travelling the globe\, meeting royalty\, and even experiencing the paranormal. \nTom started as a lowly private\, not wanting any responsibility as he already managed an intense corporate career. Circumstances prevailed\, however\, and Tom embarked on a steady journey of promotion. He currently serves as the senior commander for all War of 1812 reenactors portraying British or Canadian soldiers in North America. \nTom will use an image rich slide show to support his talk and will also have on hand a number of uniforms\, accoutrements and weapons for examination. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum. Due to technical difficulties\, a recorded conversation is unavailable. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nAbout the Speaker\n \nIn his working life\, after concluding a 30+ year corporate career\, with much of it spent as a national sales manager\, Tom Fourier founded and currently operates two Cambridge-based businesses.\nTom has a passion for history\, particularly the Napoleonic era and the War of 1812. He has written extensively about both\, as well as presenting lectures and participating on podcasts. \nTom also has several volunteer involvements\, including co-chairing history conferences and live stream events with the History Symposium\, a Canadian not-for-profit and charitable organization. Tom was the chair of the popular War of 1812 conference held at the University of Guelph in 2012. He is a member of the White Hackle Council\, the regimental council supporting the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada. He is also involved with promoting history through his volunteer work in War of 1812 reenacting\, where he assumed command as the Brigadier General of the Crown Forces North America in 2024. \nTom’s reenacting career has taken him to events in Canada\, the United States and Europe. \nHe resides in Cambridge\, Ontario.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-historical-reenacting-why-on-earth-do-people-do-this/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250918T190000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Cold War in Canada by Dr. Sara Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Region of Waterloo is home to a Cold War nuclear shelter? Built in 1966 and designed by the same architectural firm responsible for the CN Tower\, the bunker was constructed to ensure the continuity of government in the event of a catastrophic nuclear strike. Join Dr. Sara Matthews for a discussion about how communities imagined nuclear survival and the role of Canadian Cold War propaganda. Together we will explore the visual communication of public safety and consider the question\, “how is citizenship constructed in relation to threat?” \nDoors open at 6:30 pm and the presentation starts at 7:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout the Speaker\n \nDr Sara Matthews is Associate Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Working in the field of critical security studies\, her projects explore the relations between visual culture and martial politics as well as how communities craft creative modes of relationality and survival in response to practices of state securitization.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-cold-war-in-canada-by-dr-sara-matthews/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250320T183000
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SUMMARY:Gunner City: Military Presence in Guelph
DESCRIPTION:Lieutenant-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 every time.  Lt. Col. Ortiz-Sosa will illustrate the history of the 11th Field Regiment which is the institutional representation of the Canadian Armed Forces in the city.  He will illustrate the different operations in which\, through the Canadian Forces\, the citizens of Guelph and Wellington County have defended their nation. He will also touch on the current operations in which our citizens are making significant contributions on behalf of Canada in the international arena. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \nThe lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Lt. Col. Miguel Ortiz-Sosa\n \nLieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa was born in San Salvador\, El Salvador in 1974\, and immigrated to Canada in 1990 after having lived through the end of a military dictatorship and ten years of civil war. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in February 1996 as a Private Recruit with the 7 Toronto Regiment RCA. In 2002\, after being promoted to Master Bombardier\, Lieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. \nIn 2015\, then Captain Ortiz-Sosa received a Unit Commendation in recognition of “outstanding leadership and professionalism in his many roles.” Lieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa served as Battery Commander of 9 and 130 Batteries in Toronto from 2012 to 2016 and again from 2018 to 2020. \nLieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa served as the Second-In-Command of the 56 Field Regiment RCA from 2016 to 2018. As Cadet Liaison Coordinator for the regiment\, he was keen to work with all three batteries in Brantford\, Simcoe and St Catharines\, and with the affiliated Cadet Units in Brantford\, Simcoe\, Fort Erie and Niagara Falls. \nLieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa served as the Deputy Commanding Officer of the 32 CBG Battle School from 2018 to 2020 while working again with the 7 Toronto Regiment RCA. \nLieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa has served as Commanding Officer of the 11th Field Regiment RCA\, with Batteries in Guelph and Hamilton\, since 2020. He is very proud to have served and to continue to serve with all three Artillery Units in South Western Ontario. \nIn civilian life\, Lieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa continues a career in public service with the Ontario government that started in 1998. He is currently employed by the Children\, Youth and Social Services I&IT Cluster in the maintenance and development of computer applications used to deliver social services to Ontarians. Lieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa graduated from Glendon College\, York University with a Combined Honours BA in Political Science and History and from Ryerson University with a Certificate of Economic Analysis. \nLieutenant-Colonel Ortiz-Sosa is the father of four children\, Miguel Andres\, Lauren\, Chantal and Mateo. He has also been a foster parent to over 20 children through the Halton and Hamilton Children’s Aid Societies from 2006 to 2015.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-guelphs-11th-field-regiment/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: A.Y. Jackson\, the Group of Seven and the Great War
DESCRIPTION:Author 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 for overseas service. He enlisted as a private with the 60th Battalion in Montreal in June 1915 and was wounded at the Battle of Mount Sorrel in June 1916. He suffered shell-shock\, and was knocking around camps in England when he was recruited into the Canadian war memorials project as an artist by Lord Beaverbrook in August 1917. Jackson made two trips to the front\, in October 1917 and March 1918\, to produce sketches for canvases he completed at a studio in London\, UK. His letters home illuminate the experience and trauma of war. The challenges of translating the war into oil on canvas had a major impact on his artistic methods and resulted in some of the finest paintings of his career. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \nA.Y Jackson\, the Group of Seven and the Great War is presented by Douglas Hunter. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Douglas Hunter\n \nDouglas Hunter is the author of more than twenty works of non-fiction. He has been a winner and finalist of Canada’s National Business Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize\, the Defoe Book Prize\, and the Wilson Prize in Canadian History. He holds a PhD in history from York University.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-a-y-jackson-the-group-of-seven-and-the-great-war/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: “Borderlines of the Military Masculine Identity”
DESCRIPTION:Aly Firth offers an assessment of transgender roles and crossdressing in performances for the troops during the First World War. \nThe 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 warfare\, gender expression cannot be simplified to a single stereotype\, as the inherent need for morale and patriotism opened a space for men to explore more feminine gender roles that challenged this monolithic model of identity. This talk examines the role patriotism played in defying gendered expectations through drag performance. Stories of queer soldiers’ convictions and performances of ‘patriotic drag’ from the Dumbells showcase how the war blurred the lines of gender roles and sexuality in a period contextualized by a change in stoic Victorian masculinity and coloured by intense emotional experiences. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm and the presentation starts at 7:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \n“Borderlines of the Military Masculine Identity” is presented by Aly Firth. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Aly Firth\n\nAly Firth is a master’s student at Wilfrid Laurier University who earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Wilfrid Laurier University. Their SSHRC-funded research focuses on drag performance\, sexuality\, morality\, and diverse masculinities in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during the First World War. Firth also has significant experience working as an archivist and presenter in museums. Along with their current project\, Firth focuses more widely on queer and disability histories in twentieth-century Canada.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-borderlines-of-the-military-masculine-identity/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241121T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Canadian Army in the Fall of 1944 - Reappraised
DESCRIPTION:Geoff 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 clouded achievements of the Canadians\, but Hayes contends that reports reveal Canadian morale remained remarkably high through this period\, something the Canadian government leveraged to its advantage. \nThe Canadian Army in the Fall of 1944 – Reappraised is presented by Geoff Hayes. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording:\n\nAbout Geoff Hayes\n \nGeoff Hayes is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo where he teaches Canadian and Canadian military history. He is also the editor of Canadian Military History.  His current research centres on the challenge of morale in the wartime Canadian army.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-canadian-army-in-the-fall-of-1944-reappraised/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241103T153000
DTSTAMP:20241112T192624Z
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook
DESCRIPTION:Tim 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.” \nDoors open at 1:00 pm and presentation starts at 2:00 pm\, followed by a question period. \nBooks will be available for purchase\, with a book signing following the presentation. \nThe Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War is presented by Tim Cook. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recordings\n\n\nAbout the Book\nFrom our country’s most important war historian\, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion\, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day. \nWhen the Second World War broke out in 1939\, it set in motion a deadly struggle between the Axis powers and the Allies\, but also fraught negotiations between and among the Allies. On questions of diplomacy\, economic policy\, industrial might\, military capabilities\, and even national sovereignty\, thousands of lives and the fate of the free world depended on back-room deals and desperate trade-offs between soldiers\, diplomats\, and leaders. \nIn North America\, Canada and the US strained to forge a new military alliance to guard their coasts and fend off German U-boats and the menace of a Japanese invasion. Wartime economies were entwined to produce a staggering contribution of weapons to keep Britain and other allies in the war. The defence of North America against enemy threats was essential before the US and Canada could send armies\, navies\, and air forces overseas. \nIn his trademark style\, Tim Cook employs eyewitness accounts to vividly lay bare the brutality of combat and the courage of North Americans under fire. Behind the fighting fronts\, the charged and often secret communications between national leaders Churchill\, Roosevelt\, and King reveal how their personalities shaped the outcome of history’s most destructive war\, the fate of the British Empire\, and the North American alliance that lives on to this day. \nThe Good Allies is a masterful account of how Canadians and Americans made the transition from wary rivals to steadfast allies\, and how Canada thrived in the shadow of the military and global superpower. In exploring this complex and crucial dimension of the Second World War and its legacy\, Cook recounts two nations’ story of cooperation\, of sacrifice\, and of bleeding together to save the world from the fascist threat. \nAbout Tim Cook\n \nTIM COOK is Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. His bestselling books have won multiple awards\, including four Ottawa Book Awards for Literary Non-Fiction and two C.P. Stacey Awards for the best book in Canadian military history. In 2008 he won the J.W. Dafoe Prize for At the Sharp End and again in 2018 for Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. Shock Troops won the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Cook is a frequent commentator in the media\, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-good-allies-how-canada-and-the-united-states-fought-together-to-defeat-fascism-during-the-second-world-war-by-tim-cook/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241017T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Evacuation of the British Airborne from Arhneim 1944 by the 23rd Royal Canadian Engineers
DESCRIPTION:Bill 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. \nAfter 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 side of the river by the 23rd Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers.  Bill will talk about the Canadian effort to evacuate the airborne troops citing his extensive research and interviews with some of the Canadian engineers involved. \nEvacuation of the British Airborne from Arnheim 1944 by the 23rd Royal Canadian Engineers is presented by Bill McVean. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\n\nAbout Bill McVean:\n\nBill McVean was a career railroader\, 21 years as Trainman and Conductor and 21 years as Rail Traffic Controller (dispatcher)\, the entire time a rail historian. Bill’s said at the time\, “until I have walked every old Canadian railbed I have no interesting leaving this country.” \nThat changed in 2007 when Bill accompanied his mother on The Bridge Too Far Battlefield Tour to Arnhem\, in the Netherlands.  Bill Senior was a World War II Tail Gunner with the RCAF and after retirement the McVeans travelled on many battlefield tours.  After her husband’s death Mrs. McVean wanted to return to Arnhem to attend the memorial service in the Oosterbeek Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery\, to see Dutch school children place flowers on all the 1500 graves of Arnhem casualties. \nBill joined an outgrowth of the Arnhem Veterans Club\, called the Arnhem 1944 Fellowship\, which now welcomes interested parties to join Arnhem veterans continuing the legacy. One of the activities of the new group is the annual battlefield walk/talk each September. In 2013\, Bill McVean presented Operation Berlin and the story of the Canadian action in the evacuation of the British 1st Airborne from Arnhem. It was delivered with the Rhine River in the background\, displaying a 1943 Evinrude 50HP Model 8008 Outboard Motor\, the same make\, model and year used by the Canadian Royal Engineers in the action 70 years before.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-evacuation-of-the-market-garden-1944-by-the-23rd-royal-canadian-engineers/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240919T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Endgame: The Secret Force 136 by Catherine Little
DESCRIPTION:Catherine 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. \nDoors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7:00\, followed by a question period. \nEndgame: The Secret Force 136 is presented by Catherine Little. The lecture premiered in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Catherine Little:\n \nCatherine Little is an educator\, consultant and writer living in Toronto\, Ontario. She immigrated to Canada from India when she was a child and started school unable to speak English. Catherine learned quickly and eventually attended university and started her teaching career as a junior high school mathematics and science teacher. During this time\, she started to write textbooks\, work in curriculum consultation and teach in the Faculty of Education at York University. Her writing expanded to included pieces for the Globe and Mail\, Toronto Star and other publications. \nCatherine has a passion for picture books and often used them in the classroom to enhance her mathematics\, science and language lessons. Her books celebrate Chinese culture (Twelve in a Race and Dragon’s Dilemma) and illuminate contributions (Endgame: The Secret Force 136). She wrote Endgame after learning about the Force 136’s existence just a few years ago and envisioned a book that could help more families learn of this little-known chapter in Canadian history. Her books have been reviewed by CanLit for LittleCanadians\, Quill and Quire and featured on CBC book lists. Endgame: The Secret Force 136 was a 2023 pick for one of 11 Canadian books to read for Remembrance Day. \n  \n 
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-endgame-the-secret-force-136-by-catherine-little/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240418T203000
DTSTAMP:20240422T184445Z
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Royal Canadian Air Force at 100: A material retrospective with Mike Bechthold
DESCRIPTION:In 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. Sharpe speaks with four members of the team: Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Brooks\, Chief Warrant Officer Andy Gilpin\, Sergeant Red Gravelle\, and Captain Frank Boucher. The jersey worn by Gravelle in this photo is now in the collection of the National Air Force Museum. \nThe Royal Canadian Air Forces marks a centenary of service this year. This lecture examines the rich history of the air force through the lens of objects selected from the collections of some of the exceptional RCAF museums located across the country. Many of these items appear innocuous at first glance – a wooden spoon\, baby booties\, a plexiglass ring\, and a battered old suitcase – but we will use these objects as a window into the remarkable history of the RCAF. That wooden spoon was carved by the “Savior of Ceylon” while he was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp; the baby booties belonged to one of Canada’s outstanding Battle of Britain pilots; the ring was a gift to a young woman who was on the “front lines” of Canada’s essential role training aircrew in the Second World War; and the suitcase tells the story of a Canadian fighter pilot who disappeared over North Africa\, never to be found. Learn about these untold stories and much more. \nThe Royal Canadian Air Force at 100: A material retrospective is presented by Mike Bechthold. The lecture will premiere in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. Preregistration is not required. The recorded conversation will be available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recordings:\n\n\nAbout Mike Bechthold\nMike Bechthold holds a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales\, Canberra\, Australia and an MA & Honours BA from Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, Canada. Mike is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles. His most recent monograph is Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2017) and he is the co-author of a series of guidebooks about the Canadian battlefields of the Second World War. He specializes in the fields of military air power (especially tactical air operations in the First and Second World Wars)\, the Canadian army in Normandy and Northwest Europe\, and the Canadian Corps in the Great War. \nMike was recently employed as a historian with the Royal Canadian Air Force History and Heritage section. He has taught history at Wilfrid Laurier University\, the University of Waterloo\, Conestoga College\, and the Schulich School of Business at York University. For 22 years Mike worked as the Communications Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and the Managing Editor of Canadian Military History\, an academic quarterly journal. Mike is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK\, a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick\, a Research Fellow at Nipissing University Centre for the Study of War\, Atrocity\, and Genocide\, and he recently served as the Executive Director of the Juno Beach Centre Association. \n 
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-royal-canadian-air-force-at-100-a-material-retrospective-with-mike-bechthold/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240321T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240321T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: "It was hell\, that's all": Artillery and the Senses in the Canadian Corps\, 1914-1918
DESCRIPTION:The First World War on the Western Front was overwhelmingly a war of artillery. Both sides’ firepower dictated what form the war would take\, driving men to dig trenches to conceal and protect themselves\, but even then\, artillery was responsible for over half of Canadian casualties. Given the significance of its role\, it is no surprise that the letters\, diaries and memoirs of soldiers make frequent reference to the unending roar of the guns and the damage wrought by shellfire. \nBut what was it like to fight with the artillery? Though stationed further from the front lines than the infantry\, gunners underwent many of the same experiences and faced many of the same risks. They\, too\, struggled to fight a war against enemies they couldn’t see\, learned how to use sound as a tool for self-preservation and were frequent targets of enemy guns. Despite these commonalities\, however\, the ways in which gunners understood the war and their role within it could vary drastically from their infantry counterparts. Using the senses — namely vision\, hearing and touch — this presentation explores the lives of Canadian gunners and demonstrates the ongoing need to look beyond the trenches in order to better understand the diverse experiences of Canadians fighting the First World War \n“It was hell\, that’s all”: Artillery and Senses in the Canadian Corps\, 1914-1918 is presented by Hazel Scott Pankratz. The lecture will premiere in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. Preregistration is not required. The recorded conversation will be available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Hazel Scott Pankratz\nHazel Scott Pankratz is a PhD candidate in history at Western University\, where her research focuses on the intersection of technology\, the body and lived experience in the Canadian artillery during the First World War. She holds degrees from Trent University and Wilfrid Laurier University.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-it-was-hell-thats-all-artillery-and-the-senses-in-the-canadian-corps-1914-1918/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240215T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Black Military History of Niagara\, "I never knew that"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on military history of Black Canadians from the end of the American Revolution to the present. Doors open at 6:30\, and the presentation starts at 7:00 with a question period immediately following. \nBlack Military History of Niagara\, “I never knew that”\,  is presented by Jim Doherty. The lecture will premiere in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. Preregistration is not required. \nThe recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recordings:\n\n\nAbout Jim Doherty:\nBorn and raised in Thunder Bay Ontario but now residing in Niagara Falls \, Doherty has always had a penchant for studying history especially military history. His grandfather \, Hugh\, served in the Great War and other relatives served in the Second World War with nephews and nieces continuing the tradition. \nBefore coming to Niagara he was involved with the Thunder Bay Military Museum and upon relocating to Niagara in 2003\, he immediately contacted persons who were trying to establish the Niagara Military Museum. The Niagara Military Museum opened its doors in November 2012 with Doherty as Curator. At present he is Curator and President of the Niagara Military Museum \nDoherty retired from Ontario Power Generation in 2009 where he worked as an Environment and Health Technician at the Niagara Plant Group after moving to Niagara from the Northwest Plant Group \n  \n 
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-black-military-history-if-niagara-i-never-knew-that/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island
DESCRIPTION:Learn how a private island on Big Rideau Lake\, Ontario was presented\, experienced\, and embodied as a refuge for youth endangered by or alarmed by war. Between 1917 and 1963\, the island was the summer home of Admiral Charles Kingsmill and his family. During their tenure\, among many things\, they hosted British child evacuees during the Second World War. Afterwards\, for over a decade\, it was home to a Peace Education Institute and hosted programs attended by the children of peace and civil rights activists in which they considered non-violent solutions to Cold War tensions. Drawing on oral histories and archival documents\, the chapter compares youth’s experiences confronting real and imaginary experiences of war\, while living away from home in the Canadian wilderness. \nFrom Wartime Refuge to Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island is presented by Tarah Brookfield.  Preregistration is required to attend in-person. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.  The lecture will premiere both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nImage: Participants in the 1965 Grindstone Experiment gather on the island for a group photograph.\nNANCY POCOCK FONDS\, CLARA THOMAS ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS\, YORK UNIVERSITY \nWatch The Recording:\n\nAbout Tarah Brookfield:\n \nTarah Brookfield is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in History and Youth and Children’s Studies. Her research focuses on histories of women\, childhood\, and war and society in modern Canada. She is the author of several articles and book chapters\, and two books Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women\, Child Safety\, and Global Insecurity (Wilfrid Laurier University Press\, 2012) and Our Voices Must Be Heard” Women and the Vote in Ontario (2018). She is currently working on her third book Experiments in Peace: Families\, Activists\, and State Representatives on Grindstone Island.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-from-wartime-refuge-to-peaceful-hippie-haven-generations-of-youth-on-grindstone-island/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Events,Military Lecture Series,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T203000
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: John Norton - Teyoninhokarawen and the Indigenous Great Lakes 1780s-1820s
DESCRIPTION:John Norton was born to a Cherokee man and a Scottish woman in 1770\, and adopted by the Mohawks in the 1790s. He rose to important military and diplomatic leadership positions among the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) of the Grand River north of Lake Erie\, wrote the most extensive Native-authored text of his generation\, and strove to protect First Nations independence on a changing frontier. In this richly illustrated presentation\, Dr. Carl Benn will explore the life of this important historical figure\, particularly as Norton’s story relates to the Ohio war of the 1790s and the War of 1812. \nJohn Norton – Teyoninhokarawen and the Indigenous Great Lakes 1780s – 1820s is presented by Dr. Carl Benn.  Preregistration is required to attend in-person. You can get your tickets on Eventbrite. The lecture will premiere both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording:\n\nAbout Dr. Carl Benn:\n \nBefore coming to Ryerson (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in 2008\, Dr. Carl Benn worked in the museum field for 34 years\, where he fulfilled senior curatorial and managerial duties\, restored historical properties\, curated exhibits\, and produced other public resources. Carl has published extensively\, including six history books\, the most recent being A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812: John Norton – Teyoninhokarawen. His current book project is a history of the creation of the Royal Ontario Museum. Carl’s teaching at TMU focuses on museum history\, curatorship\, heritage management\, material culture\, and archaeology.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-john-norton-teyoninhokarawen-and-the-indigenous-great-lakes-1780s-1820s/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Spirits\, Psychics\, & Divination: How the Great War Haunted the British Empire
DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the Great War\, people from across the British Isles and Dominion nations read prophecies about the coming new millennium\, experimented with seances\, and claimed to see the ghosts of their loved ones in dreams and in photographs. On the battlefields\, soldiers had premonitions and attributed their survival to angelic\, psychic\, or spiritual forces. These experiences contrast sharply with the legacy of the Great War and modernity in general as a disenchanting experience. What were ghosts and psychics doing amidst a war involving tanks\, airplanes\, submarines\, chemical weapons\, and machine guns? This talk narrates compelling and previously undocumented abnormal experiences to challenge popular myths about the Great War. Between 1914 and 1939 an array of ghosts haunted the British Empire. \nSpirts\, Psychics\, & Divination: How the Great War Haunted the British Empire is presented by Kyle Falcon. The lecture will premier both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch The Recording:\nDue to technical difficulties the October presentation at the Guelph Civic Museum was not able to be uploaded or displayed on the livestream. This recording is from the presentation Kyle Falcon gave at the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada  \n\nAbout Kyle Falcon:\nKyle Falcon is a historian of the British Empire whose research focuses on the role of spiritualism and psychical research during the era of the Great War. He received his MA at Nipissing University and his PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University. His book\, Haunted Britain: Spiritualism\, Psychical Research and the Great War was released by Manchester University Press in July 2023.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-spirits-psychics-divination-how-the-great-war-haunted-the-british-empire/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Battle for Hill 70 with Matthew Barrett
DESCRIPTION:On 15 August 1917\, the Canadian Corps for the first time under the command of General Arthur Currie captured the German strongpoint at Hill 70 near Lens\, France. Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War\, illustrated by Matthew Barrett and co-written with Robert Engen\, depicts this remarkable but costly victory in a unique way. With comic book-style artwork\, the book invites readers to reimagine the First World War through the eyes of the Canadian soldiers who lived it and to think more deeply about how we visualize and narrate the past. By provoking questions about historical accuracy\, truth\, and meaning\, this work focuses on a specific battle of the First World War while also considering the ways history is researched\, shared\, and represented. Combining image and text not only invites readers to consider different ways to interpret history\, it also importantly helps us understand our own role in connecting\, constructing\, and imagining the stories of the past. \nWatch The Recording\n\nAbout Matthew Barrett\n \nMatthew Barrett has a History PhD from Queen’s University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Canadian War Museum in 2021. He published two books in 2022: Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial\, 1914–45 and Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada’s First World War. He is currently managing editor for the journal Canadian Military History. \nMilitary Lectures are offered in partnership with the Laurier Centre for Military\, Strategic and Disarmament Studies.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-battle-for-hill-70-with-matthew-barrett/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Duty\, Honour & Izzat - The Sikh Military Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Banner Image: Indian infantry carrying Maxim Guns under fire\, Great War\, 1918\, Historical Images Archive. \nFrom the Mughal and British Empires\, to the Anglo Sikh Wars\, Great Wars\, the UN\, and beyond\, the Sikhs have a long\, rich\, and colourful military history. Unfortunately\, their contributions have largely been not only forgotten but intentionally kept out of narratives both past and present.  Hear the roar of the Lions of Punjab through a powerful presentation about the military legacy of the Sikh soldier. Bole So Nihal…Sat Sri Akaal! \nDuty\, Honour & Izzat – The Sikh Military Tradition is presented by Pardeep Singh Nagra. The lecture premiered both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation is available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.  \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch the Recording  \n\n\nAbout Pardeep Singh Nagra:\n\n \n\nPardeep Singh Nagra enjoys collecting antique cars and riding motorcycles.  He voluntary serves as director of the Sikh Heritage Museum of Canada where he has hosted the three most recent Canadian Ministers of Defense. He is an award-winning\, avid historian and artefact collector\, including over 2000 Sikh toy soldiers. Pardeep has presented and spoken around the world highlighting the honour\, valour and legacy of the Sikh military tradition including at The Military Museums of Calgary and the Pentagon. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and is committed to reconciliation. \nHis love of sports had led to many interesting athletic accomplishments\, including being a high school tennis champion\, elite ball hockey player\, qualifying for the Boston Marathon\, and being a national level boxer for which a Hollywood movie (Tiger) was produced based on his journey.  His work and service has been recognized and valued as he is the recipient of the YMCA Canada Peace Medal\, University of Toronto Arbor Award\, Region of Peel Chair’s Award for Community Service\, Auxiliary Constable of the Year with Peel Regional Police\, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-duty-honour-izzat-the-sikh-military-tradition/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: We Both Survived - The Soldier-Horse Relationship in the First World War
DESCRIPTION:Banner image: “Vimy” and its Mother. The foal was born on the height from which it takes its name. (20th Bty.\, C.F.A.)  \nHorses and mules were essential to the ability of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces to operate in the First World War. Equines hauled supplies\, ammunition\, artillery\, as well as acted as cavalry. Working alongside each other across the Western Front\, soldiers developed relationships with their equine charges. Emily Oakes’ presentation will examine how the soldier-horse relationship functioned in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces and its effects on the soldiers\, such as J.E.B. Seely or John McCrae\, who wrote about their bonds with their horses. \n\n“We Both Survived”: The Soldier-Horse Relationship in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces During the First World War takes place Thursday\, March 23\, 2023 at 7 pm. The lecture premieres both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation will be available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal after the event. *Due to technical difficulties\, posting of the recording of this lecture has been delayed. We hope to have it available soon.” \nTo attend the conversation in-person\, registration is required through Eventbrite. \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nWatch the Recording:  \n\n\n\nAbout Emily Oakes:\nEmily is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focusses on the historical relationships between humans and horses in Canadian society. She is also interested in Canadian military history\, having written her MA major research paper on the soldier-horse relationship in the First World War. Emily is archives manager at the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-we-both-survived-the-soldier-horse-relationship-in-the-first-world-war/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Canadians in the Turkish War of Independence\, 1919-1922
DESCRIPTION: Banner image: Evren Altinkas \n\nWatch the recording.\nDonations will be collected at this event for the Canadian Red Cross Earthquake in Turkiye and Syria appeal.\nAt the end of the First World War\, as a result of the Mudros Armistice\, the Ottoman State was occupied by Allies. British\, French\, Italian and Greek forces occupied some strategic locations and cities within Turkey.  By May 1919\, the Turkish War of Independence started under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Anatolia. \nBritish forces were composed of soldiers and military officers from the Dominions\, including Canada. During the Turkish War of Independence\, a few Canadian military personnel served for Britain in Turkey. This talk will focus on some of those Canadian military personnel and their roles in the Turkish War of Independence. \n“Canadians and the Turkish War of Independence\, 1919-1922” is presented by Evren Altinkas.  The lecture premieres both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation will be available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal after the event. \nTo attend the conversation in-person\, registration is required through Eventbrite. \nGuelph Museums Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \nRobert Frew\, one of the Canadians active in Turkey during the Turkish War of Independence \n\nAbout Evren Altinkas:\nEvren Altinkas received postgraduate degrees from King’s College London in 2000 and from Dokuz Eylul University in 2003. He obtained his doctoral degree from Dokuz Eylul University in 2011 based on his dissertation comparing the development of the concept of intellectuals in Europe and in Ottoman State/Turkey. Since July 2018\, Altinkas is affiliated with the Department of History\, University of Guelph. His research areas are the History of the Middle East\, Turkish History\, Intellectual History and the Transformation from Ottoman Empire to Modern Middle East and Turkey. He received the Chevening Scholarship for the academic year of 1999-2000\, and was a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Altinkas is an editor of H-TURK. Dr. Altinkas has several academic articles and book chapters published and has 3 articles about the Turkish War of Independence and the Unionist connection in publication progress as of January 2023.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-canadians-in-the-turkish-war-of-independence-1919-1922/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Men and Morale - Canadian Army Training in the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:Banner Image: Soldiers attending a field lecture in Vernon\, BC\, Canada\, ca. 1940. (Museum and Archives of\nVernon\, #9678) \nWatch the recording.\nThe Canadian Army of the Second World War spent more time preparing and training their citizen soldiers then they did in sustained action. This chiefly took place across Canada and in the United Kingdom. Adequate training functioned as a cradle for collective action\, morale\, empowerment\, self-confidence\, and\, ultimately\, success in battle. Yet\, due to a number of factors\, a sufficient standard of training was not always achieved by all. \nThere were limits to the Canadian Army’s ability to control the morale of its men as it created a vast organization from scratch. Training camp experiences varied\, influenced by factors such as food\, weather\, comfort\, group cohesion\, leadership\, skill level\, discipline\, social activities\, and interactions with local civilians. In fact\, it required a constant negotiation between camp leadership and the rank and file. Drawing from her research on both the Canadian and wider Commonwealth armies\, Megan Hamilton’s presentation will explain why soldiers’ morale in training was a difficult\, yet vital\, balancing act. \n“Men and Morale – Canadian Army Training in the Second World War” takes place Thursday\, January 19\, 2023 at 7 pm. The lecture premieres both in-person at the Civic Museum\, and online via our Facebook livestream. The recorded conversation will be available on Facebook\, YouTube\, and our Museum Everywhere Portal after the event. \nTo attend the conversation in-person\, registration is required through Eventbrite. \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \n\nAbout Megan Hamilton:\n \nOriginally from Vernon\, British Columbia\, Megan Hamilton is a social and military historian of the 20th century. She has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo. Her federally-funded master’s research focused on the Canadian experience of the Second World War\, specifically the Vernon Military Camp. Megan’s work has been published by a number of platforms and in 2022 she won the Tri-University History Program’s top essay prize for master’s students. \nShe is currently located in London\, England\, where she has begun a fully-funded PhD at King’s College London and the Imperial War Museum\, supervised by Dr. Jonathan Fennell. Her dissertation is a study of Second World War army training across the Commonwealth.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-men-and-morale-canadian-army-training-in-the-second-world-war/
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Evolution of Canadian Export Policy\, 1946-1991
DESCRIPTION:“Things that go ‘Krump’ in the Night”: The Evolution of Canadian Export Policy\, 1946-1991 is presented by Paul Esau. \nFor more than three decades\, successive Canadian governments have tied themselves in knots to justify the sale of Canadian-produced weapons to Saudi Arabia. Yet the Saudi sales are only the latest chapter in a history of arms sales to conflict regions which extends back to the Second World War\, and includes customers from all over the world. These sales have contradicted both Canada’s foreign policy in general\, as well as the specific military export restrictions which are supposed to constrain Canadian arms sales to certain destinations. \nFrom a historical perspective this hypocrisy is the norm\, rather than the exception. For nearly 80 years the Canadian government has been attempting to decide what can be sold to whom\, and why – while constantly revising its decision to allow for the next lucrative arms sale. Still\, how does a country which has consistently committed to upholding democracy\, human rights and peacekeeping also justify consistently selling weapons to undemocratic and repressive regimes in conflict regions? The answer reveals a remarkable story of creative policy-making\, bureaucratic bumbling\, cultivated innocence\, and occasional scandal. \nCanadian-made LAVs being transported along the 401 highway in Ontario (c. 2019). Photo courtesy of Dr. Kevin Spooner. \n\nAbout Paul Esau: \nPaul Esau is a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University in the History Department. He has interned with several Canadian peace and disarmament organizations\, including Project Ploughshares and the Canadian Landmines Foundation\, and teaches classes on nuclear\, chemical\, biological\, and conventional arms control. He lives in Kitchener with his wife\, Heidi\, and their hedgehog Juniper. \n\nMiss the live event? Watch a recording of the Military Lecture via our YouTube channel: \n\nLecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/the-evolution-of-canadian-export-policy-1946-1991/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Missing Memorials? How Canada has Commemorated the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:Banner image: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth unveiling the National War Memorial in Ottawa\, May 22\, 1939. Toronto Star Photograph Archive\, TSPA_0122512F. \nThe war memorials that dot communities across the country are the sites of the most important public ceremonies of the civic calendar. They hearken back to our history\, they help us remember our war dead\, and they help us envision the future. But they have histories of their own.  \nThis talk by Thomas Littlewood presents new research which reconsiders our understandings of these memorials\, when they were built\, and what they mean. \n\nAbout Thomas Littlewood:\nThomas Littlewood is a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph. His research considers how Canada has commemorated the Second World War. Originally from New Brunswick\, Thomas is interested in how local communities engage with their pasts—this includes commemoration\, museums\, and memory. He has degrees from Mount Allison University\, the University of New Brunswick\, and Western University. \n \nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada. \n \n  \n\nMissed the live event? Watch the recording of the lecture via our YouTube channel:
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-missing-memorials-second-world-war/
LOCATION:Guelph Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220923
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: The Irish Canadian Rangers in Canada and Ireland\, 1915 -1917
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Canadian Rangers began as a Militia Regiment in 1915 after Catholic and Protestant Irish agreed to cooperate. After the battle of Second Ypres the regiment contributed a full company to the 60th Battalion and began a campaign to persuade Sam Hughes to promise that an Irish Canadian Rangers battalion would go overseas as the 199th under its own officers. Recruiting began in 1916 and continued despite the Easter Rebellion in Dublin and the growing turmoil in Ireland. The 199th struggled to reach full strength but responded favorably to a British request to tour Ireland before joining the 5th Canadian Division. \nDrawing upon research for his recent book Montreal At War 1914-1918\, Terry Copp examines both Irish and Canadian history in this dramatic\, formative period. \n \n\nAbout Terry Copp:\n \nTerry Copp is the leading scholar of Canada’s military role in the Second World War and an influential advocate for military history in both military and civilian post-secondary education. His books on battle exhaustion\, on 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade\, and his two volumes on the Canadians in Normandy and Northwest Europe\, Fields of Fire (2003) and Cinderella Army (2006) have led to a reinterpretation of Canadian soldiers’ effectiveness in 1944 and 1945. He was also the onscreen historian for the television series No Price Too High and a regular contributor to Legion Magazine. \nTerry has explored Canada’s European battlefields for more than thirty years with hundreds of students and members of the public. This interest in the battlefields of northwest Europe has led to the creation of battlefield memorials and the publication of a series of battlefield guidebooks. Terry is a dual Canadian and Irish citizen and has a long-standing interest in Irish history and connections with Canada \nTerry’s most recent project is Montreal at War 1914-18\, available now from the University of Toronto Press. \n\nMissed the live event? Watch the recording of the lecture via our YouTube channel: \n\nGuelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-the-irish-canadian-rangers-in-canada-and-ireland-1915-1917/
LOCATION:Civic Museum\, 52 Norfolk Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 4H8\, Canada
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220415
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Heritage\, Meaning\, and Remembering Well in 21st Century Canada
DESCRIPTION:Tune in for “The torch; be yours to hold it high”: Heritage\, Meaning\, and Remembering Well in 21st Century Canada\, presented by Dr. Geoffrey Bird on Thursday April 14th\, 2022 at 7 pm. \nInterpreting John McCrae’s immortal poem\, In Flanders Fields\, as a call to action to remember is particularly prescient in our world today. But in the context of commemoration and remembrance of the world wars\, what should holding the torch high look\, and feel\, like? Is there a good or preferred way to remember? \nThis presentation explores the idea of remembering well\, both in the role played by various forms of war heritage—from sites\, artefacts and art\, to rituals and traditions of commemoration—and the meanings we construct from them. Our attention will involve considering the experience of visiting iconic Canadian sites such as Ypres\, Vimy\, and Normandy as well as lesser-known sites across Canada and elsewhere. Of particular interest to this interdisciplinary discussion is to explore concepts such as sense of place associated with sites of war memory\, and the extent to which they are managed\, as well as the significance of storytellers as guardians of remembrance. \n\nAbout Dr. Geoffrey Bird:\n \nDr. Geoffrey Bird\, PhD\, is a Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University\, Victoria\, BC. Geoffrey created the War Heritage Research Initiative in 2015 and has produced over 30 short documentary films exploring Canada’s world war heritage from the world wars.  His doctoral research focused on the battlefields of Normandy and the role played by tourism in remembrance. Geoff has consulted for agencies such as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Education First Tours in their design of the Vimy 100 Education Expo in Arras\, France. \nPrior to RRU\, Geoff’s career involved serving as a naval reserve officer\, with the provincial government in the field of post-secondary education\, and leading a community development project in Vietnam while at Capilano University.  He also worked as a heritage interpreter at the Canadian National Memorial at Vimy Ridge. One other significant experience: Geoff volunteered at McCrae House while attending University in Guelph! He has lived and worked in Southeast Asia\, Africa\, Europe and across Canada\, and calls Victoria home. \n\nMissed the live event? Watch the recording of Heritage\, Meaning\, and Remembering Well in 21st Century Canada below: \n\nOffered in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Civilians at the Sharp End - First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe\, 1944-1945
DESCRIPTION:Image: British soldier helping an elderly woman in Caen\, France\, July 1944\, World War II \nTune in for Civilians at the Sharp End – First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe\, 1944-1945 presented by David Borys on Thursday March 17th\, 2022 at 7 pm. \nCivil Affairs is the forgotten branch of First Canadian Army (FCA) in the Second World War. The men of Civil Affairs (CA) were a crucial link between the army and the civilian populations that were both liberated and occupied by FCA. From control of refugees\, to reestablishing law and order\, to organizing civil defence\, to the recovery of lost and stolen art as well as an entire spectrum of activities\, FCA Civil Affairs handled a wide variety of tasks and met challenges in every new region they entered. \nIn this talk David Borys will touch on some of those key challenges as the men of FCA Civil Affairs worked their way across northwest Europe from northern France all the way into northwestern Germany. \n\nAbout David Borys:\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nDavid Borys is a Canadian military historian and a faculty member at Langara College. His research focuses on the history of the relationship between the Canadian Armed Forces and civilian populations in combat zones. His published works include a wide variety of topics in the realm of Canadian military history and have been printed in academic journals such as Canadian Military History Journal and in print media such as the Globe and Mail. \nHis most recent book is titled Civilians at the Sharp End: First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe\, 1944-1945 published by McGill-Queens Press in 2021. He has been seen on such television history programs as APTN’s Nations at War and National Geographic’s Hitler’s Last Stand. David is also the producer\, writer and host of the popular Canadian history podcast\, Cool Canadian History. \n\nMissed the live event? Watch the recording of Civilians at the Sharp End below:
URL:https://guelphmuseums.ca/event/military-lecture-civilians-at-the-sharp-end-first-canadian-army-civil-affairs-in-northwest-europe-1944-1945/
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SUMMARY:Military Lecture: Atomic Soldiers - The Canadian Armed Services and Radiation Exposure during the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Banner Image: April 1935\, W.L. Britnell and Stan McMillan unload the first shipment of uranium concentrate from the Northwest Territories. Source: opentextbc.ca\, Canadian History: Post-Confederation by John Douglas Belshaw \nMilitary Lecture: Atomic Soldiers – The Canadian Armed Services and Radiation Exposure during the Cold War is presented by Dr. Matthew Wiseman. \nDuring the early Cold War period\, the United States and the United Kingdom conducted various nuclear weapons trials with live radiation\, but little is known of Canada’s participation. In this talk\, Dr. Matthew Wiseman will discuss the history of No. 1 Radiation Detection Unit (RDU)\, a special tri-service unit established in 1950 to assess radiological hazards for the Canadian military. \nOperational between 1950 and 1959\, RDU personnel participated in live trials and assessed nuclear toxicity at blast sites in the United States and Australia.  Recently opened records suggest that senior officials in the Canadian Army exposed unit personnel to hazardous conditions during trials\, resulting in direct exposures to dangerously high radiation levels. Dr. Wiseman will explore and discuss the military and ethical considerations of using soldiers during live nuclear weapons trials\, as well as the continuing impact on the participating soldiers and their families. \n\nAbout Matthew Wiseman:\n \nDr. Matthew Wiseman is a Banting Fellow in the Department of History at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on the history of science and technology in modern Canada. With an eye to understanding the social impacts of scientific research and technological development\, his published work examines the political and ethical dimensions of state-sponsored research conducted at government\, private\, and academic institutions. He also studies the history of Canada’s National Research Council and the role of gender in the development and progression of the natural sciences. \nWiseman holds a Ph.D. in History from Wilfrid Laurier University and the Tri-University Graduate Program in History. Upon the completion of his doctoral degree\, he held a two-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and later a one-year Associated Medical Services (AMS) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History at Western University. \n\nMissed the live event? Watch the recording of Atomic Soldiers below:
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