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Military Lecture: The Evolution of Canadian Export Policy, 1946-1991

Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

For 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.

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Call & Response: Querying the Collection

Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Using a community-curation and crowd-sourcing framework, Guelph Museums’ invited members, volunteers, and staff to select an item from the museum’s collection for display. The exhibition, Call & Response: Querying the Collection, highlights what they are most interested in and why.

History Bites: Guelph Pipe Band at 100 Years

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The Guelph Pipe Band celebrates 100 years of continuous activity in 2022! Join Guelph Museums Curator Dawn Owen as she chats with members of the Guelph Pipe Band about their past, present, and future in Guelph, ON and beyond.

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It Happened Here: Royal Opera House to the River Run Theatre

Banner Image: Royal Opera House Performance, c. 1899. 2009.32.1893, Guelph Museums  In this episode of It Happened Here, Education Coordinator Ken Irvine shines a spotlight on the stages and screens of Guelph, past and present. This episode premiered on Feburary 2, 2023 on YouTube. Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/KIdj54BVO48

Military Lecture: Canadians in the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-1922

Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

At 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 have 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.

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Military Lecture: We Both Survived – The Soldier-Horse Relationship in the First World War

Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Horses 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.

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