Since I recently completed my comprehensive exams, this list is best viewed as an amalgam of favourites from my fields and books that mesh with my particular research interests. A minor disclaimer: My attempt at witty commentary may make it [...]
As I am faced with my second Christmas as a PhD candidate, I began to be haunted by the realization that my holiday reading list will be forever filled with histories that I do not have time to read during [...]
We often get asked at the LCMSDS about what we’re reading. This year we have decided to get some of the staff at the LCMSDS to put together a list of their recommendations. In the name of transparency, The centre [...]
Often I go to Ottawa to research at Library Archives Canada (aptly turned into the acronym LAC, as in lack of organization, lack of lighting, lack of help, etc.) and I stay with my brother, Richard, who works there as [...]
On a normal day at LCMSDS I encounter beach obstacles, tank tracks, hundreds of different craters and cities rendered unrecognizable by bombing runs, all from 20,000 feet or higher. I am referring to the current project I head to digitize [...]
Most viewers of Don Cherry’s Coaches Corner know that for the past several years Don has devoted numerous segments to supporting, and mourning, our Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. This past Saturday I watched with particular interest because it was his [...]
In the 1960s, arms control emerged as a major issue in international politics. The world had come perilously close to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the search for ways to avoid another brush with Armageddon was on. [...]
I first became intrigued with the concept of nose art when the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s B-25 Mitchell bomber “Grumpy” visited my hometown of Windsor, Ontario, about eight years ago for an air show. Like you may expect, her name [...]
The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies has an extraordinary collection of aerial reconnaissance photographs from the Second World War. We have used these photos extensively in our various publications over the years but we keep making discoveries. [...]
Across the street from the main entrance of Wilfrid Laurier University there is a small parkette with a modern, albeit modest memorial to Canadian veterans. The parkette also includes several information panels outlining the history of the surrounding neighbourhood that [...]
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