If You’re Reading This – Last Letters from the Front Line is a book that had its origins in a BBC radio documentary I produced more than three years ago. Working with a colleague called Siobhan McClelland, whose uncle had [...]
Internet auction sites. We all know them and many of us either love or despise their existence. Yet whatever one’s personal feelings towards the sale of personal artifacts on the internet, there is no denying the fact that these larger [...]
Vincent T (Picton, Ontario) Juno Beach Centre Guide fall 2011 Today, many Canadians flock to the centre to pay their respects, to show their love, and to remember the ultimate sacrifice made by so many in order to guarantee that today, [...]
By 1960, the Korean War was only seven years in the past. It was closer to us then, than our arrival in Afghanistan is to us now. Yet to me, at 18 in 1960, those seven years might as well [...]
On 16 March, 2011 Vancouver Canucks face-off specialist Manny Malhotra was hit in the left eye by a puck during a game against the Colorado Avalanche. The resulting injury was considered very serious by many observers, with some believing it [...]
In the winter of 2010, I was working as the Librarian and Archivist at LCMSDS and completing a dissertation under Geoff Hayes at the University of Waterloo. As I entered into the final stages of the PhD process, the question [...]
In early 2010, the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies released the war diary of Alain Gaudet, aCanadian peacekeeper serving in Cyprus during 1974. The diary followed Gaudet and the rest of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, as they [...]
With an incredible journey covering the monuments, cemeteries, and battlefields of the First World War behind us, our group of 21 looked forward to walking in the footsteps of the Canadians who served during the Second World War. Our first [...]
The war and memory course has just finished the battlefields of the First World War and after spending a night 20km’s from the beaches of Normandy, the enormity of both wars has set in. Here is an account from Carla-Jean Stokes, [...]
Voyage francophone sur les champs de batailles 2010: Fondation HISTORICA-DOMINION Faire revivre l’histoire militaire canadienne des deux conflits mondiaux à des professeurs d’histoire de niveau secondaire. Tel était le défi de cette édition 2010 du voyage francophone organisé par la Fondation [...]
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