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 [...]
My father called me right after Sidney Crosby scored the goal that won the gold medal for Canada. Both of us having been born and raised in Pittsburgh we were thrilled for Crosby, but my father was upset that the [...]
After centuries of understanding war according to its Clausewitzean definition i.e. pitting states against states for a definable political end – thus leaving all non-state actors outside the scope of war – the decolonization wars, and more so even the [...]
Why are there no Canadian air power thinkers and writers? For a nation that has such a rich military and civilian aviation history this may seem surprising. In a recent issue of the Canadian Air Force Journal Australian scholar Aaron P. Jackson [...]
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