Wednesday Video – Aboriginal Soldiers
This contemporary examination touches upon the history of Aboriginal service in Canada’s armed forces, exploring the possible reasons for Aboriginals’ underrepresentation in the Canadian military.
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Wednesday Video – Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands
A news report follows Anna Maria Zeeman, a 17-year old during the liberation of the Netherlands in May 1945. She describes the excitement and overwhelming feelings after being relieved from five years of Nazi oppression, and the unwavering appreciation the [...]
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Wednesday Video – Reflections of Pearl Harbor
In preparation for Lieutenant-Colonel Angelo N. Caravaggio’s lecture on the original plan behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, this clip combines war footage, propaganda and veteran interviews to explain “a date which will live in infamy.”
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Video of David Patterson on his experience in Afghanistan
Inside the Surge: A Canadian’s Perspective on Transition in Afghanistan Colonel David Patterson will describe his experience in Kandahar as a senior member of the 10th Mountain Division staff at Regional Command – South during a critical time for the [...]
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Wednesday Video – A Visit to the Abbaye d’Ardenne
A modern visit to the Abbaye d’Ardenne near Caen, France, where 20 Canadian prisoners of war were executed by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division in June 1944. The discovery of this “killing field” prompted one of the first war crimes [...]
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Wednesday Video – Siân Price “If You’re reading This: Last Letters From the Front”
A fascinating look by Sian Price on at letters from the front. The collection features 70 letters chosen from more than 30 000 letters she read in more than 10 different countries including Canada, the US, Britain, Australia, Wales and [...]
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Wednesday Video – 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan
In Honour of David Patterson’s talk tomorrow night (the First of the 2012 Winter lecture Series) our first Wednesday Video is a clip of 10th Mountain Division (in 2009) from the New York Times in depth look at the US in Afghanistan ”A [...]
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David Hall- Germans at Dieppe – 2011
David Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, United Kingdom. He has a D.Phil. in modern history from the University of Oxford, and he [...]
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Terry Copp – The War of 1812: Harper and the Battle for Memory – 2011
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Heritage Minister James Moore are promoting plans to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 as an “expression of a clear full Canadian identity.” Terry Copp, who is currently teaching a War and [...]
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