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Watch Now: Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada: R v. R.D.S.

This talk explores R v. RDS twenty years after this landmark legal case in Canada. A number of legal scholars and historians of Black Canadian history and Black Canadian legal history have taken the opportunity presented by this anniversary to reflect upon its...

Off the Cuff, with Alicia Koepke

Alicia Koepke is a fourth-year History and Medieval & Medievalism Studies major with a minor in English hoping to do an MA in history in the future. She has worked as a Copp Scholar student research assistant at LCSC since October 2022, and has enjoyed learning a...

Watch Now: Charter Rights and the Encampment Ruling

In the first ruling of its kind in Ontario, on 27 January 2023 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that the Region of Waterloo’s attempt to evict encampment residents at 100 Victoria St. N was a violation of Charter rights (CV-22-717). Moderated by Laura Pin,...

Off the Cuff, with Alyssa Firth

Alyssa Firth is a third-year Honours History major and a Copp Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Canada working as a research assistant for Tim Cook. Along with their work at LCSC Alyssa is currently the co-President of the History Students’ Association, where...

Off the Cuff, with Callie Hernandez

Callie Hernandez is a fourth-year history major with a double minor in North American Studies and Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Laurier’s Waterloo campus. Callie is passionate about Canadian history and the preservation and conservation of heritage sites and...

Watch Now: Battle of the Atlantic with Ted Barris

In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took 2,074 days and nights to determine its outcome, but the Battle of the Atlantic proved the turning point of the Second World War. For five and a half...

Eyewitness Canada: Armed Convoy Security, West Germany, 1977

Eyewitness Canada explores the firsthand accounts of Canadians whose perspectives were shaped by historical experience. Public and academic historians present untold stories, inviting readers to reflect on how the lessons and challenges of the past shaped the present...

Apply now for 2023 Battlefield Study Tours!

Student Battlefield Study Tour, 26 May - 12 June 2023 Are you an outstanding graduate student, undergraduate, or very recent graduate from a Canadian university who wants to understand the role Canadians played in the liberation of Europe in the World Wars? This year...

Call for Papers: 33rd Canadian Military History Colloquium

New Articles are Available from Canadian Military History

Vol. 31, No. 2 Summer / Autumn 2022Pursuit to Valenciennes 1918 The Fate of Soldiers at the Point of Capture BRIAN PASCAS Abstract: This article tracks the Canadian Corps’ pursuit of the retreating German army in the last weeks of the First World War. As French...

Watch Now: Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada: R v. R.D.S.

Off the Cuff, with Alicia Koepke

Watch Now: Charter Rights and the Encampment Ruling

Off the Cuff, with Alyssa Firth

Off the Cuff, with Callie Hernandez

Watch Now: Battle of the Atlantic with Ted Barris

Eyewitness Canada: Armed Convoy Security, West Germany, 1977

Apply now for 2023 Battlefield Study Tours!

Call for Papers: 33rd Canadian Military History Colloquium

New Articles are Available from Canadian Military History

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