Category: Events
Watch Now: The Domestication of Human Trafficking with Katrin Roots
Human trafficking is an issue that has garnered significant attention in Canada and globally, following the enactment of the United Nations’ Trafficking Protocol in 2002. Expansive laws, policies and mandates against trafficking were put into place following Canada’s...
Watch Now: The Irish Canadian Rangers with Terry Copp
The Irish Canadian Rangers began as a Militia Regiment in 1915 after Catholic and Protestant Irish agreed to cooperate. After the battle of Second Ypres, the regiment contributed a full company to the 60th Battalion and began a campaign to persuade Sam Hughes to...
Watch Now: To Help Win the Fight with Stacey Barker
The Second World War brought many crucial changes to the lives of Canadian women, including the opportunity for wider military service. Recruits who joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, the Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division, and the Women’s Royal Canadian...
Watch Now: Dieppe 80 Years After with Marie Eve Vaillancourt
The Dieppe Raid is shrouded in controversy and tragedy. For decades, it dominated Canadians’ collective memory of the war. Considered a tragic failure since 1942, its story is as complex as it is nuanced. The presentation will explore the challenges of putting...
Watch Now: Fighting a White Man’s War with Scott Sheffield
The Second World War became a total war for Canada, drawing in virtually every person in virtually every region of the country in diverse ways, including Canada’s First Nations population. As wards of the state, this was not Status Indians’ war to fight, and yet more...
Watch Now: Per Ardua Ad Astra with Mike Bechthold
In a few short years, the Royal Canadian Air Force expanded from a small domestic force of 8 squadrons and 4,000 personnel to a globe-spanning air force with 80 operational squadrons and 250,000 personnel (including 17,000 women). The RCAF defended London, led the...
Watch Now: Ne-kah-ne-tah with Anna Pearson, Stephen Connor and Robert Catsburg
Over five days in November 1944, the Algonquin Regiment played a pivotal role in the capture of the tiny Dutch town of Welberg. In 2018, twenty Canadian university students returned to the site as part of an experiential learning course focused on the Regiment’s...
Watch Now: Canada and the Second World War at Sea with Jeff Noakes
Active on many fronts during the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Navy played its best-known and arguably most crucial role in helping to keep Allied shipping lanes open in the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Canadian merchant ships and merchant sailors transported vital...
Register now for the 32nd Canadian Military History Colloquium!
33rd Canadian Military History ColloquiumHosted by the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, the 33rd Canadian Military History Colloquium will be held at Wilfrid Laurier University on 26-27 May 2023.This page will be updated frequently. Last update: 22 December...