Speaker: Roger Sarty This event is part of the Military Lecture Series hosted by Guelph Museums. Catastrophe – Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion will be presented by Roger Sarty, Editor of the recovered book manuscript of ‘Catastrophe’ by the late Professor T. Joseph Scanlon. The Halifax explosion, 6 December 1917, was the […]
Speaker: Matthew Wiseman This event is part of the Military Lecture Series hosted by Guelph Museums. Military Lecture: Atomic Soldiers – The Canadian Armed Services and Radiation Exposure during the Cold War is presented by Dr. Matthew Wiseman. Operational between 1950 and 1959, RDU personnel participated in live trials and assessed nuclear toxicity at […]
Speaker: David Borys This event is part of the Military Lecture Series hosted by Guelph Museums. Tune in for Civilians at the Sharp End – First Canadian Army Civil Affairs in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945 presented by David Borys on Thursday March 17th, 2022 at 7 pm. In this talk David Borys will touch on some […]
Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Bird This event is part of the Military Lecture Series hosted by Guelph Museums. Tune in for “The torch; be yours to hold it high”: Heritage, Meaning, and Remembering Well in 21st Century Canada, presented by Dr. Geoffrey Bird on Thursday April 14th, 2022 at 7 pm. Interpreting John McCrae’s immortal poem, In Flanders Fields, as […]
Terry Copp Speaker: Terry Copp CLICK HERE to register for the event. 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 […]
The war memorials that dot communities across the country are the sites of the most important public ceremonies of the civic calendar. They hearken back to our history, they help us remember our war dead, and they help us envision the future. But they have histories of their own. This talk by Thomas Littlewood presents […]
Speaker: Paul Esau CLICK HERE to register for the event. For more than three decades, successive Canadian governments have tied themselves in knots to justify the sale of Canadian-produced weapons to Saudi Arabia. Yet the Saudi sales are only the latest chapter in a history of arms sales to conflict regions which extends back to […]
CLICK HERE to register for the event. Speaker: Megan Hamilton The Canadian Army of the Second World War spent more time preparing and training their citizen soldiers then they did in sustained action. This chiefly took place across Canada and in the United Kingdom. Adequate training functioned as a cradle for collective action, morale, […]
CLICK HERE to register for the event. Speaker: Evren Altinkas Robert Frew, one of the Canadians active in Turkey during the Turkish War of Independence At the end of the First World War, as a result of the Mudros Armistice, the Ottoman State was occupied by Allies. British, French, Italian and Greek forces […]
“Vimy” and its Mother. The foal was born on the height from which it takes its name. July, 1917. Horses and mules were essential to the ability of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces to operate in the First World War. Equines hauled supplies, ammunition, artillery, as well as acted as cavalry. Working alongside each other across […]