FRIDAY 9 MAY

10:30 – 12:00 | Session 2

2A | First World War Narrative Reconsidered

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Brittany Dunn, Canadian Army Heritage

• Battling Germans and Appendicitis in Bucharest: The First World War Experience of Frederick Stanley Mills and Howard Vincent Reid | Adam Coombs, Directorate of History and Heritage
• Capturing Black Trench: A Detailed Re-Assessment of the 11th Brigade at Vimy Ridge, 9 April 1917 | Melissa Davidson, Directorate of History and Heritage
• A Ceylonese Soldier on the Vimy Memorial: Researching Ceylonese War Dead From the First World War | Alexandra McKinnon, Directorate of History and Heritage

2B: Canada’s Munitions Industry during the Second World War

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Alex Souchen, University of Guelph

• L’Arsenal fédéral: An Overview of the Department of Munitions and Supply and the Chemicals and Explosives Production Branch, 1939-1945 | Ethan M. Coudenys, University of Guelph
• On the Factory Floor: Women Workers and Munitions Production during the Second World War | Colton Enslen, University of Guelph
• Navigating the Hazards of Canada’s Second World War Munitions Factories | Bram Fookes, University of Guelph

1:00 – 2:30 | Session 3

3A | Canada and Cold War Asia

Senate & Board Chamber

• ‘Corner shops in Seoul’: Soldier Photography and Market Economies in the Korean War | Sarah Hart, Carleton University
• Between Frustration and Success: Canadian Military and the International Commission for Control and Surveillance in Vietnam, 1973 | Jean-Michel Turcotte, Directorate of History and Heritage

3B: The Ways We Commemorate

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Eric Story, Western University

• Honouring the Eight WWI Heroes of North Toronto Collegiate: A Tribute to Their Legacy | Benjamin Keevil, Friends of the CEF 58th Battalion and NTCI
• The Cause for Remembrance | Mark Carmichael, Central Ontario Branch, Western Front Association
• Interpreting Triggers: War Trophies and Their Place in Canadian Museums | Ryan Goldsworthy

2:45 – 3:45 | Session 4

4A | Facing the Soviets

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Richard Goette, Canadian Forces College

• From Varsity to Wismar: 1 Can Para and the Race to the Baltic | Norma Graham, Independent Researcher
• Yellowjack 1956: Secrets and Significance of the 61 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron | Andrea Taylor, Independent Researcher

4B | Canadians in Another Uniform

DAWB 1-101A 3-103 | Chair: Alexandra McKinnon, Directorate of History and Heritage

• Canadians in the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922) | Evren Altinkas, University of Guelph
• Serving the Greater Good: PPCLI University Company Men in British Service, 1915 – 1919 | Craig Leslie Mantle, Canadian Forces College

5:00 – 6:00 | Keynote Address

Senate & Board Chamber

Beyond Frustration? Historians and the Access to Information Act | Timothy Andrews Sayle, University of Toronto

Saturday 10 May

8:30 – 10:00 | Session 5

5A | The Canadian Military in the Cold War Era

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Matthew Barrett, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada

• An Interrogation of the Idea of a “Golden Age” in Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy in the 1950s | Matthew Trudgen, Independent Scholar
• Training Command: Example of the Failure of Canadian Forces Unification or a Missed Opportunity? | Richard Goette, Canadian Forces College
• Enemy of the Canadian Armed Forces? Re-assessing Pierre Trudeau’s Negative Military Legacy in Light of his Successors | Robert Smol, University of New Brunswick

5B: Perspectives on the First World War

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Melissa Davidson, Directorate of History and Heritage

• “Chaos Reigned Supreme”: The Canadian Contingent Support Services Go to War 1914-15 | Bradley Shoebottom, University of New Brunswick
• A Bird’s Eye View: Air Power at Vimy Ridge | William March

10:15 – 11:45 | Session 6

6A | Persecution, Prosecution, and Activism in the Canadian Military

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo

• Case Histories from the Canadian Court Martial Record in the Second World War | Matthew Barrett, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada
• Anchoring Activism: The Lives of Queer Sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy During and After the Second World War | Aly Firth & John McConnell, Wilfrid Laurier University
• A Lost Soldier: Attempted Suicide in the Canadian Army during the Second World War | Anna Lalli, Western University

6B: Air Power and the Battle of Normandy

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Jeff Noakes, Canadian War Museum

• Escadrille (00)69 and Hiding in Plain Site: Civilian and Military Application of False Walls and Camouflage at Code Name ‘Sherwood’ During the Normandy Interdiction Campaign – the Canadian Context | Robert Chapman, WW2 Escape Lines Memorial Society
• The Archaeology of an Air Raid: No. 6 Group (RCAF) and the Bombing of the Forét de Chantilly, France on 8th August 1944 | David Passmore & David Capps-Tunwell

12:00 – 1:00 | Closing Plenary

Senate & Board Chamber

The Making of a great Canadian War Film? | Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo

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