Friday 8 May

8:45 – 10:15 | Session 1

1A | Roundtable: Teaching Military History

Senate & Board Chamber | Moderator: Alex Souchen, University of Guelph

• Jessica Alletson-McIntyre, Glebe Collegiate Institute
• Dave Alexander, Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute
• Katy Whitfield, Bloor Collegiate Institute
• Ryan McManaman, Owen Sound District Secondary School
• Erin Doupe, John F. Ross Collegiate and Vocational Institute 

1B | War, Power and Politics in 18th and 19th Century Canada

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Roger Sarty, Wilfrid Laurier University

• The Invasion of Quebec and the Politics of Popular Protest, 1775-1776 | Richard Tomczak, Stony Brook University
• Spaces of Power: Colonel Joel Stone, the 2nd Leeds Militia Regiment, and the War of 1812 | Tod Strickland, Queen’s University

1C | Constructing Ideas of War

Arts 1C17 | Chair: Kelly Morrison, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Controversies of the Second World War in Approved BC Textbooks | Colton Enslen, University of Guelph
• Seeing is Believing: The Normandy Newsreels | Norma Graham, Wilfrid Laurier University

10:30 – 12:00 | Session 2

2A | Stories Beyond the Battlefield: The Dead, Their Families, and War’s Long Shadow

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

• Accounting for Service: The Mystery of Captain William Webster Wilson | Melissa Davidson, Directorate of History and Heritage
• Forests of Memory: German First World War Cemetery Design and the Construction of National Identity | Laura Gardner, Directorate of History and Heritage
• “Deeply loved / Sadly mourned / Proudly remembered”: Bereaved Families, the First World War, and the Search for the Missing | Alexandra McKinnon, Directorate of History and Heritage

2B | The RCAF in the Early Cold War

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Richard Mayne, RCAF History & Heritage

• Canada, the Royal Canadian Air Force and NATO Contributions in the Early Cold War | LCol Paul Johnston, RCAF History and Heritage Office
• The CP-107 Argus: A New Long Range Maritime Aircraft for the Early Cold War RCAF | Adam Coombs, Directorate of History and Heritage
• Canada’s Nuclear Confrontation: The RCAF and the Cuban Missile Crisis | Mike Bechthold, RCAF History and Heritage Office

2C | The Person in the Uniform

Arts 1C17 | Chair: Graham Broad, King’s University College, UWO

• Courts Martial of Conscientious Objectors: Case of Alexander Aab v. Canada | Murád Alizada-Hamidlinski, University of Waterloo
• Private Charles Doucette: A Case Study of the Indigenous Second World War Experience in the Canadian Military | Maren Burgoyne, University of Guelph

12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:30 | Session 3

3A | Research Methods in Canadian Military History

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Alex Souchen, University of Guelph

• Housewives, Hardened Soldiers, and HTML: Understanding the Special Operations Executive Agents Experience Using Digital Methods | Grace Nelson, University of Guelph
• Graphic History Methodologies: Representing Military History and Depicting War Trauma | Matthew Barrett, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada
• Reclaiming the Voices of Women and Girls in Canada’s Land Army | Kelsey Lonie, Regimental Historian, Royal Regina Rifles

3B | The Canadian War Records Office

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Carla-Jean Stokes, Independent Researcher

• Global War Through the Eyes of an Artist | Tabitha deBruin, Canadian Encyclopedia
• The Canadian Army in Action and the Advance of the Tank: Revitalizing the Canadian War Spirit Through Film | Cam Telch, Mount St. Vincent University
• J.B. McDowell: The Forgotten Cameraman of the First World War | Glenn Warner, Independent Researcher

3C | The Hundred Days

Arts 1C17 | Chair: Melissa Davidson, Directorate of History and Heritage

• Adapting on the Fly: Air Power and the Canadian Expeditionary Force During the Last 100 Days | William March, Independent Scholar
• “Push all bridges forward to the canal”: Hasty and heavy bridging operations by the Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days, 1918 | Bradley Shoebottom, University of New Brunswick
• “Get in Touch With the Enemy”: The Canadian Cyclist Battalion’s Reconnaissance and Intelligence Gathering Operations During the 100 Days Campaign, August-November 1918 | Robert Smol, University of New Brunswick

3D | Canadians in Unexpected Places

Arts 1C16 | Chair: Katelyn Stieva, Western University

• Clouston and Operation Dynamo: Canada’s Forgotten Hero | Nicholas Herten-Greaven, Independent Scholar
• Canadians in Mesopotamia During the First World War: Canadians on the Tigris | Austin Wild & Jonah Ellens

2:45 – 3:45 | Session 4

4A | New Perspectives and New Ground

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Adam Coombs, Directorate of History and Heritage

• Debriefing the Savio River Crossing in October 1944: Rethinking Smoky Smith’s Victoria Cross | John Keess, Royal Military College of Canada
• War of the Past, Crisis of the Present: Writing the Official History of Canadian Military Observers in Vietnam, 1954-1973 | Jean-Michel Turcotte, Directorate of History and Heritage

4B | Children and the First World War

Arts 1C17 | Chair: Kevin Spooner, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Drafting the Citizen: The YMCA and the Moral Mobilization of Canadian Youth, 1917-1919 | Alex Gagné, Canadian War Museum
• Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children in Canada’s First World War | Kelly Morrison, Wilfrid Laurier University

4C | Defining ‘Desirable’

Arts 1C16 | Chair: Eric Story, Western University

• The Logistics of Segregation: Understanding the Origins of the No.2 Construction Battalion in Canada’s First World War | Katelyn Stieva, Western University
• “Weeding Out Unstable Men and Incorrigible Women”: Personnel Selection and Mental Hygiene in the Canadian Army During the Second World War | Nancy Carvell, University of New Brunswick

5:00 – 6:00 | Keynote Address

Of Space and Time: Situating First World War Photographs | Carla-Jean Stokes, Independent Researcher

Saturday 9 May

8:30 – 10:00 | Session 5

5A | Of Monuments and Memory

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Alexandra McKinnon, Directorate of History and Heritage

• Shadows of the Abbey des Ardenne: The Trial of Kurt Meyer and the Ardenne Abbey Massacre | Robert Dienesch, Independent Scholar
• Crafting Canada’s D-Day Monument on Juno Beach | Alex Fitzgerald-Black, Juno Beach Centre Association
• The Soviet Soldier in Stouffville: Symbolic Dissonance and the Politics of Canadian Remembrance | Stefan Venceljovski, Independent Scholar

5B | Home Front Policies and Legacies

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Kelsey Lonie, Regimental Historian, Regina Rifles

• A Home Front of Lost Homes: Expropriation, Displacement, and Canada’s Munitions Factories during the Second World War | Alex Souchen, University of Guelph and Kirstyn Hipkiss, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Arming Canada, Britain, and America: Department of Munitions and Supply, British Supply Board, and War Supplies Limited, 1939-41 | Nicholas Small, Independent Scholar
• Wildlife or Warfare: Competing Visions for the Meaford Tank Range after 1945 | Bram Fookes, University of Guelph

5C | Medical Histories

Arts 1C17 | Craig Mantle, Canadian Forces College

• Venereal Disease in the Victorian Military | Sheila Johnston, Independent Scholar
• Pharmacists and the Ranks: The Pressure of Professional Status in the Canadian Army Medical Corps During the Great War | Dan Malleck, Brock University
• Lungs and Limbs: The Forgotten Fight for Disability Rights after the Great War | Eric Story, Western University

5D | Lessons of the Second World War

Arts 1C16 | Chair: Matthew Barrett, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada

• Hidden in the Attic: Bringing WWII Espionage to Life in New Brunswick Curriculum | Robert Chapman, WWII Escape Lines Memorial Society
• Letters in Wartime: Teaching the Life of Harry G. Dickson Jr. RCAF | Kristen Jeanveau, Western University
• “Fond Memories”: The Remarkable Life in War and Peace of Horace “Ace” Beach | Ron Usher, Independent Scholar

10:15 – 11:45 | Session 6

6A | Material History and the World Wars

Senate & Board Chamber | Chair: Craig Mantle, Canadian Forces College

• The Missing of the Great War and Modern Discovery | Glenn Kerr, Western Front Association (Central Ontario Branch)
• “By Hook and Crook”: Origins of Second World War Collections in Northwest Europe May-November 1945 | Drew Carter, Royal Military College of Canada
• “A complete and total lack of accommodation”: The Fate of Second World War collections in Canada, 1945-49 | Jeff Noakes, Canadian War Museum

6B | Building, Reflecting, Rebuilding

Paul Martin Centre | Chair: Mike Bechthold, RCAF History and Heritage Office

• Bill Carr and His Staff and the Creation of Air Command in 1975 | Richard Goette, Canadian Forces College
• “Uncertain of Position, But Making Good Time:  How I came to learn about and love the RCAF” | Randy Wakelam, Royal Military College of Canada
• “Take That Paul Hellyer”: The 2011 Return of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army | Matthew Trudgen, RCAF History and Heritage

6C | Combat Operations in the Second World War

Arts 1C17 | Chair: Geoffrey Hayes, University of Waterloo

• Far Superior to Towed Guns: The Archers of 2nd Canadian Corps | Christopher Camfield, Independent Scholar
• Leading From the Front: Leadership Culture and Discipline in the 1st Canadian Infantry Division at Valguarnera, 1943 | Samuel Nesbitt, University of Ottawa
• Could You Please Choose a More Inconvenient Time – Command of the 4th Armoured Brigade During Operation Tractable | Anthony Shields, Independent Scholar

12:00 – 1:00 | Closing Roundtable

Remembering Tim Cook

• Brittany Dunn, Canadian Army Honours and Heritage
• Serge Durflinger, University of Ottawa
• Jeff Noakes, Canadian War Museum
• Roger Sarty, Wilfrid Laurier University