LCSC Blog
Watch Now: Charter Rights and the Encampment Ruling
“Charter Rights and the Encampment Ruling” is now available on Youtube. Click here to watch.
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
“Battle of the Atlantic: Gaunlet to Victory” is now available on Youtube. Click here to watch!
Eyewitness Canada: Armed Convoy Security, West Germany, 1977
Our main exercise was over for another year. The battalion was stumbling around like a bunch of zombies. All we wanted now was to flop down somewhere, anywhere, and wait for the trains to take us back to our base. Our Sergeant came up and told us. “You two are going to take a vehicle back to the staging area.”
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: 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...
Mapping the Cold War
This past August, The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, hosted the SSHRC funded symposium “Mapping the Cold War: The Spatialization of Preparedness,” in collaboration with The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC). This interdisciplinary workshop brought...
Meet the New Managing Editor of ‘Canadian Military History’
We would first like to thank Brittany Dunn for her terrific work as Managing Editor of Canadian Military History. Brittany worked through the pandemic with her usual efficiency and professionalism, and is stepping back to devote more time to her doctoral studies....
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...