So Long Bonnie: The Decommissioning of HMCS Bonaventure and Canada’s role in Anti-Submarine Warfare By Hugh A. Gordon, Keyano College Part III: Debating the Bonnie’s Future This is the second in a series of articles about the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure. See Part I and Part II. As the Defence Policy Review was debated within DND and […]
Read more »So Long Bonnie: The Decommissioning of HMCS Bonaventure and Canada’s role in Anti-Submarine Warfare By Hugh A. Gordon, Keyano College Part II: Scandal and a Changing Strategic Situation This is the second in a series of articles about the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure. See Part I. In early 1963, the Diefenbaker government was defeated by […]
Read more »So Long Bonnie: The Decommissioning of HMCS Bonaventure and Canada’s role in Anti-Submarine Warfare By Hugh A. Gordon, Keyano College Part I: Origins and a Missed Opportunity This is the first in a series of articles about the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure. If you ask any Canadian naval aviation veteran, September 19, 1969 was […]
Read more »The McKay Fallen, Part IV: Andrew Douglas Stalker by Dr. Alan Bowker This is the fourth and final article in a series that explores how the Great War impacted the lives of a single family belonging to the MacKay United Church in New Edinburgh. See also Part I, Part II, and Part III of the series. Andrew […]
Read more »Lessons Learned: The Military Family By Alex Purcell and Kyle Pritchard In 2017, the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies received a grant from the Department of National Defence to host a forum on the past and present experiences of veterans in Canada. This forum entailed two conference panel presentations, a four-part podcast […]
Read more »Lessons Learned: Veteran Mental Health and Trauma by Alex Purcell and Alexander Maavara In 2017, the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies received a grant from the Department of National Defence to host a forum on the past and present experiences of veterans in Canada. This forum entailed two conference panel presentations, a […]
Read more »The McKay Fallen, Part III: George Frederick Stalker by Dr. Alan Bowker This is the third in a series of articles exploring how the Great War impacted the lives of a single family belonging to the MacKay United Church in New Edinburgh. See also Part I and Part II of the series. George Frederick Stalker was the […]
Read more »The MacKay Fallen, Part II: Robert Alexander Stalker by Dr. Alan Bowker This is the first in a series of articles exploring how the Great War impacted the lives of a single family belonging to the MacKay United Church in New Edinburgh. Click here for Part I of the series. Robert Stalker was born in London, England, […]
Read more »The MacKay Fallen, Part I: Introduction by Dr. Alan Bowker This is the first in a series of articles exploring how the Great War impacted the lives of a single family belonging to the MacKay United Church in New Edinburgh. After the Remembrance Day service at MacKay United Church in Ottawa in 2014, in which the […]
Read more »Dyer’s Battalion: the Untold Story of the Russian Revolution (Part II) by Trevor Ford This is the conclusion in a two-part article. See also Part I. In 1918, the British led North Russian Expeditionary Force realized that they needed local support to defeat the Bolshevik forces in North Russia. Early on the Expeditionary Force attempted to […]
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