RCMI: “Canada and the Great War,” with Dr. Tim Cook and Dr. William Stewart, June 8th. Join Dr. Tim Cook and Dr. William Stewart as they discuss “Canada in the Great War: The Somme to Vimy” on June 8th at the Royal Canadian Military Institute located at 426 University Ave, Toronto. See poster below for more […]
Read more »Canada as Safe Haven? The Migration of War Resisters from the United States May 4th Evening Key Notes Speaker & Panel Followed by 1-Day Conference (registration link below) Co-hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the International Migration Research Centre. On Friday, May 4th at 7:00pm, Dr. John Hagan, Professor of Sociology and Law […]
Read more »LCMSDS Presents Laurier Military Speaker Series, 2018 Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge,Wednesday, 11 April, 7 pm ‘We are very lonely without him:’ Children and Families in Canada’s Great War For tens of thousands of Canadian families, the First World War was a moment of rupture. Like their counterparts around the world, Canadian soldiers and the […]
Read more »LCMSDS Presents Guelph Military Lecture Series Katrina Pasierbek, Thursday, March 22nd, 7pm at the Guelph Civic Museum Underground at Vimy: Commemorating the Cave Carvers Located “somewhere in France” is an underground chalk cave that was used to shelter soldiers from the aboveground dangers during the First World War. In the days leading up to […]
Read more »Lend Your Leg 2018 Help us commemorate International Landmine Awareness Day by taking part in Lend Your Leg Laurier on the WLU campus on March 21. Learn about the adverse effects landmines cause while showing solidarity with all survivors of landmines worldwide! The Centre is a proud sponsor of the 2018 annual ‘Lend Your Leg Laurier’ […]
Read more »LCMSDS Presents Laurier Military Speaker Series, Winter 2018 Graham Broad, King’s College, Western University,Wednesday, 14 March, 7 pm The (Royal) Flying Canadian: Eddie McKay and Early Air Warfare, 1915–16 In late 1915, Eddie McKay of London, Ontario became one of the first Canadians to join the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). Using McKay’s experience as a lens, […]
Read more »34th Annual MacKinnon Dinner, Dr. Jack Granatstein, “Canda’s Hundred Day Offensive in World War One.” March 10 at the Charcoal Steakhouse The University of Waterloo History Society hosts an annual dinner in the memory of Hugh MacKinnon. The MacKinnon Dinner is for students, faculty, family, friends, and anyone interested to come together and enjoy good food, drink, […]
Read more »LCMSDS Presents Guelph Military Lecture Series Lynsday Rosenthal, February 15th, 7pm at the Guelph Civic Museum A Plague of Diseased Soldiers Venereal disease became a problem for the Canadian Expeditionary Force soon after they arrived in England. While VD was initially treated as a moral problem, the military was forced to treat it as a […]
Read more »Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (CAANS) Panel: Belgium and the Netherlands during the Great War (1914-1918) University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan 26-27 May 2018 To mark the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of the First World War, CAANS plans to include […]
Read more »LCMSDS Presents Laurier Military Speaker Series, Winter 2018 Mark Humphries, Director of the LCMSDS and the Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience, Wilfrid Laurier University Wednesday, 7 February, 7 pm The Canadian Corps at Passchendaele 100 Years On For more than a century, Passchendaele has been the battle which best captures […]
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