In his new book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada’s Second World War, Tim Cook reminds us that "if we do not tell our own stories, no one else will." But the ways in which Canadians have chosen to remember the Second...

Derek Grout. Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015. Pp. 472. By Kyle Pritchard, Wilfrid Laurier University. The study of First World War diaries, both personal and operational, has grown considerably over the last two...

by Frank Reid – Canadian Military History Colloquium Web Series. Discussion Open until December 23rd.

So much of what we have today comes from the great courage, sacrifice and loss of those who fought a century ago. Though the war was over, there were still many whose minds never really left the trenches. In this week following Remembrance Day, Kathleen Taggart takes pause to commemorate those who could never put the war behind them, and who suffered every hardship until it was too much to bear.

In September, Tim Cook launched his new book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War. His talk is now available below and on our YouTube channel. Based on his new book, historian and best-selling author Tim...

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong, Canadian Military History will be publishing a special issue in fall 2021. We invite submissions that examine the Battle of Hong Kong from multiple perspectives. Canadian and non-Canadian perspectives are...

David O’Keefe is the author of One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe and his most recent book, Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers. Never one to shy away from public exposure, O’Keefe...

In this LCMSDS Centre Blog’s Halloween Special, sit down with Dr. Kyle Falcon for some
ghostly tales and even spookier questions surrounding the supernatural, remembrance and the commemoration of battlefields from the First World War.