by Kyle Pritchard | Feb 10, 2020 | Centre Blogs, First World War, Veterans |
by Kyle Pritchard Alongside reuniting with their families and receiving medical treatment, employment was pivotal to First World War veterans’ return to normalcy and financial stability after the traumas of the trenches. With about half of Canadian soldiers engaged in...
by Kyle Pritchard | Jan 13, 2020 | Centre Blogs, First World War, Spiritualism, Veterans |
by Kyle Falcon Serviceman James Doody was stationed at the Shorncliffe Army Camp in June of 1915 when he began reading the popular spiritualist journal, The Two Worlds. In those pages he would have read about angelic intervention during the British retreat from Mons...
by Kyle Pritchard | Dec 5, 2019 | Centre Blogs, Second World War |
by Eric Brown This is the third and final article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. Was Peter now a better pilot? Reading the comments of his trainers at the various schools he attended...
by Kyle Pritchard | Nov 11, 2019 | Centre Blogs, First World War, Veterans |
by Georgia Gingrich During the First World War, Canadians were divided over the consumption of alcohol, with prohibition efforts succeeding in many provinces between 1916 and 1918. I was introduced to this tension while meticulously combing through the mortality...
by Kyle Pritchard | Oct 18, 2019 | Centre Blogs, International Conflict |
by Paul Esau The arms trade is a tricky business for a self-proclaimed “middle power” like Canada. Export too little and you’ll be accused of undercutting the domestic military producers needed to maintain a Defence Industrial Base (DIB), and consequently outsourcing...
by Kyle Pritchard | Sep 24, 2019 | Centre Blogs, Second World War |
by Eric Brown This is the second article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. Throughout the training program, aircrew candidates were constantly being evaluated. At any stage of the...
