by Kyle Pritchard | Nov 11, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
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 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
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 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
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...
by Kyle Pritchard | Jul 15, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
by Eric Brown This is the first article in a three-part series on the life of Second World War veteran Peter Biddlecombe. At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, men from all corners of Canada rushed to join the...
by LCMSDS | Jun 8, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
By Eric Story In the immediate aftermath of the Great War, Canadians began the process of coming to terms with the death and destruction the past conflict had wreaked on the young Dominion. According to historian Jonathan Vance, the public constructed a memory of the...
by Kyle Pritchard | May 10, 2019 | LCSC, War & Society Web Series, War and Society |
The Life of Gordon E.G. Brown After the War by Michael Saad This is the third and final article in a series on the life of Korean War veteran Gordon EG Brown. See also Part I and Part II. The Korean War weighed heavily on Gordon’s psyche upon his return home in the...
