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Session 4A
Canada’s First World War
Chair: Serge Durflinger [University of Ottawa]
French Canada’s Participation in the Great War: A Study of Recruitment Posters
Emanuelle Cotton-Dumouchel [University of Ottawa]
Northwood Hospital for Sick Sisters
Ariane Gauthier [University of Ottawa]
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: The Role and Impact of Smoke in the Hundred Days Campaign 1918
William Stewart [Independent Scholar]
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Session 4B
Life after VE Day
Chair: Graham Broad [King’s University College at Western University]
A Sacred Mission: How Canada’s Jewish Military Personnel Liberated the Death Camps and Rescued Holocaust Survivors in the Second World War
Ellin Bessner [Centennial College]
“Much sooner ‘live in rubble in England than some of the houses in Montreal’”: British War Bride Marriages and the Housing Crisis in Ontario and Québec, 1944-1949
Chelsea Barranger [McMaster University]
“Opportunities Unlimited”: Western Counties Health and Rehabilitation Centre and the Rehabilitation of Canadian Second World War Veterans
Rosemary Giles [Western University]
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Today at 4:15 pm ET:
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Plenary Address
Norman Bethune and the Bishop: The Spanish Civil War in the Streets of Montreal
Terry Copp, Wilfrid Laurier University