Monthly Archives: November 2023

Remembrance and reflection

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Another item from Canada’s History magazine with a focus on remembrance that may be of interest to members.
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Explore the resources below as you and your students remember and reflect on the complexity of war this November and beyond.
| Historical Thinking

‘Bomb Girls’: Defense Industries Limited and the Home Front

This lesson has students use documents, images, and interviews to gather data about the historical experiences of the ‘Bomb Girls’ and their workplace environment at Defence Industries Limited. Learn more

War and Peace in the Classroom

CANADA IN FOCUSIn this guide, educators share how they teach war and peace in the classroom, including advice, online resources, books, and lesson plans. Learn more
| Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids

Flying and Spying: The Life of Kam Len Douglas Sam

HISTORY BITSThrough exploring the life of Kam Len Douglas Sam, students will discover why Sam was the most decorated and highest-ranked Chinese Canadian in history. Learn more

At Home and Away

Explore the Kayak issues “Remembering the Great War,” “Great Canadian Women,” and “Canada and the Second World War” for stories about some of the many ways Canadians have been touched by war.
| Museum Connections

Canada in the Korean War

STORIES BEHIND THE HISTORYIn this podcast episode, Canadian War Museum post-1945 historian Andrew Burtch and Canadian Armed Forces Chief of the Defence Staff General Wayne Eyre discuss Canada’s role in Korea, during the war and beyond. Listen now

Lee-Enfield Rifle

50 MUSEUM MARVELSAfter losing his cherished rifle, nicknamed “Rosalie,” during a gas attack in June 1918, Henri-Paul Lecorre discovered it thirty-eight years later in an exhibition of military artifacts in Lachute, Quebec. Learn more
War Games, CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM | In an age when tech can game out gazillions of options in a split second, it’s arresting to take in very real, often very analog, military simulations. Learn more

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🍁 We Remember

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Note the focus on remembrance as this month’s theme in the Canada’s History magazine.

Also, due to the fact that we are in the remembrance period, we’re likely to see more activity in the blog portion of our website over the next couple of weeks.
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Over the Top

How a photographer faked Canada’s most iconic battlefield images. Read more

War Games

A Canadian War Museum exhibition highlights the history of strategy gaming, from deadly serious to light-hearted. Read more

Canada in the Korean War

Podcast: The border between North and South Korea bristles with weapons and with mistrust. A stress point in current global tensions, the border on the 38th Parallel is a seventy-year-old legacy of the Korean War. Listen now

Lee-Enfield Rifle

A soldier carved his memories into his Second World War weapon. Read more

Airplane Nose Art

Decorations on a Second World War bomber recall Quebec’s contribution to the conflict. Read more

Canada in Focus: War and Peace

Is Canada really a nation of peacekeepers? Watch now

History Bits: Flying and Spying

Chinese-Canadian Kam Len “Doug” Sam served in the air force in the Second World War. Shot down in France, he gathered critical information as a spy for the Allies. Watch now

End of the Second World War

2020 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. For Remembrance Day we curated a collection of our online articles, audio, images and video about that era. Read more

The War to End All War

November 2018 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War. A century later, the conflict continues to affect us — even if we don’t fully realize it. This is our collection from the past ten years of articles, audio, images and video about the Great War. Read more

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Canada’s History Archive featuring The Beaver

Please note: Some items featured in our newsletters and social media will include links to the Canada’s History Archive. The Beaver magazine was founded, and for decades was published, during eras shaped by colonialism. Concepts such as racial, cultural, or gender equality were rarely, if ever, considered by the magazine or its contributors. In earlier issues, readers will find comments and terms now considered derogatory. Canada’s History Society cautions readers to explore the archive using historical thinking concepts — not only analyzing the content but asking questions of who shaped the content and why.
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How we talk about war and remembrance

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An item from the Legion Magazine.
Front Lines
Front Lines

Stephen J. Thorne

How we talk about war and remembrance

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

The language of war and remembrance is couched in euphemism, hyperbole and a healthy dose of gilded lilies. In short, a lot of overused words and hackneyed phrases that tend to glorify and obfuscate, comfort and satisfy.

In war, politicians and military mucky-mucks use alternative language to soften the reality of, or maintain support for, humankind’s greatest failure—phrases or words such as “collateral damage” for civilian casualties, “enhanced interrogation techniques” for torture, “ethnic cleansing” for genocide, and “conflict” for war.

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Canada’s early naval struggles

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

“This is going to be an awful trip,” sailor James Reeves reflected in a letter to his wife.

Reeves was by no means a complainer, and his sentiment, echoed by his mates, was prophetic. The crew of HMCS Galiano were set to sail “the Triangle,” a body of water between B.C.’s Cape Scott and Cape St. James deemed the “worst piece of water on the Pacific Coast.” The ship traversed the foreboding stretch in an attempt to provide Triangle Island residents with supplies and gasoline during a wicked October storm.

“I don’t think we will be home until the end of November,” fellow shipmate James Aird commented. “I dread the Triangle.”

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