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PUBLIC LECTURE: Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory with Ted Barris

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Winter 2022

TED BARRIS

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

11 January @ 7:00 pm ET
In 1939, Canada’s navy went to war with exactly 13 warships and about 3,500 sailors. During the desperate Atlantic crossings, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the 4th largest navy in the world. The Battle of the Atlantic proved to be Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the war. The story of Canada’s naval awakening in the bloody battle to get convoys to Britain is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages.
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CHRISTINA HAN

Time Travel to Brantford, 1900 – 1920

15 February @ 7:00 pm ET

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BARRINGTON WALKER

Critical Histories of Blackness in Canada: R v. R.D.S

22 March @ 7:00 pm ET

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TIM COOK

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
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New articles are available from Canadian Military History!

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The fate of soldiers captured during the Hundred Days, Canada’s Faustian Bargain to Save Civilians in the Western Netherlands, the Evacuation of Canadian Personnel in Libya in 2014, plus seven book reviews.
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New articles are available from Canadian Military History!

Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer / Autumn 2022

Pursuit to Valenciennes 1918

BRIAN PASCAS
Abstract: This article tracks the Canadian Corps’ pursuit of the retreating German army in the last weeks of the First World War. As French hamlets, villages and towns were liberated, the war-weary troops—nursing grudges after almost four years of war—encountered civilians who had endured poor and sometimes brutal treatment under the yoke of the cruel invader. During the Battle of Valenciennes hundreds of German soldiers were killed; the vast majority perished under immense artillery barrages. But a number who survived the onslaught of shells and bullets succumbed to Canadians’ rifles while or after surrendering. Motives are identified that drove frontline soldiers to kill surrendering opponents on the battlefield. This article contends that one strong motive for killing surrendering soldiers in the heat of battle was revenge for the untold civilian suffering in previously enemy-occupied territory.

Crossing the Grebbe Line

NATHAN DYCK
Abstract: Beginning at the military-political level and ending at the regimental level, this paper will explore the growth of Canadian responsibility within a failing Allied relief framework throughout the Dutch Hunger Winter 1944-1945. Beginning in early April 1945, I Canadian Corps experienced a growing responsibility to secure an independently negotiated and effective ceasefire on the Grebbe Line to enable transport of food prior to broader German surrender. Under the name of Operation Faust, I Corps utilised targeted medical and food relief practices to address gaps in Allied relief capacity, following what Canadian Military Headquarters (CMHQ) referred to as a “hastily improvised” planning process. The objective of this article is to explore how an unheralded Canada exerted such great humanitarian influence while acting independently of the broader Allied command framework.

Op LOBE and the Evacuation of Canadian Personnel from Libya, 2014

ANDREW BURTCH
Abstract: In the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Libya and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s intervention that overturned Muammar Gaddafi’s government amid fears of reprisals against civilians, Canada and other countries re-established a diplomatic presence. The region was still unstable with many competing militias in a tentative truce following Gaddafi’s downfall. Canada’s embassy required a military presence to secure the compound and the safety of Canadian VIPs. In July 2014, the men and women of Operation LOBE were forced to evacuate from Libya amid a diplomatic exodus during a resurgence of civil war. This piece, based largely on a Canadian War Museum oral history interview with Op LOBE’s Roto 6 Task Force Commander Major Doug Henderson, revisits the mission’s purpose, its deployment, the challenges faced in country and the successful evacuation of Canadian personnel to Tunisia in the summer of 2014.

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PUBLIC LECTURE:

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

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TED BARRIS

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PUBLIC LECTURE: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War with Tim Cook

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FALL 2022

TIM COOK

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War

01 December @ 7:00 pm ET
This definitive medical history of the Great War will illuminate how the carnage of  the modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.
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This hybrid event will be hosted in-person and broadcasted live via Zoom.

If you would like to attend in-person, the event will take place at 232 King St N. Doors will open at 6:30pm.

For online attendance, CLICK HERE to register.
Upcoming Events
TED BARRIS

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

11 January @ 7:00 pm ET

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Recent Events

KATRIN ROOTS

The Domestication of Human Trafficking in Canada
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PUBLIC LECTURE: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War with Tim Cook

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Tim Cook and Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War
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FALL 2022
TIM COOK

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War

1 December @ 7:00 pm ET
This definitive medical history of the Great War will illuminate how the carnage of  the modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.
ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

This hybrid event will be hosted in-person and broadcasted live via Zoom.

If you would like to attend in-person, the event will take place at 232 King St N. Doors will open at 6:30pm.

For online attendance, CLICK HERE to register.
Upcoming Events

PAUL ESAU | GUELPH CIVIC MUSEUM

The Evolution of Canadian Export Policy, 1946 – 1991

17 November @ 7:00 pm ET

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GUELPH CIVIC MUSEUM

McCrae 150 Symposium

26 November @ 10:00 am ET

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TED BARRIS

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

11 January @ 7:00 pm ET

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Presented by:
Recent Events

KATRIN ROOTS

The Domestication of Human Trafficking in Canada
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PUBLIC LECTURE: The Domestication of Human Trafficking in Canada with Katrin Roots

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Katrin Roots & The Domestication of Human Trafficking in Canada
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KATRIN ROOTS

Domestication of Human Trafficking in Canada

27 October @ 7:00 pm ET
Human trafficking is an issue that has garnered significant attention in Canada and globally, following the enactment of the United Nations’ Trafficking Protocol in 2002. Expansive laws, policies and mandates against trafficking were put into place following Canada’s ratification of the Protocol. This talk will examine some of the impacts of these efforts over the past twenty years, including how trafficking has come to be defined, and its impacts on sex working, migrant and racialized communities.
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This hybrid event will be hosted in-person and broadcasted live via Zoom.

If you would like to attend in-person, the event will take place at 232 King St N. Doors will open at 6:30pm.

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Upcoming Events

AMY MILNE-SMITH

Book Launch: Amy Milne-Smith Presents “Out of His Mind”

26 October @ 4:30 pm ET

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TIM COOK

Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: A Medical History of the Great War

1 December @ 7:00 pm ET

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TED BARRIS

Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory

11 January @ 7:00 pm ET

CLICK HERE for more information
Presented by:
Recent Events

TERRY COPP

The Irish Canadian Rangers in Canada and Ireland, 1914-17
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