Note these up-coming events from a partner of Dominion Command.  The first webinar, which may be of interest to some of our members, is scheduled for next week.

Episode 5 View this email in your browser MARIE EVE VAILLANCOURT DIEPPE 80 YEARS AFTER: THE JUNO BEACH CENTRE’S EXHIBITION FROM DIEPPE TO JUNO 10 August @ 7:30 pm ET CLICK HERE to register The Dieppe Raid is shrouded in controversy and tragedy. For decades, it dominated Canadians’ collective memory of the war. Considered a tragic failure since 1942, its story is as complex as it is nuanced. The presentation will explore the challenges of putting together an exhibition on a subject of failure in a place of victory like Juno Beach. It will also explore our evolving understanding of the raid, its links to Juno Beach on D-Day and the liberation of Dieppe in September 1944 as well as its place in Canada’s collective memory of the Second World War. Upcoming Webinars STACEY BARKER To Help Win the Fight: Canadian Servicewomen of the Second World War 31 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register Presented by: Recent Events R. SCOTT SHEFFIELD Fighting a White Man’s War: Canada’s First Nations Peoples and the Second World War MIKE BECHTHOLDPer Ardua Ad Astra: The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Second World War ANNA PEARSON, STEPHEN CONNOR AND ROBERT CATSBURG Ne-kah-ne-tah: The Liberation of Welberg, Memory, Meaning and Experience JEFF NOAKESCanada and the Second World War at Sea Copyright © 2022 Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: LCSC 75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5

These online events, the first of which is tomorrow, from a partner of Dominion Command may be of interest to some of our members.

Episode 4 View this email in your browser R. SCOTT SHEFFIELD FIGHTING A WHITE MAN’S WAR: CANADA’S FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR 20 July @ 7:30 pm ET CLICK HERE to register The Second World War became a total war for Canada, drawing in virtually every person in virtually every region of the country in diverse ways, including Canada’s First Nations population. As wards of the state, this was not Status Indians’ war to fight, and yet more than 4,000 enlisted, and extensive patriotic gestures, voluntarism, and war employment on the Homefront suggest that First Nations people mostly did see this as their war. Why was this so? And what implications did this have for First Nations’ place and status in Canadian society? Upcoming Webinars MARIE EVE VAILLANCOURT Dieppe 80 Years After: The Juno Beach Centre’s Exhibition From Dieppe to Juno 10 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register STACEY BARKER To Help Win the Fight: Canadian Servicewomen of the Second World War 31 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register Presented by: Recent Events MIKE BECHTHOLD Per Ardua Ad Astra: The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Second World War ANNA PEARSON, STEPHEN CONNOR, ROBERT CATSBERG Ne-kah-ne-tah: The Liberation of Welberg, Memory, Meaning, and Experience JEFF NOAKES Canada and the Second World War at Sea Copyright © 2022 Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: LCSC 75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5

Note these items from a partner of Dominion Command may be of interest to some of our members.

Episode 4 View this email in your browser R. SCOTT SHEFFIELD FIGHTING A WHITE MAN’S WAR: CANADA’S FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR 20 July @ 7:30 pm ET CLICK HERE to register The Second World War became a total war for Canada, drawing in virtually every person in virtually every region of the country in diverse ways, including Canada’s First Nations population. As wards of the state, this was not Status Indians’ war to fight, and yet more than 4,000 enlisted, and extensive patriotic gestures, voluntarism, and war employment on the Homefront suggest that First Nations people mostly did see this as their war. Why was this so? And what implications did this have for First Nations’ place and status in Canadian society? Upcoming Webinars MARIE EVE VAILLANCOURT Dieppe 80 Years After: The Juno Beach Centre’s Exhibition From Dieppe to Juno 10 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register STACEY BARKER To Help Win the Fight: Canadian Servicewomen of the Second World War 31 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register Presented by: Recent Events MIKE BECHTHOLD Per Ardua Ad Astra: The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Second World War ANNA PEARSON, STEPHEN CONNOR, ROBERT CATSBERG Ne-kah-ne-tah: The Liberation of Welberg, Memory, Meaning and Experience JEFF NOAKES Canada and the Second World War at Sea Copyright © 2022 Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: LCSC 75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5

These online events, the first of which is in about a week, from a partner of Dominion Command may be of interest to some of our members.

Episode 3 View this email in your browser MIKE BECHTHOLD PER ARDUA AD ASTRA: THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 29 June @ 7:30 pm ET CLICK HERE to register In a few short years, the Royal Canadian Air Force expanded from a small domestic force of 8 squadrons and 4,000 personnel to a globe-spanning air force with 80 operational squadrons and 250,000 personnel (including 17,000 women). The RCAF defended London, led the Normandy invasion, protected convoys in the North Atlantic, and took the fight to Hamburg and Berlin. RCAF pilots served in North Africa, Italy, Burma, and the Aleutians. And, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was one of Canada’s most important wartime activities. This talk will explore the RCAF’s many contributions to victory in the Second World War. Upcoming Webinars R. SCOTT SHEFFIELD Fighting a White Man’s War: Canada’s First Nations Peoples and the Second World War 20 July @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register MARIE EVE VAILLANCOURT Dieppe 80 Years After: The Juno Beach Centre’s Exhibition From Dieppe to Juno 10 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register STACEY BARKER To Help Win the Fight: Canadian Servicewomen of the Second World War 31 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register Presented by: Recent Events JEFF NOAKES Canada and the Second World War at Sea Copyright © 2022 Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: LCSC 75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5

These online events, the first of which is tomorrow, from a partner of Dominion Command may be of interest to some of our members.

Aaaaaaand we’re back for season 2! View this email in your browser The Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series is Back! ANNA PEARSON, STEHPEN CONNOR, and ROBERT CATSBERG NE-KAH-NE-TAH: THE LIBERATION OF WELBERG, MEMORY, MEANING AND EXPERIENCE 8 June @ 7:30 pm ET CLICK HERE to register Over five days in November 1944, the Algonquin Regiment played a pivotal role in the capture of the tiny Dutch town of Welberg. In 2018, twenty Canadian university students returned to the site as part of an experiential learning course focused on the Regiment’s warpath from Point 140 to the Kusten Canal. Throughout the program, students both ‘walked the ground’ and engaged with contemporary communities in order to better understand past evens and consider the construction of historical meaning and memory. This talk brings together three of the course’s facilitators: Anna Pearson (York University), Stephen Connor (Nipissing University) and Robert Catsburg (Welberg Liberation Memorial Foundation) to explore ways in which this hybrid of traditional and experiential learning introduced university students to a shared historical and cultural heritage. Upcoming Webinars MIKE BECHTHOLD Per Ardua Ad Astra: The Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War 29 June @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register R. SCOTT SHEFFIELD Fighting a White Man’s War: Canada’s First Nations Peoples and the Second World War 20 July @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register MARIE EVE VAILLANCOURT Dieppe 80 Years After: The Juno Beach Centre’s Exhibition From Dieppe to Juno 10 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register STACEY BARKER Women and the Second World War 31 August @ 7:30 pm EDT CLICK HERE to register Presented by: Recent Events MAYA GOLDENBERG Is There a War on Science? Copyright © 2022 Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: LCSC 75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON  N2L 3C5