Military Lecture: Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children and the Making of Wartime Canada
Kelly Morrison, PhD candidate in history at Wilfrid Laurier University, specializing in War & Society studies will introduce Sir George Beardshaw, the last surviving veteran of the Second World War-era Queen’s Own Rifles and the only surviving British “Home Child” left in Canada. Morrison’s presentation introduces Beardshaw and a select group of Home Children, revealing how this marginalized group helped to define Canada’s national wartime and postwar identity.
The lecture premieres in-person at Guelph Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and their Museum Everywhere Portal.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.
The Military Lecture series is a partnership between Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Civic Museum.
