About Glenn Kerr
- Chair of the Central Ontario Branch of the Western Front Association
- National Award-Winning Freelance Historical Writer and Researcher
- Awarded the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers by the Governor General of Canada for historical contributions to Canada and connecting families with their past.
- Editor and Publisher of Maple Leaf Magazine — An internationally circulated periodical devoted to Canada’s legacy of sacrifice and achievement during the First World War and beyond.
- Battlefield explorer.
About the lecture
The announcements, once infrequent, are a monthly occurrence now. It is a sad or pleasing reality depending on your perspective, that after more than a century, the fields of France and Belgium are surrendering an increasing number of Canadian soldiers of the Great War. It was inevitable with the expansion of housing and industry into the old battlefields combined with large infrastructure projects that cut through the heart of battlefields where intense fighting once took place.
Through writing and research, Glenn Kerr seeks to shine a light into a chapter of Canadian and Commonwealth history where the soldiers and closest loved ones can no longer speak for themselves. How is our modern world dealing with these new logistical challenges and the endless sensitive considerations for soldiers whose closest family members have also passed into memory? More than a century after the Armistice, the missing of the Great War have reappeared in modern memory and their descendants are waiting and watching as protectorates of that memory.
Location: Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph, ON N1H 2W9.
Doors open at 6:30 and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.
The lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and the Museum Everywhere Portal.
Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with Tri-U partner Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
