Military_History

Waterloo PhD candidate Gillian Wagenaar examines a case of illicit correspondence between a Canadian teenager and a group of civilian internees in Quebec in the early years of the Second World War.

The lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and the Museum Everywhere Portal.

The Military Lecture series is a partnership between the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Museums.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.

Wilfrid Laurier PhD graduate, Eric Story, and adjunct professor there, follows the journey of thousands of men and women who paid an entirely different price than did the dead in service to Canada after the Great War: the 180,000 military service members who suffered some form of wounding, injury or illness on the battlefields of the Western Front.

The lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and our Museum Everywhere Portal.

The Military Lecture series is a partnership between the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Museums.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.

University of Guelph MA graduate, Austin Foster, presents the history of the University of Guelph’s War Memorial Hall, based on archival research for the War Memorial Hall: Its Early History, Heritage, and Legacy – A Centennial Retrospective (1924–2024) report. 

The lecture will premiere in-person at the Guelph Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and the Museum Everywhere Portal.

The Military Lecture series is a partnership between the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Museums.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.

Two presentations:

Bram Fookes, Billy Bishop Museum: "Ordnance in the Orchard: WW2 and the Militarization of Rural Ontario," and Lydia Kinasewich, History, University of Guelph: "Raw Milk Debates: Rural Producers and Consumer Health Concerns, 1956-91"

The presentation will take place in person at the University of Guelph in Room 132 of the MacKinnon building, and also remotely over Zoom. All are welcome to attend the in-person talk. For the Zoom presentation, please register through Eventbrite.

Drawing upon his 20+ years of experience as a War of 1812 reenactor, Tom Fournier will talk about his motivation for being a reenactor.  He will share his memories on the field, travelling the globe, meeting royalty, and even experiencing the paranormal.

Did you know that the Region of Waterloo is home to a Cold War nuclear shelter? Built in 1966 and designed by the same architectural firm responsible for the CN Tower, the bunker was constructed to ensure the continuity of government in the event of a catastrophic nuclear strike.

Join Dr. Sara Matthews for a discussion about how communities imagined nuclear survival and the role of Canadian Cold War propaganda. Together we will explore the visual communication of public safety and consider the question, “how is citizenship constructed in relation to threat?”

The Canadian Military History Colloquium is the largest gathering of military historians in Canada, bringing together academics, students, independent scholars and members of the public to share the latest work in Canadian military history and war and society.

Three graduate history students present their research on Pride themes. Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 1:00 pm. Register to be sent the Zoom link.

Aly Firth, MA student at Wilfrid Laurier University, offers an assessment of transgender roles and crossdressing in performances for the troops during the First World War. This Military Lecture is sponsored by Tri-U partner Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada and Guelph Museums.

The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada invites you to a hybrid lecture by Dr. Matthew Wiseman. In this talk, Dr. Wiseman will discuss his recent book, Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945-1970, that investigates the most challenging issue of Canadian defence in the postwar Arctic: the human body.