Photo courtesy of The War Amps
Dr. Eric Story recent graduate of the Tri-U History Program, is now Historian-in-Residence at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published widely on the legacies of the First World War in Canada, focusing on medical patients, disabled veterans, and Indigenous communities. His current project examines the beginnings of the disability rights movement in the early twentieth century.
More than 65,000 Canadians died fighting the Great War. Often forgotten in the tally of wartime sacrifice are the 180,000 military service members who suffered some form of wounding, injury or illness on the battlefields of the Western Front. From the war-torn landscapes of Europe to post-war life in Canada, Eric Story follows the journey of thousands of men and women who paid an entirely different price than did the dead in service to the country.
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 our Museum Everywhere Portal.
Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
