Events

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.

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.

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is one of Canada’s foremost experts on Arctic history and contemporary Northern policy. His research explores the evolution of Canada’s domestic strategies for the North and its international relationships with other Arctic and non-Arctic states. He is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Study of the Canadian North at Trent University and the Network Lead for North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN).