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Virtual Friends Forum Thursday September 21, 2023: “Operation Husky 2013: An Act of Extreme Remembrance”

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To Register, email the Friends [email protected] Mark Zuehlke is an award-winning author and generally considered to be one of Canada’s foremost popular military historians.  Mark’s Canadian Battle Series is an exhaustive recounting of the campaigns fought by Canadian troops during the Second World War. In 2014, Mark was awarded the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media in recognition of his role in popularizing Canadian history.  The Friends are very pleased and honoured to have Mark…

An Opportunity to Participate In Person at a Friends Forum

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Thursday, June 22nd, 20231:30 – 3:00 pmCWM Ateliers Rooms C&D Presentation in English Guest Speaker Dr. Andrew BurtchHistorian, Canadian War Museum  Topic: “War Games Exhibit The Curators Perspective “ Dr. Andrew Burtch is the Canadian War Museum’s post-1945 Historian. As curator of Gallery 4, he is responsible for all questions relating to conflicts from the beginning of the Cold War to the present day. He has worked to develop temporary and ongoing exhibitions about the Afghanistan war,…

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Thursday, May 25th, 20237:00-8:00 PM  Presentation in English In his second instalment of the history of the Chaussegros de Léry family, Jean-Pierre Raymond will continue the journey and elaborate on how the son of a Polish Count, influenced by Chaussegros de Léry would become an engineer, arrive in Canada as a immigrant and assist in the founding of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Jean-Pierre will also describe the engineering legacy of…

Join the Friends for a Special Friends Forum

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In Person Thursday, April 20th, 2023 1:30 – 3:00 pm CWM Ateliers Rooms C&D Presentation in English This event will also be Live Streamed via Zoom From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable…

Friends Virtual Forum – March 30th at 7pm (EST)

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ean-Pierre Raymond’s presentation will focus on the extraordinary legacy of one family of engineers in Canada, the Chaussegros de Léry Family. This family lineage includes 16 descendants that were military engineers that served in the First World War of which four became generals. A two-part presentation, Part 1 will focus on the King’s Engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, born in Québec City 300 years ago in 1723. He was the son-in-law of the Chief Engineer…

Friends Virtual Forum – March 2nd, 7 – 8pm (ET)

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Dr. Sean M. Maloney is a Professor of History at Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Historical Advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff during the war in Afghanistan. He previously served as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, the Canadian Army’s primary Cold War NATO commitment. Dr. Maloney has extensive field experience in the Balkans, particularly in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia from 1995 to 2001. His work on…

“Friends Forum” In Person Event – “Canadian Military Intelligence”

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Canadian Military Intelligence Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan by Dr. David Charters. Dr. David Charters draws upon original source documents and many interviews to provide a very comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence over the past 60 years. The book illustrates how a middle power, like Canada, can make a significant contribution to the intelligence community. Dr. Charters provides many insights on how Canadian intelligence has evolved over…

Friends Virtual Forum – “Strategic Nuclear Signalling during the Russo-Ukraine Crisis”

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EMail: [email protected] for Zoom link. Register before Oct 25th Dr. Sean M. Maloney is a Professor of History at Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Historical Advisor to the Chief of the Land Staff during the war in Afghanistan. He previously served as the historian for 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade, the Canadian Army’s primary Cold War NATO commitment.  Dr. Maloney has extensive field experience in the Balkans, particularly in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo…

“Friends Forum” In Person Event

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Christina Chowaniec Christina undertook the writing of this book after discovering her grandfather’s journal and learning that Canadian soldiers were stationed in Iceland. She has always been interested in military history. She came to realize that this was an untold piece of the Canadian war story that needed to be researched and written. She lives in Vancouver. In the summer of 1940 Canadians from the 2nd Division, including the Royal Regiment of Canada (RRC), the…

Virtual Friends Forum – May 19th, 2022

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The Friends are pleased to announce our third English Virtual Friends Forum presentation on: Thursday, 19 May, 2022. 7 – 8pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on Zoom. The guest speaker is Tyler Wentzell who will discuss; “The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion – how it formed, how it trained, and how it fought.” Tyler Wentzell is a historian, lawyer, and infantry officer.  He holds a masters degree in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and a law degree from…

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The Friends are pleased to announce our second English Virtual Friends Forum presentation on: Thursday, 28 April, 2022. 7 – 8pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on Zoom. The guest speaker is Dr. Geoffrey Jackson who teaches Military and Canadian History and Strategic Studies at Mount Royal University. Dr. Jackson’s talk will focus on the formation of two First World War divisions, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division and the Canadian 4th Division. Dr. Jackson will focus on how the…

Virtual Friends Forum – “Execution” Canada’s Best Second World War Novel?

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Colin McDougall, a decorated infantry officer veteran of the Italian campaign during the Second World War, returned home to Montreal deeply disturbed by his combat experience. In the early 1950s, he began writing a novel to affirm the moral value of his war service by remembering the execution of Private Harold Pringle, the only Canadian soldier shot by a firing squad of our nation during the war, a killing that was made a state secret…