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Guest Speaker – Ruth Stanley “The Tin Hats” When we think of soldiers during the Second World War, we think of combat troops. Soldiers, in fact, took on many roles in support of the war effort. This is the story of a different type of soldier. The Canadian Military, recognizing the need to raise and maintain the morale of its soldiers, formed soldier-led entertainment units. Their job was to entertain the troops wherever they might…
Thursday, November 27th Guest Speaker – Michel Gravel Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite During his talk, Mr Gravel will recount his extraordinary journey to identify the regimental aid posts of Captain Frederick Banting during the advance from Arras to Cambrai, September 1918. “Captain Fred Banting’s Field Hospital, 1918” To Register email the Friends atfcwm-amcg@friends-amis.org This Friends Forum is a great opportunity to meet one of Canada’s foremost historians on this topic.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025. 7:00 – 9:00 pm EDT “Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Canadian Hospital Ship During The Great War” Guest Speaker – Nate Hendley On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military — was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. There were 258 people on board at the time: a British crew and 94 members…
Guest Speaker – Stephen J. ThorneSenior Staff Writer Legion Magazine “A Scribe with Soldiers in Afghanistan” In words and pictures, former war correspondent Stephen Thorne recounts his experiences and those of the soldiers he covered for The Canadian Press in the early days of the Afghanistan war, from their first combat assault since Korea to the first wounded and KIAs. Stephen J. Thorne is a writer, photographer, editor and broadcaster who has reported extensively from…
Guest Speaker – Dr. Vivian McAlister O.C. “Sir Andrew MacPhail100 Years Later” Thursday, May 29th, 20257:00 – 9:00 pm EDT Presentation in English One hundred years ago, the history of Canada’s medical services in the First World War was published. Medical services during the war had been challenged by several controversies. Although the single authored history added to the controversy, it has remained the reference text. Its author, Sir Andrew MacPhail, was the leading figure in…
“The British Channel Islands, WW2 and the Canadian Red Cross.The Impact and the Legacy” Uniquely, the Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles occupied by the enemy during the Second World War. After the German’s lightening advance through Western Europe in the summer of 1940, Guernsey, Jersey and the smaller islands fell into Nazi hands without a fight. Five dark years of occupation followed, during which Islanders had to face and overcome many…
Thursday, March 20th, 2025 Guest Speaker Colonel Charles Davies (Retired)True North Strong? A Canadian Citizen’s Guide to National Defence aims to provide ordinary Canadians with a plain-language “guidebook” to help them make informed judgements about defence issues. It also offers insights that will help them assess how well (or not) the governments they elect are managing defence resources and policies. It does not try to influence how they look at the institution, or suggest what they should think…
Guest Speaker – Denis Renaud “The Bracelet of HarryEdward Fox” A Case Study for Canadian Battlefield Archeology” A bracelet found in a slit trench in Normandy in 2014 led to the identification of Harry Edward Fox, a Canadian Gunner who fought during the Second World war and returned to Canada.Denis Renaud identified this soldier in 2017 and connected with his family. Sadly, Harry passed away in 2005. In 2023,Denis Renaud published the biography of Harry Edward…
Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 Guest Speaker – Tim Cook – The Good Allies From our country’s most important war historian, a gripping account of the turbulent relationship between Canada and the US during the Second World War. The two nations entered the war amidst rivalry and mutual suspicion, but learned to fight together before emerging triumphant and bound by an alliance that has lasted to this day. The Good Allies is a masterful account of how…
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Guest Speaker – Urs Obrist. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the 20th century. From its construction in 1961 until the wall crumbled with the onslaught of the collapse of the former Soviet Empire, the Berlin Wall represented repression and the denial of basic human rights. Guest speaker, Urs Obrist, will begin his presentation with the origins of the Wall and its significance, both from a global perspective…
Thursday, September 26th, 2024 Guest Speaker Johanna Lemke “Enemy Under Our Roof”A Childhood Memoir from the Nazi-occupied Netherlands 1940 – 1945 “My friends said a bomb could kill me or I might starve to death. They saidmy father could be dragged away to the enemy’s concentration camps. But theywere wrong.” The truth will surprise you! Johanna will be reading excerpts from her graphic and moving memoir, “Enemy Under Our Roof”. With the help of thirty…
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