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“Anxious To Be Restored”: Managing War Neuroses In Interwar Canada, Heather Ellis
“Anxious To Be Restored”: Managing War Neuroses In Interwar Canada, Heather Ellis
Canadian Military History
Using newly available records from the Veterans Affairs Pension Files, doctors’ notes and Veterans’ Hospital records, this article explores how war neurosis was simultaneously a personal and public event. Veterans were required to describe symptoms that breached masculine ideals to demonstrate that their disability impacted their daily lives. Ex-servicemen were caught in a delicate balance between following the soldier ideal and describing their symptoms accurately. War neurosis not only impacted veterans in the private examining room of the pension administrator it also affected their ability to find and maintain employment and the lives of their family members. The more public …
“When Wartime Friends Meet”: Great War Veteran Culture And The (Ab)Use Of Alcohol, Jonathan F. Vance
“When Wartime Friends Meet”: Great War Veteran Culture And The (Ab)Use Of Alcohol, Jonathan F. Vance
Canadian Military History
After the First World War, Canadian veterans created a culture that celebrated the camaraderie, sense of purpose, and light-hearted moments of their experience as soldiers. Much like the trench culture of the war years, it poked fun at misfortune, satirized the enemy, and presumed that a stiff drink could make any situation better. Veteran culture provided ex-soldiers in the 1920s and 1930s with the mutual support they needed to get through difficult times, but it was a milieu in which the excessive consumption of alcohol was accepted and even encouraged. This had little impact on the settled, well-adjusted veteran but …
“Condemned To Be Free:” The Dilemmas Of Canadian Civilians In Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, Brian Edgar
“Condemned To Be Free:” The Dilemmas Of Canadian Civilians In Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, Brian Edgar
Canadian Military History
Enemy occupation after military defeat is generally seen as a situation in which the defeated are deprived of choices. This is obviously correct, but it is also true that they are sometimes faced with dilemmas harsher and more significant than those of peacetime. The study of the experience of Canadian civilians during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong casts light on some of these dilemmas. This article begins with an account of the Hong Kong Canadians on the eve of war, showing them to consist of two distinct but linked communities—the Chinese and the European. It goes on to describe …
Work And Madness: Overworked Men And Fears Of Degeneration, 1860s-1910s, Amy Milne-Smith
Work And Madness: Overworked Men And Fears Of Degeneration, 1860s-1910s, Amy Milne-Smith
History Faculty Publications
The very things that provided a Victorian man’s status, his self worth, and his identity could also lead him to lose his mind. This paradox is at the heart of this essay. Men breaking down under the pressure of hard work was disruptive in a society that was dependent on that overwork. This idea preoccupied Victorians, who worried that the pace of modern life could lead to broken nerves, low spirits, nervous collapse, and even suicide. Both doctors and sufferers believed that overtaxing one’s brain could lead to a complete mental breakdown requiring institutionalization. As asylums filled up with incurable …
“Battleground Africa: Cold War In The Congo, 1960–1965 (Book Review)” By Lise Namikas, Brian Bertosa
“Battleground Africa: Cold War In The Congo, 1960–1965 (Book Review)” By Lise Namikas, Brian Bertosa
Canadian Military History
Review of Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965 by Lise Namikas
“Such Want Of Gentlemanly Conduct:” The General Court Martial Of Lieutenant John De Hertel, Eamonn O'Keeffe
“Such Want Of Gentlemanly Conduct:” The General Court Martial Of Lieutenant John De Hertel, Eamonn O'Keeffe
Canadian Military History
Analysis of the newly discovered general court martial of Canadian Fencibles Lieutenant John de Hertel offers a remarkable glimpse into the workings of War of 1812-era military justice. After exploring the backgrounds of the principal actors, this article employs witness testimony to vividly reconstruct the fateful altercation between Lieutenants Peach and de Hertel on 22 May 1815 at Fort York in modernday Toronto. Subsequent attempts at conciliation, the trial itself, and de Hertel’s vitriolic defence are examined in detail, followed by concluding reflections on the insight gained through study of this affair and the potential of courts martial as historical …
Reconciliation: All Our Relations, Kelly Laurila
Reconciliation: All Our Relations, Kelly Laurila
Consensus
The author shares the national, community (local) and individual discourses taking place as they pertain to the reconciliation process that is happening with Indigenous and Settler peoples in Canada. Importantly, the author sheds light on a multitude of local efforts of reconciliation happening that have not yet made it to academic discourses and publications, but which could be instrumental in contributing to reconciliation. A key component emphasized in these reconciliation efforts and which could be the catalyst for change, is the importance of relationships. Stemming from an Indigenous epistemological perspective, the creation of positive relationships with others and ‘all our …
The Barrier And The Damage Done Converting The Canadian Mounted Rifles To Infantry, December 1915, William Stewart
The Barrier And The Damage Done Converting The Canadian Mounted Rifles To Infantry, December 1915, William Stewart
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Book Review Supplement Autumn 2003
Book Review Supplement Autumn 1998
“I Will Meet The World With A Smile And A Joke” Canadian Soldiers’ Humour In The Great War, Tim Cook
“I Will Meet The World With A Smile And A Joke” Canadian Soldiers’ Humour In The Great War, Tim Cook
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Culinary Imagination As A Survival Tool Ethel Mulvany And The Changi Jail Prisoners Of War Cookbook, Singapore, 1942-1945, Suzanne Evans
Culinary Imagination As A Survival Tool Ethel Mulvany And The Changi Jail Prisoners Of War Cookbook, Singapore, 1942-1945, Suzanne Evans
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
The British Garrison And Montreal Society, 1830-1850, Robert Vineberg
The British Garrison And Montreal Society, 1830-1850, Robert Vineberg
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
History Of The Silver Cross Medal, Suzanne Evans
History Of The Silver Cross Medal, Suzanne Evans
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Sir Arthur Currie And The Legacy Of The Great War: Letters From The Archives Of The Canadian War Museum, Mark Osborne Humphries
Sir Arthur Currie And The Legacy Of The Great War: Letters From The Archives Of The Canadian War Museum, Mark Osborne Humphries
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Military Aid To The Civil Authority In The Mid-19th Century New Brunswick, J. Brent Wilson
Military Aid To The Civil Authority In The Mid-19th Century New Brunswick, J. Brent Wilson
Canadian Military History
During the mid–19th century, the role of the military in New Brunswick began to change. Although its primary function remained defence against invasion, the civil power called on it with increasing frequency; first the British regulars and later the militia assisted in capacities ranging from fighting fires to policing. Nevertheless, as New Brunswick changed from colony to province, the militia did not automatically replace the imperial garrison. Civil authorities were reluctant to call on it, and volunteers assumed this role only after the regulars departed in 1869. This article first examines the types of disorder that occurred between the 1830s …
“Bloody Provost”: Discipline During The War Of 1812, John R. Grodzinski
“Bloody Provost”: Discipline During The War Of 1812, John R. Grodzinski
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Colonel Wily’S Brainchild: The Origins Of The Canadian War Museum In Ottawa’S Cartier Square Drill Hall, 1880–1896, Cameron Pulsifer
Colonel Wily’S Brainchild: The Origins Of The Canadian War Museum In Ottawa’S Cartier Square Drill Hall, 1880–1896, Cameron Pulsifer
Canadian Military History
Since 1996 the Canadian War Museum (CWM) has been a major partner with the Wilfrid Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in the production of Canadian Military History. The CWM was described in 1991 by a government appointed Task Force on Military Museum Collections in Canada as the country’s “flagship military museum,” but, as the report made clear, the museum lacked many of the essential resources for that role. The CWM occupied cramped and antiquated quarters on Sussex Drive in Ottawa and was receiving only about 125,000 visitors a year.1 Since then, in May 2005, it has …
Toronto’S Reponse To The Outbreak Of War, 1939, Ian Miller
Toronto’S Reponse To The Outbreak Of War, 1939, Ian Miller
Canadian Military History
Canadian historians have paid little attention to the transition from peace to war in late August and early September 1939. Jonathan Vance’s award-winning Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War (1997) does a marvelous job of surveying attitudes towards war in the wake of the Great War, but it does not expand into the start of the Second. C.P. Stacey’s official history, Six Years of War, devotes only minimal space to exploring the transition, focusing instead on the activities of Canadian servicemen and women. The dozens of militia histories written by the units after the war …
Crossing The Melfa River, Edward J. Perkins
Crossing The Melfa River, Edward J. Perkins
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
William Drummond And The Battle Of Fort Erie, Donald E. Graves
William Drummond And The Battle Of Fort Erie, Donald E. Graves
Canadian Military History
The officers and men of the British army that defended Canada from American invasion during the War of 1812 knew they were “forgotten soldiers.” Fighting in a distant and secondary theatre, far from the gaze of a government and public pre-occupied with events on the continent, especially in Spain, they took a somewhat perverse pride in their status as outcasts. As one quipped about the Duke of Wellington—“thank God he managed to do without us” at Waterloo. But they also took a particular pride in their own local heroes including such men as Gordon of the 1st Regiment of Foot, …
Relief Amid Chaos: The Story Of Canadian Pows Driving Red Cross, Hugh A. Halliday
Relief Amid Chaos: The Story Of Canadian Pows Driving Red Cross, Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
The Caribou Hut: Newfoundlanders, Servicemen, And The St. John’S Home Front During The Second World War, Kenneth Tam
The Caribou Hut: Newfoundlanders, Servicemen, And The St. John’S Home Front During The Second World War, Kenneth Tam
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.