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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
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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 …
Narrative Of The Volunteer Camp At Niagara, June 1871, Andrew Greenhill
Narrative Of The Volunteer Camp At Niagara, June 1871, Andrew Greenhill
Canadian Military History
Editor’s Introduction: The Canadian military as we know it emerged in the critical decades that immediately preceded and followed Confederation in 1867. While a number of accounts are available of militia officers’ experiences in these decades, so far we have missed the important perspective of rank and file. Recently, however, an interesting example of such a perspective has come to light and has been added to the collection of the Canadian War Museum (CWM). This is in the form of a short but insightful narrative, written by a Private Andrew Greenhill of Hamilton, Ontario’s 13th Battalion, Canadian Militia, describing his …
Name The Airfield, Anonymous
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
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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.
Sacrifice In Stained Glass: Memorial Windows Of The Great War, Jonathan F. Vance
Sacrifice In Stained Glass: Memorial Windows Of The Great War, Jonathan F. Vance
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
John Baillie Turner And The Ottawa Volunteer Field Battery, Hugh A. Halliday
John Baillie Turner And The Ottawa Volunteer Field Battery, Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
The Battle Of Rockhead, March 1871: Training For War In Mid-Victorian Halifax, Cameron Pulsifer
The Battle Of Rockhead, March 1871: Training For War In Mid-Victorian Halifax, Cameron Pulsifer
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Indian Days And Burmese Nights: Flying Beaufighters In Southeast Asia With 177 Raf Squadron, A. Sutherland Brown
Indian Days And Burmese Nights: Flying Beaufighters In Southeast Asia With 177 Raf Squadron, A. Sutherland Brown
Canadian Military History
This narrative is part of a longer one of personal reminiscences of my experiences in the RCAF during the Second World War and only concerns my operational tour flying Beaufighters with 177 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in Southeast Asia from early March 1944 until the end of the year. Preceding the operational tour I had spent two years training and waiting in Canada and the United Kingdom. During operational training at East Fortune near Edinburgh flying Beaufighter lis, I was crewed with Flight Sergeant A.J. Aldham, a reserved, slim, blonde Englishman as Observer (i.e. Navigator-wireless operator-gunner). Alf quickly established his …
A Canadian Soldier In The Great War: The Experiences Of Frank Maheux, Desmond Morton
A Canadian Soldier In The Great War: The Experiences Of Frank Maheux, Desmond Morton
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.