On today’s episode we’re sharing “Our Gallant Employees: Corporate Commemoration in Port-War Canada,” with special guest Jonathan Vance.
Museum Chat Live! E901 – Finding Home: Tales from the StoryLab 1
In this 3-episode series, host Sean Dineley lets a sampling of long-time St. Catharines residents do most of the talking. […]
Stories From the Front: St Catharines’ Wartime Sources Part Four
John D. Hills was taken prisoner of war by the Germans after the raid at Dieppe in 1942. He remained a prisoner until his liberation in 1945.
Museum Chat Live! E606 – In Conversation with Tim Cook, Historian and Author
On this episode of Museum Chat Live! We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Tim Cook, who is a historian at the Canadian War Museum and author of 11 books on Canadian Military History in the 20th Century. In this interview with Tim Cook, our Curator, Kathleen Powell talks to him about his new book – The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada’s Second World War.
Yearbook Flip: Into the Second World War
September 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the Second World War. In the midst of the 1930s and Great Depression, political tensions in Europe grew strong enough for Canadians to feel the tremors. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had been in power in Germany since 1933 and European powers, still recovering from the devastation of the Great War only two decades earlier, were willing to do whatever they could to avoid the outbreak of another war. The murmurings of impending conflict in Europe heard by the ears of St. Catharines’ youth?