This week’s artifact is a pitchfork manufactured by the Welland Vale Manufacturing Company in St. Catharines. It was used by […]
Museum Classroom: Historic Moments in Canada – Commemorating Contribution and Sacrifice (I/S)
Explore the significance of the contributions and sacrifices Canadian men and women made while serving in WWII.
Museum Chat Live! 507 – 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe
In this episode of Museum Chat Live! we are talking to Mayor Walter Sendzik who tells us about his trip to the Netherlands and Bergen op Zoom in October 2019 to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands and the contributions of local soldiers in that campaign. Kathleen Powell and Adrian Petry will also chat about St. Catharines and the home front during the Second World War and about how the city welcomed its soldiers home to the community.
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?
Ask Alicia – Prisoner of War John D. Hills
Dear Alicia, Do you have any information about a man named Jack Hills of St. Catharines who was a Prisoner […]