2020 Seminar Program

  • Private G.F. Mingot and the CEF: Britta Gunderson-Bryden
  • Unique History of Canadian General Hospital No. 5: Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • Resistance by Coastal First Nations during the Great War:Dr. James Kempling
  • Road Warriors: Women Ambulance Drivers in the Great War: Linda Quiney
  • The Military-Scientific Revolution in the First World War: Dr. David Zimmerman
  • The Roosevelts in the Great War: William Schaub
  • Oregon’s Generals: Mark McLain
  • Sites of War Memory and Guardians of Remembrance: Dr. Geoff Bird
  • Remembering Well? Canada and the Great War Centenary: Dr. Geoff Bird
  • Mountains, Memory and the Great War: Mary Sanseverino
  • Armistice to Versailles: Scott Usborne

Previous Years

  • The Legacy of the Great War: Dr. Tim Cook
  • Shelbourne Memorial Avenue: Ray Travers and Alan MacLeod
  • Secret Treaties: Salvatore Compango
  • Mons, Belgium, 11 November 2018: John Azar and Keith Maxwell
  • Canada’s Great War Military Hospitals: Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • Canadian Great War Project Update: Jim Kempling and Greg Norman
  • Beaverbrook Vimy Prize Program: John T. Evans (Student, Mt Douglas H.S.)
  • Punjab in the Aftermath of the Great War: Dr. Chandar Sundaram
  • My Grandfather’s Story: Allan Hart
  • The Kaiser’s Battle: Scott Usborne
  • Churchill and Fisher: Dr Barry Gough
  • Forty-Seven Days (Meusse-Argonne): Dr. Mitch Yokelson
  • Mobility and the “100 Days”: Rollie Keith
  • Three Women “Just Doing their Bit”: Bart Armtrong
  • The Sidney Rich Project (Documentary): Cliff Caprani
  • The Burial of Private Reginald Johnston: Sergeant Dan MacKenzie
  • Vimy Revisited: Ken MacLeod
  • They Also Served—Animals in the Great War: Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • Hill 70: Peter Broznitsky
  • The Real McCrae: Susan Raby-Dunne
  • Great War Artillery: Maj-Gen. (Ret’d) Stuart McDonald
  • Bedside Warriors: VADs in the First World War: Dr. Linda Quiney
  • Winston Churchill in the Great War: Bill Schaub
  • The Great Cavalry Debate: Scott Usborne
  • My Remarkable Grandmother: Claudia Berry
  • Encouraging Enlistment in Canada, by Chris Gainor
  • General Quiquandon’s Scheme of Defense at Ypres, April 1915, by Allan Lougheed
  • Collishaw & Company: Canadians in the Royal Naval Air Service, 1914-1918, by J. Allan Snowie
  • Japanese in the CEF, by Dave Mitsui
  • Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada’s Great War Memorial Statuary, by Alan MacLeod
  • You can’t get away from the guns, by Jim Kempling
  • Pints, Patriotism, and Stolen Votes, by Greg Evans
  • British Submarine Operations in the Great War, by Robert W. Mackay
  • Saanich Remembers World War One Project, by Caroline Duncan
  • Vic High Project, by Wendy Burleson
  • From Alberta to Avion – The Identification of Private Lawless, by Laurel Clegg, Casualty Identification Coordinator, Directorate of History and Heritage
  • The British Columbia Militia on the Eve of the Great War, by Dr. James Wood, University of Victoria
  • We Went to the Great War, by St. Margaret’s School
  • Remembering What and How, by Dr. Dean Oliver, Director, Research and Exhibitions, Canadian War Museum
  • USS Tuscania, by John Runyan
  • Vic High Trees, by Barry Gough
  • Barker Memorial, by Wayne Ralph
  • The Southwestern Front in the Upper Soca/Isonzo Today, by Mark McLain
  • A Dynamic Rainbow and her Conspicuous Shadow, August 1914, by Jon Johnson
  • Rinks to Regiments: Hockey Hall-of-Famers in the Great War, by Alan MacLeod
  • Battlefront Nurses Salonika, 1915-1919, by Maureen Duffus
  • From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-19, by Dr. Ben Isitt
  • Quentin Roosevelt – A Hero’s Journey, by Alan Toelle
  • The CWGC in North America, by Dominique Boulais
  • Canada and the Last 100 Days of WWI, by Colonel (Ret’d) Keith Maxwell
  • Life on the Battlefields 94 Years Later, by Charlotte Cardoen
  • The St. Eloi Craters April 1916: Confused Sacrifice, by Steve Newman
  • The Canadian Cavalry Brigade in WWI, by Bob Mackay
  • “Half-Starved and Brutalized” – Canadian POWs in the Great War, by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • The Kaiser’s U-boats, by Dick Church
  • Mutiny at Etaples & Kinmel Park, by Ken MacLeod
  • Roads to Remembrance, by Ray Travers
  • The Italian Front, by John Azar
  • Cartoons, Sketches, and Paintings of World War One, by Gavin Cooper
  • “Custodians” – Temporary Possessors of Medals, by Ken Welte
  • The Siege of Antwerp, by Sidney Allinson
  • The US Second Division Attack at Blac Mont, October 1918, by Tom Gudmestad
  • Louis James Lipsett, GOC 3rd Canadian Division, by Atholl Sutherland Brown
  • British Submarine Operations in the Great War, by Dick Church
  • Canadians Shot for Desertion, 1916-18: Glimpses in the Dark, by Alan MacLeod
  • The Generals, by Jack Patten
  • Hill 70: Forgotten Victory, by Peter Broznitsky
  • Sinking of the Lusitania, by Sal Compagno
  • Alsace-Lorraine: Traveling the Battles of the French and American Armies, by Bob Denison
  • Canadian Women On Active Service in the Great War, by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • Evolvement of British War Aims, by Len Shurtleff
  • Forestry, Pioneer, and Railway Troops in the C.E.F., by Peter Broznitsky
  • The Western Front Then and Now, by Jack Patten
  • American Recipients of the Victoria Cross in World War One, by Wayne Ralph
  • The South Africans’ Ordeal at Delville Wood, by Sidney Allinson
  • Two Wheels to the Front, by Mary Sanseverino
  • Americans in the CEF, by Sal Compagno
  • The Short, Unhappy Life of the 41st Battalion, by Peter Broznitsky
  • Silent Witnesses, by Jack Patten
  • Echoes of War in Victoria, by John Azar
  • The Saskatchewan War Memorial, by Lloyd Jones
  • The Zeebrugge Raid, by Sidney Allinson
  • PPCLI University Companies at Mount Sorrel, by Stephen Newman
  • “Sleep On, Dear Son, In a Soldier’s Grave,” by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
  • Gallipoli: Battles and Australian War Artists, by Bob Denison
  • Russians and Ukrainians In The CEF, by Peter Broznitsky
  • The Easter Uprising – Dublin 1916, by Sidney Allinson
  • Searching For Harry’s Last Resting Place, by Nigel Argent
  • US 26th Division on the Chemin des Dames, by Tom Gudmestad
  • The Chinese Labour Corps, by Judy Maxwell
  • The Great War novels of George Godwin, by Robert Thomson
  • The German Southwest Africa Campaign, by Sidney Allinson
  • The Royal Newfoundland Regiment, by Wayne Ralph
  • The Belgian Army Bomb Disposal Squad in the Ypres Salient, by Tom Gudmestad
  • The PPCLI and Two Unknowns, by Stephen Newman
  • The British 1915 Battles in Artois and French Flanders, by Bob Denison
  • The Underground War on the Western Front at Loos, Chemin-des-Dames, and Verdun, by Tom Gudmestad
  • Fort Douamont and the Maginot Line, by Christina Holstein
  • The Battle of Amiens, August 1918, by James McWilliams
  • The 1st CMR and William Bishop, by Wayne Ralph
  • WWI War artists, by Bob Denison
  • 5th Field Regiment, RCA, by Dale Murray
  • The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, by Geoff Bridger
  • The Canadian Army Medical Corps, by Don Thomas
  • The Battle of Verdun, by Christina Holstein
  • Researching Forgotten Heroes, by Geoff Bridger
  • The Canadian Letters and Images Project, by Dr. Stephen Davies
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918 CD-ROM, by Geoff Bridger
  • IWM Trench Map Archive CD-ROM, by Bill Ince