RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1 artwork

RCRM Speakers Series - Season 1

10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -

RCRM Speakers Series is a new program launched by The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum. The goal of the program is to engage with patrons by means of academic research across the country. Scholars of history or history buffs, well-known authors or museum curators were invited for a talk of their choice. For the inaugural year, two anniversaries are in focus: 120 years since the Battle of Paardeberg, during the South African War and the 75th anniversary from the end of the Second World War. The talks are intended as a monthly public event throughout 2020, recorded live in view of producing this podcast. Guest-speakers accompany their talks with images, moving or still; voice over is added to clarify the use of support material as necessary. When it is possible, the Q&As at the end of the presentation are included.
The COVID-19 pandemic was declared only two weeks before the third event, which forced us into a different approach. The third event of the series is cancelled, but the program continues in April 2020 as an audiovisual production streamed on the museum YouTube channel. Until the quarantine is revoked, 2020 Speakers Series remains an on-line event.
Program Director Mark Vogelsang from Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology recorded the public events and continues to do so until we complete the 2020 Speakers Series podcast.

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Episodes

A Cenotaph for the Community: How Londoners Have Remembered the First World War

November 26, 2020 23:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

The last episode of the RCRM Speakers Series – Season 1 will feature Katrina Pasierbek, a PhD Candidate in History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON. Katrina has taught myth, memory, and public history courses at Laurier and King's University College at Western University. An educator both inside and outside the classroom, Katrina also leads overseas battlefield tours of First and Second World War sites across England, Belgium, and France. Before enrolling at Wilfried Laurier, Ka...

Murder Comes to Westminster: The Killing of Pte. A. Buttery

November 17, 2020 15:29 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB

The RCRM Speakers Series has now reached Episode 9, with Doctoral Candidate in history, Heather Ellis. Heather completed her Honours BA at the University of Toronto in 2012 and her MA in History at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Hayes in 2016. Her dissertation, “Aftershocks: The Psychological Cost of the Great War”, explores how shell-shocked veterans were cared for by family members, medical practitioners and the government. As we are approaching Remembranc...

“You, Sir Frederick, Will be Chairman: Military Research and the NRC (1937-1941)”

October 15, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

Grant Maltman, Curator of Banting House National Historic Site of Canada, is a graduate from The University of Western Ontario with more than 30-year experience in the cultural resource management and heritage presentation field. His journey started at the local Banting Secondary School when, as a student, he presented the Canadian Diabetes Association with a cheque from the student body for the development of the Banting House Museum. Ten years later he became the museum’s first paid employ...

Stanley Barracks. The Life and Times of Toronto’s Military Garrison

September 17, 2020 22:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

For episode 7 of The RCRM Speakers Series, we have invited Dr Aldona Sendzikas to speak about “Stanley Barracks. The Life and Times of Toronto’s Military Garrison.” Dr. Sendzikas is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Western University, where she teaches 20th century U.S. History, Military History, and American Studies.  She is the former Assistant Curator of Historic Fort York in Toronto, and former curator of the WWII submarines USS Bowfin (SS-287) at Pearl Harbor and USS ...

Hard Labour: Beyond the Internet Search

August 13, 2020 22:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

Before announcing episode 6 of The RCRM Speakers Series, the museum wishes to acknowledge all our loyal followers of this program. The past four months have brought changes and unrest, but they also opened large doors in the cyberspace. A big thank you to all those who downloaded episodes in Canada, US, France, UK, Germany, Australia, Dominican Republic, Belgium, Ireland and Bahrain. Our museum has produced digital content more than ever, and we encourage you to continue engaging with us via...

The Aerodrome of Democracy: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Southwestern Ontario

July 09, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

A graduate of University of Western Ontario with degrees in history and education, Michael Baker is the Manager of Museums and Archives for the County of Elgin. Michael is well known to the regional historians as the Collections Curator at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, and the Curator of Regional History at Museum London, but also as the editor of Downtown London: Layers of Time (1999) and the co-editor with Hilary Bates Neary, of 100 Fascinating Londoners and Street Names of London – An Illustr...

First Canadian Army and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps in April 1945

June 11, 2020 22:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

In this episode, The RCRM Speakers Series brings forward the aftermath of German surrender on 8 May 1945. In the weeks following this event, the First Canadian Army switched from combat mode to a very different type of operations: the disarmament of thousands of enemy troops, and the care for the civil population, at the time deprived of both, liberty and food. In the process, Canadian soldiers discovered Nazi camps and Holocaust survivors abandoned within. We have invited a Doctoral candid...

Eagles over Husky: The Allied Air Forces and the Sicilian Campaign, 14 May to 17 August 1943

May 07, 2020 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

Alexander Fitzgerald Black has an MA in Military History from the University of New Brunswick and another MA in Public History from the University of Western Ontario. He presently works as a historian with the Juno Beach Centre Association and is interested in researching the Canadian military history in general, particularly air power in the Second World War, with a special focus on the Mediterranean. In 2014 he published "Eagles over Husky: The Allied Air Forces and the Sicilian Campaign, ...

Canadian Protestant Rhetoric and the War in South Africa

April 17, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

On February 21st 2020, The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum opened a new section in the permanent gallery featuring, amongst others, the First Contingent South Africa. This unit sailed overseas in support of the British Empire who had invaded two independent republics of Protestant Dutch origins, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (known as “Boers” hence the designation Anglo-Boer War). There was lively debate in the Canadian parliament, and intense pressure over Wilfried Laurier’s cabine...

Steve McQueen on a Motorbike: The Great Escape and Popular Culture

April 16, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

Steve McQueen on a Motorbike: The Great Escape and Popular Culture is Jonathan Vance’s topic. John Sturges' Great Escape, a popular war movie from 1963 is Vance’s pretext to look deeper into how film productions distort, mislead, even fake, historical fact. The movie is based on a compelling true story of 200 men of the Royal Air Force who planned to escape from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoners of war camp. The prisoners were hoping to pass beyond the barbed wire through tunnels, which th...