Latest Codebreakers Podcast Episodes

Coming Soon! New Podcast: Strong and Free

Record of Service - September 23, 2021 16:49 - 1 minute
The Strong and Free podcast series is part of a larger Black History education campaign created by Historica Canada. Along with the podcast series, Historica Canada offers a video series, an education guide, and several new entries on The Canadian Encyclopedia about Black History in Can...

New Podcast - A Place to Belong: A History of Multiculturalism in Canada

Record of Service - May 18, 2021 19:14 - 44 seconds
A Place to Belong is part of a larger education campaign created by Historica Canada and made possible in part by the Government of Canada. Along with the podcast series, Historica Canada also offers a video series and an education guide about the history of multiculturalism in Canada. ...

New Podcast: Residential Schools

Record of Service - February 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 minute
The Residential Schools podcast series is part of a larger awareness campaign created by Historica Canada and funded by the Government of Canada. Along with the podcast series, Historica Canada also offers a video series, an education guide, and several new entries on The Canadian Encyc...

D-Day

Record of Service - November 11, 2019 06:00 - 12 minutes
June 6, 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, France during the Second World War. This bonus episode of Record of Service, Historica Canada’s new podcast, features the lived experiences of veterans who participated in the operation through testimonies from...

The Prisoner

Record of Service - November 05, 2019 06:00 - 13 minutes
Edward Carter-Edwards served on a Halifax heavy bomber with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He was one of 168 Allied airmen temporarily imprisoned in the Buchenwald Concentration camp after his aircraft was shot down over German-occupied France. Listen, then ...

The Tomkins Brothers

Record of Service - October 29, 2019 05:00 - 13 minutes
Following in the footsteps of his brothers and many members of his Métis community, Frank Tomkins enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1945. His story touches on his family’s connection to the North-West Resistance, Cree Code Talkers, and the benefits denied to Indigenous veterans after the...

Do No Harm

Record of Service - October 22, 2019 05:00 - 21 minutes
These stories from Canadian medical personnel serving during the Second World War and a sly ship doctor treating sailors during the Korean War highlight gruesome and absurd moments of both conflicts. Listen, then request a Memory Project speaker at http://www.thememoryproject.com/book...

Codebreakers

Record of Service - October 15, 2019 05:00 - 16 minutes
Thousands of women served in intelligence facilities like Britain’s Bletchley Park and Canada’s Camp X during the Second World War. The Memory Project Archive contains stories from women who were recruited for these secret roles through the British Women’s Royal Naval Service and the Ca...

New Podcast: Record of Service

Record of Service - October 08, 2019 15:50 - 1 minute
Coming soon! Our Record of Service podcast, with remarkable stories from codebreakers and code talkers, medical personnel and prisoners of war, is almost here. We're excited to share the first episode with you next week: stay tuned!