Battle of Britain: Canadian Airmen in Their Finest Hour – by Ted Barris “Never in the field of human conflict…” are Churchill’s words that set the 113 days of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 apart from all others, as the greatest aerial battle in history. As the German Luftwaffe sought to destroy the […]
Guest Speaker: Janet Somerville Topic: Martha Gelhorn - War correspondent and Hemingway’s 3rd wife Janet Somerville has done extensive research on the novelist and pioneering war correspondent Martha Gelhorn and offers us a glimpse into her remarkable life. Due to her discoveries during her Gelhorn research, Somerville contributed to the ongoing esteemed Hemingway Letters project. […]
From Paris with Love From its start during the Roman period, the city of Paris has fascinated us for more than 2000 years! It is the story of a city whose people thrive on passion, struggle, artistic and literary achievement, innovation, and unprecedented influence. Experiencing the cycle of rags to riches many times along the way, its […]
Katherine (‘Kat’) Downey M.ED. CEA Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, Oakville This month, we are delighted to welcome Katherine (‘Kat’) Downey, a local Funeral Director responsible for funeral pre-arrangement planning. Born and raised in Oakville, Kat has been associated with Kopriva Taylor since 2000 and was affiliated with the Funeral Service Education Program at Humber College as a Sessional Professor. Today, Kat is educating & informing […]
Topic: A Wounded History of the First World War Brief Description: Eric Story is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University and Historian-in-Residence at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. His research focuses on the long legacies of the First World War in Canada, and he […]
