GWCA Presents: Dr. Alyssa Cundy – March 15 @ 7.30 p.m.

March 11th, 2016 | Categories: Events
Doing Our Bit - Dr. Alyssa Cundy
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Alyssa Cundy graduated with her PhD in History from Wilfrid Laurier University in October 2015.  Dr. Cundy specializes in the naval blockade of...

GWCA Presents: Dr. Roger Sarty – March 8 @ 7.30 p.m.

March 4th, 2016 | Categories: Events
Doing Our Bit - Great War Research
Professor Roger Sarty is one of Canada's leading naval historians, specializing in the history of Canada's Navy and coastal defences.  His research interests include British, Canadian...

GWCA Presents: Evan Habkirk - March 1, 2016 @ 7.30 p.m.

February 24th, 2016 | Categories: Events
114th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force - Brock"s Rangers
Evan Habkirk is completing his PhD with the University of Western Ontario’s History Department, with research assistantships in their Anthropology, Kinesiology, and First Nations Studies...

GWCA Presents: Dr. Geoff Hayes – February 23 @ 7.30 p.m.

February 17th, 2016 | Categories: Events
First World War Battlefield Mapping
Professor Geoff Hayes’ current research interests lie in ‘deep mapping’ Canada’s world war experience.  By drawing upon undergraduate and graduate students and partnering...

2016 GWCA 4th Annual Lecture Series Calendar

January 17th, 2016 | Categories: Events
2016 GWCA 4th Annual Lecture Series Calendar
Since February 2013, one of our signature events has been the Great War Lecture series at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University. The series has traditionally combined avocational and...

Our Local Angels of Mercy: Insights into the lives and service of two local nursing sisters during the Great War

November 25th, 2015 | Categories: Events
Meghan E. Cameron, a History and Civics teacher at BCI, will be examining the key role of nursing sisters from the local area who were part of the Great War. Ms. Cameron will give a brief overview of...

Doing Our Bit, by Vincent Ball - Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, Brantford, Ontario - Two Showtimes

November 4th, 2015 | Categories: Events
Crossing Generations and traveling through time, Expositor Reporter, Vincent Ball’s new script captures the adventure and tragedy of the First World War. 
 
Set against...

Doing Our Bit: Great War Artifact Digitization & Research - September 26 & 27

September 22nd, 2015 | Categories: Events
Alfred John Mott
Bring in your photographs, letters, medals and other artifacts to have them digitized! Digitization (photographing or scanning of images or items) of artifacts allows you to keep the artifact, while...

"Doing Our Bit" Auditions

August 5th, 2015 | Categories: Events
"Doing Our Bit"
The Brant Theatre Workshops will be holding auditions for an upcoming WWI, production written by Brantford Expositor Reporter Vincent Ball and premiering on Nov 10 at the Sanderson Centre. A wide...

Repatriation of Private David Andrew Lickers Victory Medal

July 25th, 2015 | Categories: Events
Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2 pm - Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario
The Great War Centenary Association – Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations, encourages the public to attend this very special event at the Woodland Cultural Centre; a homecoming of ...

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