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Pictures in Oshawa Nov 11, 2009
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WW 2 NFB Film on Food and War
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Food, Weapon of Conquest
Watch this video on nfb.ca
This 1940s wartime newsreel shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries that have been forced to hand over their farm produce to Germany, leaving their own populations hungry. Part of the Canada Carries On series.
Great Educational Resource
Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-09-01T13:48:28+00:00302009bUTCTue, 01 Sep 2009 13:48:28 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found a great educational resource today developed by the founder of Wikipedia, Dr. Larry Sanger
The site is called Watchhow
The site states..
…imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos.
Just think: hundreds of thousands of [...]
Oshawa Peacekeepers Day-1st Annual August 9th, 2009
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William Sam Magee: Memories of WW 2
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Story One Hundred and Two: 1940 French Canadian Guards of Buckingham Palace
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London 1940
A news reel illustrating how French Canadians soldiers replaced the Welsh Guards at Buckingham Palace
more about "1940 French Canadian Guards of Buckin…", posted with vodpod
Story One Hundred: Canadians as Peacekeepers
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During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson – later Canada’s 14th Prime Minister brought into common use the term peacekeeping
Since 1947, Canadian Forces have been involved in 72 international operations leading up to the declaration of the [...]
Story Ninety-Nine: Sex, Love and War
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Over two million allies soldiers were stationed in wartime Britain, over 500,000 Canadians were stationed in Britain between 1939 and 1945, combined with the 1 1/2 million American men, these men had a variety of affairs with local British women.
The BBC series Sex, Love and War details the stories of British women and their [...]
Story Ninety-Eight: Treason
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In 1944 the Nazi created the Britisches Freikorps or British Free Corps which was the brainchild of John Amery a son of a British cabinet minister. This Nazi recruitment effort focused on recruiting POW’s which included three Canadians.
Edwin Barnard Martin of the Essex Scottish Regiment(Captured at Dieppe [...]
Story Ninety Seven: Satire and Nazi Germany
Posted in Comedy, World War Two on +00002009-01-15T16:19:17+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 16:19:17 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This BBC documentary posted at GoogleVideos looks at the clampdown on satire and other undesirable comedians as the Third Reich grew in power. The plight of specific groups (or “art”) tends to get lost in the scale of the much bigger human cost of WWII.
However here the film looks at how satire and [...]
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