Research Guides: Book Displays in the Learning Commons: Month of Remembrance Book Display

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November is widely known as the...

Month of Remembrance

It is a time to collectively grieve and remember those who have died. Remembrance Day, which falls on November 11th, is for remembering the tragic events of World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945) and the countless lives that were lost. In Canada, we take time to remember the bravery and sacrifices of Canadians who fought for our country and for our allies during those dark times. We remember, lest we forget the horrors witnessed on the front lines, the blood shed for our freedom. While we acknowledge WWI and WWII, it is important to also remember Canada's contribution to the Korean War (1950-1953), where brave Canadian soldiers fought and died in an effort to keep the peace.

In addition, on November 20th, we acknowledge Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we hold a moment of silence to reflect on those who were victims of transphobic violence and murdered for being transgender.

We've chosen this selection of e-books to inform, educate, and to remember the lives lost, lest we forget.

Remembrance Day

Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942 by Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780773539761
Publication Date: 2012-03-27
Elizabeth Hillman enrolled at McGill University the week World War II began. This book draws on her journal entries, articles from the Daily, and headlines from the Montreal Gazette to paint a vivid picture of day-to-day life on campus, alongside the civilian wartime experience in Canada.
Bomb Girls: trading aprons for ammo by Barbara Dickson
Call Number: 2015
ISBN: 9781459731189
Publication Date: 2015-10-03
Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada's largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.
Canada's army : waging war and keeping the peace by J.L. Granatstein
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781487509491
Publication Date: 2021
Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train, and serve their nation in peace and in war. Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military.
Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War by Tim Cook (Editor); J. L. Granatstein (Editor)
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780774864077
Publication Date: 2020-05-29
With compelling insight, Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which the First World War shaped and changed Canada – and the ways it did not.
Canada at War: a graphic history of World War Two by Paul Keery; Michael Wyatt (Artist)
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781553655961
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
A beautifully crafted graphic novel, tracing the achievements of the Canadian Forces in the Second World War. In 1914, Canada went to war as a subject of Britain. In 1939, it made the choice to fight all on its own. Canada at War follows the developments and setbacks, wins and losses, of a nation learning to stand up for itself in the midst of the most difficult war of the 20th century.
D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny by Lance Goddard
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781550024920
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
When Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, and yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny chronicles that momentous day hour-by-hour, through the words of the men themselves. With more than 300 illustrations, this is a vivid remembrance of one of Canada's greatest military achievements.
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780887557286
Publication Date: 2012-01-15
In his groundbreaking new book, For King and Kanata, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919—a per capita percentage equal to that of Euro-Canadians—and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans.
The Great War: From Memory to History by Kellen Kurschinski (Editor); Steve Marti (Editor); Alicia Robinet (Editor); Matt Symes (Editor); Jonathan F. Vance (Editor)
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781771120500
Publication Date: 2015-10-23
The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies this collection offers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the local, national, and international levels.
Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories From the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781772033380
Publication Date: 2020-11-03
Heard Amid the Guns: True Stories From the Western Front, 1914-1918 paints a rich and varied tapestry of the First World War, highlighting the personal stories of over 150 men and women from across North America who served overseas.
Her Darling Boy: A Tale of Vimy Ridge by Tom Goodman
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781927855478
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
The battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defining moment in Canadian history. The idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying together in the mud and tangled wire of northern France was, and still is, considered by many as nation-building. Tom Goodman accepted this view until he discovered letters between his grandmother and Archie Polson, the uncle he has never met. He has now collected many of these letters, along with his own contextual narrative, so that we can see the true cost of war to a family and a country
Korea: Canada's forgotten war by John Melady
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9781459701328
Publication Date: 2011-12-31
The Korean War (1950-53) forms a little-known but exciting part of Canada's military history. The heroism and sacrifice of Canadians who fought in this conflict as part of the United Nations force has often been ignored. The men from across Canada who served and fought were forever changed by what they saw and experienced in this faraway land. Army, navy, air force all receive their share of long-overdue praise in this important book.
Making the best of it : women and girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw.
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780774862790
Publication Date: 2020
Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities, but scholars have argued that very little changed. How can these interpretations be reconciled? Making the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the war
Material traces of war : stories of Canadian women and conflict, 1914-1945 by Stacey Barker, Krista Cooke, Molly McCullough
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780776629216
Publication Date: 2021
This volume looks at Canadian women's experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served in the military, volunteered their time, and grieved lost loved ones, through thematically organized vignettes.
Once Well Beloved: Remembering a British Columbia Great War Sacrifice by Michael Sasges
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780772672551
Publication Date: 2019-10-18
In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages--and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors: the people who built and were built by a Canadian community that was also distinctly British Columbian.
Veterans with a Vision: Canada's war blinded in peace and war by Serge Marc Durflinger
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780774818575
Publication Date: 2010-03-22
History has told us something about our war dead but very little about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada's war-blinded veterans, whose courage and the organization they created reshaped the way Canadians and successive governments perceived war disability and, in particular, blindness.
A war of patrols : Canadian Army operations in Korea by William Johnston
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780774850544
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
The extended peace the world anticipated following the decisive Allied victory in the Second World War was abruptly shattered in June 1950 by the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korea. Responding to a United Nations' call to assist the South Korean regime, Canada deployed an 8000-man brigade to the peninsula to fight as part of an American-led UN force. This account of the Canadian campaign in Korea provides the first detailed study of the training, leadership, operations, and tactics of the brigade under each of its three wartime commanders as well as its relationship with American and Commonwealth allies.

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism by Laurel Westbrook
Call Number: (ebook)
ISBN: 9780520316584
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
Anti-violence movements rooted in identity politics are commonplace, including those to stop violence against people of color, women, and LGBT people. Unlivable Lives reveals the unintended consequences of this approach within the transgender rights movement in the United States. It illustrates how this form of activism obscures the causes of and lasting solutions to violence and exacerbates fear among members of the identity group, running counter to the goal of making lives more livable.