Season 2 of the RCRM Speakers Series explores various aspects of loss in the context of military conflict. When this topic attracts scholarly attention, the unthinkable is often revealed. Complex facets of the dynamic between mourning and commemoration, deprivation and rejection or disposal of war by-products surface. All of it leaves undeniable traces on the communities found in the path of the clash. The series ran in two parts: from January to June and after a two-months summer break, from September to November 2021. Each talk premiered on the museum YouTube channel, followed by a podcast episode released three weeks later.
RCRM Speakers Series - Season 2
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Season 2 of the RCRM Speakers Series explores various aspects of loss in the context of military conflict. When this topic attracts scholarly attention, the unthinkable is often revealed. Complex facets of the dynamic between mourning and commemoration, deprivation and rejection or disposal of war by-products surface. All of it leaves undeniable traces on the communities found in the path of the clash. The series ran in two parts: from January to June and after a two-months summer break, from September to November 2021. Each talk premiered on the museum YouTube channel, followed by a podcast episode released three weeks later.
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November 25, 2021
Sterlin Castle: The Story behind RCR Lt. Mitch Sterlin's Gallantry in Italy in WWll
Season 2, Episode 9 This episode brings to light an extraordinary story of courage, heroism, and fate. The episode was recorded during Remembrance week 2021 and is dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Mitchell Sterlin, 16 platoon commander, during The RCR engagement on the outskirts of Ortona (Italy), in December 1943. Ellin Bessner unveils the fantastic story of brave Mitchell Sterlin outside the RCR circles. Sterlin's story, his heroism and his humanity are well known to those who served or serve in The Royal Canadian Regiment, less so to the general public. In 2019, Ellin published Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II . She spent six years researching, travelling, and interviewing over 300 veterans and their families, to tell the untold stories of how and why Canada's Jewish community sent 17,000 men and women to serve under the Allied Forces during the Second World War. It is a story that has never been comprehensively told before and fills an important gap in the publicly known accounts of how a country of volunteers helped win the war. In her book, Ellin Bessner tells us who these Jewish Canadian were, why they enlisted, and what their lives were like as Jews in Canada, in the barracks, or on the battlefield. To paraphrase Peter Mansbridge, Bessner's book brings a part of our history out of the shadows. Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II , can be found on Amazon, on Ellin's website soon in our own gift shop. Ellin Bessner is a Canadian journalist, a professor of journalism at Centennial College in Toronto, and a sought-after speaker on Canadian military and Jewish history. Ellin was born in Montreal and graduated with a degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University. She was a reporter and anchor for CBC News and CTV News. As a foreign correspondent based in Rome, Italy, she reported on the Mafia, Italian food, fashion, the opera, and, of course, on soccer. Ellin also covered several civil wars in Africa. Shes reported on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, the Canadian military, the Columbia space shuttle disaster, 9/11, and she's interviewed the late Prince Phillip and the Dalai Lama. Contributors: Ellin Bessner The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum Mark Vogelsang Georgiana Stanciu
November 11, 2021
Dr. Tanya Grodzinsky: Marking Their Place. Commemorating the Dead in War and Peace
Season 2, Episode 8 This episode focuses on the transition from burying the fallen in graves near the site where they fell to the repatriation of bodies, by comparison a relatively recent practice that has seen ramp ceremonies on the tarmac, attended by family members and senior military or government officials. As our guest, Dr. Tanya Grodzinsky explains after reviewing the funeral procedures in the Canadian military since 1800s, this transition was made possible by changes in the policies related to the way the Canadian Armed Forces manage casualties. Dr. Grodzinsky is a Emerita Professor in the History Department at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON. She is also a 36-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, 16 of which were spent as military faculty at RMC, teaching history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With an international reputation for her knowledge of the Anglo-American War of 1812, she has researched extensively other Canadian topics including 80 battlefield studies dealing with colonial North American conflicts and in Italy during the Second World War. Most recently, Dr Grodzinsky has been preparing a volume covering the history of The Royal Canadian Regiment from 1946 to 2001. Today we have the opportunity to listen to her research about how the Canadian Armed Forces is commemorating the dead in war and peace. Contributors: Tanya Grodzinsky Georgiana Stanciu Mark Vogelsang The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum
October 14, 2021
"A Fitting Tribute": Some Southwestern Ontario War Memorials
Season 2, Episode 7 In this episode, Michael Baker discusses war memorials in southwestern Ontario and what has happened to these memorials, now that many years have passed since the end of those two conflicts. While most Canadians are familiar with the cenotaph, they are but one type within a range of memorials that appeared to honour soldiers in the years following both world wars. Others included public buildings and parks, as well as a variety of monuments. It was also common for schools, churches, office buildings, and even factories to enshrine a list on their walls of those students, parishioners or staff members who had volunteered to serve their country. A graduate of University of Western Ontario with degrees in history and education, Michael Baker is well known to the regional historians as the Collections Curator at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, and the Curator of Regional History at Museum London, but also as the editor of Downtown London: Layers of Time (1999) and the co-editor with Hilary Bates Neary, of 100 Fascinating Londoners and Street Names of London - An Illustrated Guide , both published by James Lorimer of Canada. He is a former president of the London Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario and of the Heritage London Foundation and a past President of the Elgin Historical Society. Contributors: Mark Vogelsang Michael Baker Georgiana Stanciu The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum
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