The announcements, once infrequent, are a monthly occurrence now. It is a sad or pleasing reality depending on your perspective, that after more than a century, the fields of France and Belgium are surrendering an increasing number of Canadian soldiers of the Great War. It was inevitable with the expansion of housing and industry into the old battlefields combined with large infrastructure projects that cut through the heart of battlefields where intense fighting once took place.
Through writing and research, Glenn Kerr seeks to shine a light into a chapter of Canadian and Commonwealth history where the soldiers and closest loved ones can no longer speak for themselves. How is our modern world dealing with these new logistical challenges and the endless sensitive considerations for soldiers whose closest family members have also passed into memory? More than a century after the Armistice, the missing of the Great War have reappeared in modern memory and their descendants are waiting and watching as protectorates of that memory.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation starts at 7 p.m., followed by a question period.
The lecture premieres in-person at the Civic Museum. The recorded conversation will be available on YouTube, and our Museum Everywhere Portal. Guelph Museums’ Military Lecture series is presented in partnership with the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada.
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