Tri-University Graduate Program in History

is looking for proposals for presentations, poster presentations, and vendors for their CAMELOT conference on Saturday, 26 September 2026. Please see on Instagram for more information.

Proposals due: Wednesday, July 1.

For proposal submission links see: https://buff.ly/PiLKYWu

hosts the 36th annual Canadian Military History Colloquium on May 8-9 at the Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University. Register by May 3! https://buff.ly/zf4QaNy

& presents Tri-U PhD candidate from Laurier, Kelly Morrison with the Military Lecture: "Lives of Servitude and Service: British Home Children and the Making of Wartime Canada."

At 102, Sir George Beardshaw is the last surviving veteran of the Second World War-era Queen’s Own Rifles and the only surviving British “Home Child” left in Canada. He is one of approximately 100,000 poor or orphaned child migrants sent to this country as part of British social and philanthropic programs developed across the United Kingdom between 1869 and 1939. Many Home Children, despite enduring hardship and abuse in their placements, chose to stay in Canada and contribute to this country’s efforts in the First and Second World Wars—approximately 10,000 in the Great War and 20,000 in the Second World War. Countless others served in various ways on the Canadian home front. Kelly Morrison’s presentation introduces Beardshaw and a select group of Home Children, revealing how this marginalized group helped to define Canada’s national wartime and postwar identity.

Location: Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph, ON N1H 2W9.

Doors open at 6:30 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 the Museum's YouTube channel, and their Museum Everywhere Portal.

https://buff.ly/aMqbhY1

.baer.tsarfati successfully defended her dissertation last December. The Tri-U took some time to learn more about her research. https://buff.ly/6ytbfca

Congratulations Dr. Baer-Tsarfati! 🎉