Ted Barris

On Wednesday evening, March 20, 2024, Ted Barris speaks to members of the B.C. Aviation Museum for a third time with a presentation based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire. Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and […]

On Saturday, April 6, 2024, Ted Barris speaks to the AGM of the Army Cadet League of Canada, and delivers a presentation based on his 19th book – Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire. Lost in the Second-World-War story of the Battle of the Bulge lay an account of sacrifice and survival […]

On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, Ted Barris presents the little-known story of Canadians who served in the Korean War. His talk / presentation for Federal Retirees in southwestern Ontario is based on his bestselling book Deadlock in Korea, which Korean veterans consider the most accurate telling of their service in the war.. Between 1950 and […]

On Friday, April 19, Ted Barris returns to the Tillsonburg Legion to present the story of D-Day from the Canadian perspective. On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians — at sea, in the air, and on the ground — joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy beaches. The Canadian beach was […]

L/Col. Black awards NORAD Trophy plaque. Photo Matthew Wocks. On April 24, 2024, Ted Barris will speak to the Probus Club of Ancaster. Before the pandemic and during 2023, Ted regularly presented to upwards of 100 different Probus Clubs across Ontario. He'd delighted to be joining club members in Ancaster for the first time. Ted […]

On the day before the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Ted Barris returns to the Barrie Legion to present the story of D-Day from the Canadian perspective. On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians — at sea, in the air, and on the ground — joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy […]

Each Canada Day, Canadians continue to ask: What sparked Canada’s rapid expansion from coast to coast? Among the catalysts for Confederation were steamboats, or “fire canoes,” as aboriginal people called them. In large measure, the national dream of a Canada from sea to sea was realized aboard Mississippi-style paddlewheel steamers that plied western waterways on […]

Published by Sutherland House – September 2024 “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” are Churchill’s words that set the 113 days of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 apart from all others, as the greatest aerial battle in history. As the […]

Published by Sutherland House – September 2024 “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” are Churchill’s words that set the 113 days of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 apart from all others, as the greatest aerial battle in history. As the […]

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” are Churchill’s words that set the 113 days of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 apart from all others, as the greatest aerial battle in history. As the German Luftwaffe sought to destroy the Royal […]