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 […]
York University, Glendon College, Centre of Excellence In Living and Learning in Retirement’s 50th year, Ted Barris continues his Friday lectures this winter at Glendon College’s Centre for Excellence. His series, “Missing in Action: Untold Stories of Canadians’ Participation in Historic Moments,” features famous periods of world history, in which Canadians played vital roles. Lecture […]
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, Ted Barris speaks to Peterborough Probus about his newest talk / presentation. It’s based on his latest non-fiction book, Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory. In the 20th century’s greatest war, one battlefield held the key to victory or defeat – the North Atlantic. It took 2,074 days and […]
York University, Glendon College, Centre of Excellence In Living and Learning in Retirement’s 50th year, Ted Barris continues his Friday lectures this winter at Glendon College’s Centre for Excellence. His series, “Missing in Action: Untold Stories of Canadians’ Participation in Historic Moments,” features famous periods of world history, in which Canadians played vital roles. Lecture […]
York University, Glendon College, Centre of Excellence In Living and Learning in Retirement’s 50th year, Ted Barris continues his Friday lectures this winter at Glendon College’s Centre for Excellence. His series, “Missing in Action: Untold Stories of Canadians’ Participation in Historic Moments,” features famous periods of world history, in which Canadians played vital roles. Lecture […]
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, Ted Barris brings a talk/presentation based on his bestselling book Dam Busters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid against Nazi Germany to Royal United Services Institute of Vancouver Island. It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr […]
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 […]