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September 28, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the first group of Ugandan Asian refugees to arrive in Canada after being expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. This was Canada’s first major resettlement of non-European and largely non-Christian refugees in the postwar period. To consolidate power in Uganda, after leading a military coup in 1971, Idi Amin accused 80,000 Ugandans of South Asian descent of economic sabotage and a failure to integrate socially.
In the final talk of the LCMSDS Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series, Geoff Hayes traces the Canadian path through Normandy to re-consider an ‘old’ narrative. Despite years of debate, the view persists that “something appeared to be wrong” with First Canadian Army through the summer of 1944. It argues that, in the face of heavy casualties and enduring British criticism of the Canadians, the soldiers of First Canadian Army understood that they had earned a remarkable victory in Normandy.
In the final talk of the LCMSDS Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series, Geoff Hayes traces the Canadian path through Normandy to re-consider an ‘old’ narrative. Despite years of debate, the view persists that “something appeared to be wrong” with First Canadian Army through the summer of 1944. It argues that, in the face of heavy casualties and enduring British criticism of the Canadians, the soldiers of First Canadian Army understood that they had earned a remarkable victory in Normandy.
In the seventh installment of the LCMSDS Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series, Matthew Barrett discusses the experience of Lieutenant Reginald Woods of the Lake Superior Regiment. After his platoon came under German attack on 17 August, Woods vanished. When he suddenly re-emerged two months later claiming amnesia, Canadian military authorities needed to grapple with assumptions about combat leadership, mental responsibility and criminal culpability.
In the seventh installment of the LCMSDS Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series, Matthew Barrett discusses the experience of Lieutenant Reginald Woods of the Lake Superior Regiment. After his platoon came under German attack on 17 August, Woods vanished. When he suddenly re-emerged two months later claiming amnesia, Canadian military authorities needed to grapple with assumptions about combat leadership, mental responsibility and criminal culpability.
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