Friends of The Canadian War Museum

11/23/2023

In Person Friends Forum – Tuesday, Nov. 28th, 2023

Guest Speaker Dr. Stacey Barker
Historian for the Arts and Military History Canadian War Museum.
TOPIC: “THE CANADIAN FORCES ARTISTS PROGRAM – GROUP 9 “
The Canadian Forces Artist Program – Group 9 exhibition, currently on display at the Canadian War Museum, sits within a rich tradition of official Canadian War Art, going back over a century.
How did official war art get its start in Canada, and how did it get to where it is today? What links the contemporary artists of Group 9 to artistic forerunners such as A.Y. Jackson, Mabel May, Alex Colville, or Molly Lamb Bobak?
Dr. Stacey Barker will discuss these topics in a presentation, followed by a walkthrough of the CFAP Group 9 exhibition and Q&A.
To Register email the Friends at
[email protected]
This in person Friends Forum is a great opportunity to meet one of Canada’s premiere military historians, so come out to the museum and join us.

November 28th, 2024
1:30 - 3:30
At The Canadian War Museum

06/12/2023

https://friends-amis.org/latest/events/an-opportunity-to-participatein-person-at-a-friends-forum/

Thursday, June 22nd, 20231:30 – 3:00 pmCWM Ateliers Rooms C&D Presentation in English Guest Speaker Dr. Andrew BurtchHistorian, Canadian War Museum  Topic: “War Games Exhibit The Curators Perspective “ Dr. Andrew Burtch is the Canadian War Museum’s post-1945 Historian. As curator of Galle...

04/11/2023

Join the Friends for a special Friends Forum on Thursday April 20th, 1:30-3:00 pm in Ateliers Rooms C & D at the Canadian War Museum.
Special guest speaker: Dr. Tim Cook
Topic: "Life Savers and Body Snatchers"
Register at: [email protected]
For those wanting to attend virtually, please indicate your request in your Email and a Zoom invitation will be sent to you.

Join the Friends for a Special Friends Forum Apr 20, 2023  | Friends Forums In Person Thursday, April 20th, 2023 1:30 – 3:00 pm CWM Ateliers Rooms C&D Presentation in English This event will also be Live Streamed via Zoom From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Gre...

03/22/2023

Join the Friends on March 30 at 7pm (EST) for another Virtual Friends Forum.
Special guest speaker Jean-Pierre Raymond
Topic: Chaussegros de Léry - A Canadian Engineering Family Legacy
Register at [email protected]

ean-Pierre Raymond’s presentation will focus on the extraordinary legacy of one family of engineers in Canada, the Chaussegros de Léry Family. This family lineage includes 16 descendants that were military engineers that served in the First World War of which four became generals. A two-part pres...

03/09/2023

02/22/2023

Today is National Aviation Day! ✈️

A gifted athlete who participated in international competitions before the war, Gerald “Gerry” W. A. Bell enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1936. During the Second World War, he served as an aircraft technician in Canada and overseas.

Bell survived the war and continued to serve in the RCAF at bases across Canada and in Germany before retiring in 1961. Not one to rest, he had a second career in the aviation industry and even helped restore an Avro Lancaster bomber.

Learn more about the service of Black Canadians in A Community at War – The Military Service of Black Canadians of the Niagara Region, at the War Museum until September 5, 2022.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/militaryservice

Gerald Bell
Niagara Military Museum

02/14/2023

Join the Friends on March 2nd at 7pm (ET) for another Virtual Friends Forum.
Special guest speaker Dr. Sean Maloney
Topic: Part II The Russo-Ukraine War: The Prequel
Register at [email protected]

02/09/2023

02/01/2023

https://navajotimes.com/opinion/essay/guest-column-code-talker-john-kinsel-turns-106/

How does one become a Navajo Code Talker, go through so much chaos on battlefields, and maintain sanity after being discharged from a military war?

01/24/2023

No Greater Love
Painted by Roger Chabot in 2017
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 20170170-001

12/12/2022

Harold Beament, one of Canada’s war artists during the Second World War, depicts the crew of HMCS Pictou's 4-inch gun and the griffon from their ship's crest painted on the gun shield.

During the Second World War, Canadian warships adopted a variety of unofficial crests, as well as artworks prominently placed on their gun shields. While some were based on the ship's name, or featured characters based on popular cultural references, others had less obvious origins.

In Pictou's case, the griffon was a reference to the ship's commanding officer, Anthony Griffin.

Dawn Gun Stations in HMCS Pictou
Painted by Harold Beament
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
Canadian War Museum 19710261-1007