The Quebec Tercentenary, 1908: Canada’s First National Military Pageant

The Quebec Tercentenary celebrations of 1908 constituted one of the largest gatherings of military forces on Canadian soil before 1914, yet the affair has been largely eclipsed by the momentous events of the First World War. The recent donation to the Canadian War Museum of the scrapbooks of General Sir William Otter, however, have provided some information on the contemporary view of the Tercentenary as seen through the eyes of Canadian journalists. The 19 leather-bound folios, covering his entire military career, were compiled by his loyal wife “Molly,” and contain a wealth of newspaper clippings, official programs and invitations. Every scrap and memento has been neatly trimmed and pasted before being carefully identified in her clear long-hand script

Making Bricks Without Straws: The Development of the Korean War Exhibit at the Canadian War Museum

Established a scant half century ago, the Canadian War Museum has a mandate to document, examine and present our national military heritage to the people of Canada, about 200,000 of whom grace its halls annually. If the Museum is to be anything more than a collection of trophies or a veterans’ touchstone, this story must be interestingly told with historical balance, accuracy and dignity. It is hoped that the following brief account of a recent exhibit will illustrate how this goal is sought and, occasionally, accomplished. The lack of a Korea Gallery in the national military museum was not an intentional slight against those 25,000 Canadians who served in the United Nations police action. The exhibit “philosophy” prior to the 1980s tended to focus on commanders and technology of the world wars, at the expense of later events like peacekeeping and the Cold War. Allusions to Koera were found in art shows and weapons displays, but a didactic exhibit on the Canadian experience in Korea had to wait until forty years after the conflict. The primary reason for building the Korea Gallery was to fulfil the Museum’s mandate and complete the chronological storyline of Canada’s military experience. The guiding precepts were to present an attractive, historically-balanced exhibit that would also link the existing Second World War Gallery with the proposed permanent exhibit, “Canada’s Peacekeepers” (oepning in June 1996). The timing of the project was fortuitous in that it immediately preceded government cutbacks which reduced the staff by nearly 30 per cent

EXPLAINING LATERALITY

Working with multi-species allometric relations and drawing on mammalian theorist Denenberg’s works, I provide an explanatory theory of the mammalian dual-brain as no prior account has

Investing in the Clean Trillion: Closing the Clean Energy Investment Gap

In 2010 world governments agreed to limit the increase in global temperature to two degrees Celsius (2 °C) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. To have an 80 percent chance of maintaining this 2 °C limit, the IEA estimates an additional $36 trillion in clean energy investment is needed through 2050 -- or an average of$1 trillion more per year compared to a "business as usual" scenario over the next 36 years.This report provides 10 recommendations for investors, companies and policymakers to increase annual global investment in clean energy to at least $1 trillion by 2030 -- roughly a four-fold jump from current investment levels

NHEP Support for DES Shellfish Program 2005

For the past three years, Great Bay Coast Watch (GBCW) volunteers have provided the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Shellfish Program with significant assistance in performing tasks necessary in managing shellfish resources for human safety. This report describes a continuation of this mutually beneficial partnership