The study tour aim is to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of Canada’s experience in two World Wars as well as ideas of how to approach teaching this material. Discussion questions consider a variety of concepts, such as shifting historical perspective, the use of historical evidence and moral dimensions of war that can be readily applied in a classroom environment.
Follow the program as participants visit memorial sites and battlegrounds, discuss questions and tensions surrounding daily seminar topics, take in local culture, and consider how to bring this all back to the classroom.
Follow the program as participants visit memorial sites and battlegrounds, discuss questions and tensions surrounding daily seminar topics, take in local culture, and consider how to bring this all back to the classroom.
Day 1 (July 10): Meet in Paris; Introductory Seminar – Why study the history of Canada at war?
Day 2 (July 11): Battle of the Somme; Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont-Hamel; Courcelette- Regina Trench. Day 3 (July 12): Arras sector; the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Day 4 (July 13): Ablain-St. Nazaire; Bourlon Wood. Day 5 (July 14): Second Battle of Ypres; St. Eloi Craters; Mount Sorrel; Menin Gate ceremony wreath-laying. |
Day 6 (July 15): Passchendaele (3rd Battle of Ypres); Puys, Dieppe.
Day 7 (July 16): Dieppe; Dieppe Cemetery. Day 8 (July 17): ‘The Great War in the Classroom’ Workshop; Introduction to the Second World War in 1943. Day 9 (July 18): Juno Beach; Operation OVERLORD; Beny-sur-Mer Canadian cemetery. Day 10 (July 19): Omaha Beach; American Military Cemetery, St. Laurent-sur-Mer; Arromanches. |
Day 11 (July 20): Normandy Tactical Exercise Without Troops (TEWT); Operation “Charnwood”; Canadian memorial garden, Abbaye d’Ardenne.
Day 12 (July 21): Verrières Ridge, Point 67 monument; Operation TOTALIZE; Canadian Cemetery, Bretteville-sur- Laize; Polish Division cemetery; Point 140. Day 13 (July 22): Operation TRACTABLE; Canadian Battlefields Foundation Belvedere, St. Lambert-sur-Dives. Day 14 (July 23): Trun; Montormel; Return to Paris. |