American Revolution

Voices of the Revolution

• "Mother was forced to pay rent for her own farm."
  Hannah Ingraham
  (Dramatized, 1:21 minutes, 1.9 MB)
  
  
• "...he was made a prisoner and sold as a slave."
  Richard Pierpoint
  (Dramatized, 1 minute, 0.7 MB)
  
  
• "...I was not to be frightened by the threats of the rebels..."
  Joseph Brant
  (Dramatized, 30 seconds, 1.4 MB)
  
  

War of 1812

The Battle of Beaver Dams, 1813

• Listen to personal accounts from Laura Secord, John Tutlee, and Jacob Warner of their meeting before the battle.
  (Dramatized, 1:44 minutes, 2.5 MB)
  
  

South African War

Into Battle

• "...the bullets fell like a perfect hailstorm."
  Listen to three eyewitness accounts from Canadian soldiers of the fighting at Paardeberg on 19 and 27 January 1900.
  
  (Dramatized, 3:15 minutes, 3.7 MB)
  
  

First World War

Surviving the Trenches

• "They speak of trenches. Trenches is too romantic a name."
  Listen to three soldiers recount their trench experience.
  
  (Dramatized, 2:17 minutes, 3.2 MB)
  
  

Do Your Bit

• "...socks, shirts, mufflers and mitts."
  Listen to the stories of three Canadian women on the home front.
  
  (Dramatized, 1:42 minutes, 1.6 MB)
  
  

Face of Battle

• 1. How I Endure
  "You would have sworn that we had been in a slaughter house."
  (Dramatized, 1:37 minutes, 2.4 MB)
  
  
• 2. On the Battlefield
  "We get scared nearly to death..."
  (Dramatized, 1:30 minutes, 2.3 MB)
  
  
• 3. Death and Destruction
  "...one arm had been sheared from his body..."
  (Dramatized, 2 minutes, 2.9 MB)
  
  

First Peoples and the War

• "...we will take our place side by side with the white people..."
  Listen to three First Peoples discuss their hopes and disappointments after fighting for Canada.
  (Dramatized, 1:19 minutes, 1.9 MB)
  
  

Too Young to Fight

• "I want to enlist myself, but they would not take me."
  Listen as two underaged boys try to enlist.
  (Dramatized, 50 seconds, 1.2 MB)
  
  

Second World War

Voices of Survival

• Listen to three eyewitness accounts of destruction and survival at sea.
  (3 minutes, 4.7 MB)

Factory Work

• "...we should defeat fascism..."
  Jim Tester (24 seconds, 0.6 MB)
  
  
• "...it was the first opportunity they had to work, period, anywhere ..."
  Rose Alper (31 seconds, 0.8 MB)
  
  
• "They were not accustomed to women in the plant..."
  Jean Brooks (55 seconds, 1.4 MB)
  
  

Captive Voices

• "We played softball in the summer..."
  James E. Finnie (15 seconds, 0.5 MB)
  
  
• "They were always scared that we'd organize escapes."
  Robin Hayward (52 seconds, 1.3 MB)
  
  
• "...there were times when you didn't get any food parcels at all and then we really suffered..."
  James E. Finnie (17 seconds, 0.4 MB)
  
  
• "...if you don't cooperate you could be shot at dawn..."
  Robin Hayward (47 seconds, 1.2 MB)

Peacekeeping

Voices of Peacekeepers

• "Ironing clothes wasn't a luxury. It was a necessity."
  Allan Earnshaw
  (49 seconds, 1.4 MB)
  
  
• "It dawned on me that maybe they weren't wasps..."
  Douglas M. Youngson
  (51 seconds, 1.5 MB)
  
  
• "...clear areas where children can go back and play..."
  Robert F. Reynolds
  (51 seconds, 0.9 MB)