Memory and Valour
By Samantha L.G. McCrea
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Episodes: 30
Description
Memory and Valour is a Canadian military history podcast exploring the human stories of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War (WW1). Through authentic diaries, letters, and archival research, each episode brings listeners into trench warfare, shell shock, conscription, battlefield tactics, and the lived experience of Canadian soldiers on the Western Front.
This is Canadian WW1 history beyond the textbook — focused on courage, sacrifice, memory, and the families forever changed by war.
Follow Memory and Valour for immersive Canadian First World War storytelling.
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30 - Land Battleships: The Tank Comes to the Western Front
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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29 - One Man, Sixty-Two Prisoners: Remembering John Chipman Kerr's Victoria Cross at Courcelette
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May 28, 2026 |
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28 - Beyond Winged Warfare: Canadians in the Air, 1914–1918
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May 22, 2026 |
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27 - Fire on the Western Front: Flamethrowers, Trench Warfare, and the Canadian Experience
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May 14, 2026 |
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26 - Ellis Sifton VC: Vimy Ridge & the Man Behind the Moment With Historian Blair Ferguson
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May 01, 2026 |
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25 - What Canada Took from Our War Dead: The Hidden Story of Bodies, Medicine, and War
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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24 - Trench Humour: Slang, Satire, & Survival in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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23 - Vimy Ridge: Birth of a Nation, Cost of a Generation
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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22 - 1915: The Year Canada Lost the Illusion of War
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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21 - Warriors Without Rights: Indigenous Soldiers of the CEF
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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20 - The Barnbow Lasses: 35 Women, One Explosion, A Hidden Story
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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19 - Behind Barbed Wire: Canadian POWs and Internment Camps of WWI
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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18 - Mount Sorrel: Inside the Battle That Shook the Canadian Corps
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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17 - A Nation Divided: Canada’s Conscription Crisis of 1917
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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16 - Canada’s Shock Troops in WW1: Ruthlessness, Myth, and the Canadian Corps
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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15 - The War That Stayed: Shell Shock and Canadians in the First World War
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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14 - The Last Charge: Canada’s Cavalry in the Great War
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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13 - The Timberwolves’ Legacy: Indigenous Contributions in WWI Canada
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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12 - Poison Wind: Canada and the First Gas Attack
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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11 - Knighthood, Chaos, and the Vanished Cemetery - Listener's Choice
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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10 - Beaumont-Hamel: Courage, Loss & the Newfoundland Regiment
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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9 - Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia: Brotherhood, Sacrifice, & the PPCLI Legacy
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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8 - Voices in the Frost: The Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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7 - Life in the Trenches: In Their Own Words
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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6 - Shot at Dawn: The Other Side of Valour
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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5 - A Runner's Bravery in the Great War - Pte. McDonald
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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4 - No Man’s Land: What Canadian Soldiers Faced Between the Trenches
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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3 - The Battle of Hill 70 & The Milburn Sacrifice
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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2 - Healing in the Hell of War: How Canadians Treated the Wounded
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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1 - Why Canada Remembers: Remembrance Day and the Cost of Service
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Nov 09, 2025 |