Before we sign off for 2019, we wanted to put together this special bonus episode as a way to thank you all for listening. We hope you’ll share it with your friends and loved ones this Remembrance Day as we remember another Remembrance Day under very different circumstances. 

The episode includes a CBC Archives recording of Halton’s reflections on Remembrance Day in 1944, as that “hard and cruel war [drew] slowly towards its bitter end.” Halton laments the mass destruction and death of two generations. He notes the terrible duality of war, that “splendid things come out of war, but war is a thing to be ashamed of,” and urges us to “not break the faith.” So far, we haven’t, at least in terms of world war scale, and we’d like to believe that remembrance has something to do with that.

We encourage you to listen with an open mind and an open heart. It offers a profound understanding of the meaning of Remembrance Day when the “tides of memory come in.” Enjoy and Lest We Forget.

Time Stamps

0:12 Season Recap and Introduction

4:50 Remembrance Day with Matthew Halton

Guest Biography

Matthew Halton was the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s Senior War Correspondent from 1943. He covered the Second World War in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Northwest Europe.

Notes

The following links offer more information on the topics discussed in this episode:

Podcasts

Voices of Juno with Desaree Rosskopf

OSCVI’s War Dead with Dave Alexander

Great Women During the War

Juno75: Above & Beyond with Neil Orford

7 Days in Normandy with Scott Entwistle

A Question of Honour with David O’Keefe

Events

The 2nd Battle of Ypres

The Battle of Vimy Ridge

The Battle of Passchendaele

The Hundred Days Campaign

D-Day

The Normandy Campaign

Credits

Juno Beach & Beyond is hosted and edited by Alex Fitzgerald-Black, the centre’s Digital Projects Coordinator.

Matthew Halton’s reflections on Remembrance Day 1944 are from the CBC Digital Archives: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1944-remembrance-day-with-matthew-halton 

Garth Webb’s quote about D-Day from the Testaments of Honour Historical Archive and the Defining Moments Canada website: https://definingmomentscanada.ca/jbc75/dday/webb/ 

Mackenzie King’s speech to British Parliament from the British Pathé YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SlEvclY5LE&t=48s

Artillery firing sounds from the CBC News: The National YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsCSQ4uWR1Y

Winston Churchill’s “Finest Hour” speech from Jonathan Thomas’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB5wZtV1MWM

Spitfire sound effect from Jason Kirby’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZI4tAoMN0

Dramatic Interlude by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com

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