Heritage Matters

Explore the Trust’s Heritage Matters e-magazine to learn more about Ontario’s past. In particular, check out the following articles related to the Second World War:

• Canada’s newest landmark: The Canadian National Holocaust Monument
• From adversity to the stars (RCAF Station Clinton and radar)
• Ontario’s medical legacy

Doors Open Ontario resources

One of the more popular sites visited during Doors Open Whitby or Doors Open Oshawa is Camp X, a site where men and women were employed at the British Security Coordination spy training school and communications centre during the Second World War. Check out the video below to get an idea of the kind of spy training that was offered or visit their official website for photos. Or explore the CBC’s X Company web page to learn more about how the story of Camp X has been dramatized.

Expert Lynn Philip Hodgson leading a tour of Camp X during Doors Open

External resources

• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
• Canadian War Museum: Canada at War Against Japan 1941-1945
• Canadian War Museum: Liberation! Canada and the Netherlands 1944-1945
• Canadian War Museum: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
• Canadian War Museum: Second World War: Canada’s War Artists’ Perspective
• CBC United at War | Canada: The Story of Us, Episode 8
• Juno Beach Centre
• Montreal Holocaust Museum: Building New Lives
• Montreal Holocaust Museum: Teaching the History of the Holocaust in Ontario
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Veterans Affairs: Second World War