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About

Caroline D’Amours, earned a BA in history and an MA in Canadian military history from Université Laval. She earned her PhD in Canadian military history from the University of Ottawa in 2015. Her thesis focused on infantry reinforcement training for the Canadian Army during the Second World War (1939-1945). Dr. D’Amours was then a postdoctoral fellow with the International History Institute at Boston University where she focused on the participation of the Lower St. Lawrence region in the Second World War. Her current research focuses on Quebec’s contribution to the conflict and the combat training of the Canadian Army. She is also interested in the impact of culture on the behaviour of soldiers and populations in conflict situations.

Research Interests

• Military Culture
• French Canada’s reaction to, and participation in, world wars
• Canadian Army Combat Training in the Second World War

Recent Publications

• 2025 | “’La victoire par l’épargne’ : mobiliser le Québec pour l’achat des Obligations de la Victoire lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1940-1945)”, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (in press).

• 2025 | “Des groups mobilisés derrière la conscription: les élites rimouskoises et le Camp 55”, Bulletin d’histoire politique (in press).

• 2025 | “Ready for combat? The impact of French-Canadian Infantry Reinforcements during the Battle of the Scheldt,” in Nicholas Wheeler (ed.), Canada and the Liberation of the Scheldt, 1944-1945, Vancouver, UBC Press (accepted)

• 2024 | Caroline D’Amours, Hannah Young and Catherine Mavriplis, The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program: Thirty Years of Action Across Canada, from 1989 to 2021. Cham, Springer Nature, 179 p. 

• 2023 | “Le Centre d’instruction no 55 à Rimouski”, in Soldats de la côte : L’histoire régimentaire des Fusiliers du St-Laurent, 1869-2019 (In Press). 

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