- OSHAWA
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For 100 years General Motors has been manufacturing cars in Oshawa, at one point being home to one of the largest assembly plants in the world. But...
Lisa Terech, Community Engagement Coordinator for the Oshawa Museum, discusses the history of the General Motors Oshawa strike of 1937. This turning...
X Company star Torben Liebrecht narrates this story of a grandson who visits Camp 30 in Bowmanville, Canada, to see where his grandfather was held...
Gutter Fairbarn Gutter Fighting Film originally made for the OSS is 1944.
-IRFS thanks, Mark and Paladin Press for the support. Their noble efforts in restoring the lost Gutter Fighting Films have revived the memory and...
Bill Underwood developed and teaches the art of defendo, an unarmed self-defense. He's in his 80s and still trains law enforcement officers, the...
Discover the utterly Canadian martial art called Defendo, developed during the Second World War by Bill Underwood, who mastered the art of offing...
Actual footage from Office of Strategic Services (OSS) training videos produced by John Ford. Courtesy of the National Archives.
Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was celebrated on May 8, 1945 when Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied Forces. The historic...
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A VHS tape of a Camp X documentary.
X Company, a new CBC drama, is inspired by real-life Canadian spy camp. Click here for the full story:...
In this reel from the Department of National Defense, agent Harry James demonstrates the Type B Mk. II Suitcase Radio - the most compact and ultra...
X Company star Connor Price narrates this tale of Parkwood Estate in Oshawa, and the wartime contributions of General Motors Canada president Sam...
Watch a clip from X Company's latest episode as they explain how Camp X first opened in 1941.About the Episode:The first guard assigned to Camp X,...
CSIS is proud to celebrate Camp X's 80th Anniversary and to highlight its pivotal role during the Second World War
Allied forces had to find any edge they could during World War 2, and that meant sending spies undercover across enemy lines, but first they had to...
OBSCURIST TOURIST 042 - The Bowmanville POW camp also known as Camp 30 was a Canadian-run POW camp for German soldiers during World War II. It...