Ian Haight
I began my university education at Waterloo studying political science but graduated with an honours bachelor degree in history with a minor in music. Following my undergrad, I studied at the University of New Brunswick under the guidance of Dr. Marc Milner. There, I wrote my MA thesis, “Canadians Overseas: The Organizational, Administrative, and Logistics of Canadian Troops Convoys During the Second World War.” One of the highlights of my time at UNB was spending a week at sea onboard the HMCS Halifax, one of Canada’s frigates, off the coast of Norfolk, VA. Following that, I had the honour participate on the Canadian Battlefield Foundation’s study tour of Northwestern Europe during the summer of 2008. Leaving naval history behind, I returned to the University of Waterloo to study the development of environmental policy within the Canadian forces since the Second World War under Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer. I am also interested in Post-Confederation Canadian History, Environmental History, War and Society, Military History, Canadian Naval History, and Canadian Foreign Relations History.
Conference Presentations, Reports, & Publications:
- “Getting Troops to England: The Directorate of Movements and the Department of Munitions and Supply” – 19th Annual Military History Colloquium, University of Waterloo, May 2008
- “A Week at Sea with the Canadian Navy” – Public Lecture, Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, January 2008
- “Report on the Relationship between HMCS Sackville and the Town of Sackville, 1940-1945″ – Historical report submitted to the Town of Sackville, Inc., December 2007
- “Canadian Troop Convoy System, June 1941″ – 9th Annual University of Maine/University of New Brunswick International Graduate Student Conference, University of New Brunswick, September 2007
- “Canadians Overseas: The Story of Troop Convoy 11, June 1941″ – 18th Annual Military History Colloquium, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 2007