The Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton
Past Banquets
56th Annual Memorial Banquet 2022
After a two-year pandemic-related hiatus, the Society was pleased to host a sold-out banquet on June 21 at the University Club at the University of Alberta.
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It was a pleasure to host our honorary patron, Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani, AOE BSc, LLD (hon), and other distinguished guests at our Churchill Banquet.
Held on the summer solstice and keeping with the Society's decades-long banquet tradition and aims, one hundred and fifty participants enjoyed a magnificent dinner in Churchillian fashion.
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Lieutenant General (Retired) Paul Wynnyk, CMM, MSM, CD, was a compelling keynote speaker on Russia’s war against Ukraine, sharing his personal and unique experience and perspective.
Early in his speech, he stated, "Zelensky, like Churchill, has not—in the face of odds that have been compared to David and Goliath—accepted any form of defeatism, nor any reasonable terms that would compromise the territorial integrity of Ukraine."
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Wynnyk continued, "Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill’s official biographer, wrote that ‘it was Churchill’s own opposition to all forms of defeatism that marked out the first six months of his warm premiership and established the nature and pattern of his war leadership.'"
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Wynnyk served as Commander of the Canadian Army from 2016 to 2018. In July, he was named Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. He retired in July 2019.
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General (Retired) Paul Wynnyk
2022 Banquet Head Table
Our 2022 Cambridge Scholarsip Winner
There was Lively Discourse
at the Sold-Out Banquet
May 25, 2019: 55th Annual Memorial Banquet
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Our 55th Annual Memorial Banquet was a SOLD-OUT success!
The guest speaker, Andrew Roberts, has spent nearly thirty years researching, writing and broadcasting extensively about both Churchill and the Second World War.
His first book, The Holy Fox, was a biography of Churchill's foreign secretary Lord Halifax, and since then he has published — amongst others - Eminent Churchillians, Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West 1941-45 and The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War.
Roberts has won the Wolfson Prize for History, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website can be found at www.andrew-roberts.net.
