{"id":335499,"date":"2025-10-27T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:45:15","slug":"tim-cook-canadian-war-museums-chief-historian-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335499\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum\u2019s chief historian, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian military historian Tim Cook next to a maquette of the memorial at Vimy Ridge at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, in April, 2017.Adrian Wyld\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The Canadian War Museum says its chief historian and research director has died.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s CEO announced the death in a news release Sunday, saying Tim Cook was \u201cinstrumental in shaping the Canadian War Museum we know today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caroline Dromaguet says Cook, who had served with the museum since 2002, played a large role in the popular permanent exhibition \u201cFor Crown and Country,\u201d which is dedicated to the South African and First World Wars.<\/p>\n

Dromaguet says he curated several major exhibitions, including\u201d Victory 1918 – The Last 100 Days,\u201d \u201cCommunities at War\u201d and \u201cWar and Medicine.\u201d She says he also was the museum\u2019s champion for \u201cIn Their Own Voices,\u201d an oral history project collecting interviews of veterans and their loved ones.<\/p>\n

Cook was a graduate of Trent University, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the University of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

He was a prolific author who published 19 books and dozens of scholarly articles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Canada\u2019s preeminent military historian, Tim Cook\u2019s contributions to the museum since 2002 have been enormous,\u201d Dromaguet said in the news release.<\/p>\n

\u201c(He) was a passionate ambassador both for the museum and for Canadian military history. He has forever left his own mark on history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement did not give a cause of death for Cook, nor his age.<\/p>\n

In a 2023 interview with The Canadian Press about the refurbishing of the National War Memorial in St. John\u2019s and construction of a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier there, Cook said the two world wars are particularly important in understanding the development of Canada, and how they shaped society.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemorials help focus memory,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot that has happened in the past, and we as Canadians, as a society, as communities, often decide what we will mark for remembrance and war, sacrifice and war,\u201d he said. \u201cService and war is something that we as Canadians have said we will mark with monuments and memorials.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another 2023 interview, this one about the maintenance of graves by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cook said he\u2019d visited many of the cemeteries. He called them sacred places.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are filled with history. They are steeped in sorrow,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd they are very powerful spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

The museum noted Cook received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation and the Governor General\u2019s History Award. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n

Dromaguet said Cook mentored numerous museum historians and paved the way for important future research.<\/p>\n

She said a more formal opportunity to celebrate Cook\u2019s contributions will be shared soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canadian military historian Tim Cook next to a maquette of the memorial at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-335499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}