He has published in Ontario History, the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, the Bulletin d’histoire politique, Canadian Military History, and the Canadian Army Journal. His first book, Zombie Army: The Canadian Army and Conscription in the Second World War, appeared recently as part of the “Studies in Canadian Military History” series published by UBC Press and the Canadian War Museum. The present article comes out of his research for a forthcoming biography of J.L. Ralston, and a planned future history of the 85th Battalion from its creation in 1915 to the winding down of its postwar veterans’ organization in the 1980s.