War Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit 1941-1945 Paperback - 2015

Dan Conlin was born in Berwick, Nova Scotia and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree with a concentration in History from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1986. He worked as a researcher at the National Archives of Canada and wrote exhibit text for the National Science and Technology Museum exhibit Beyond the Printed Word: Newsreel and Broadcast Reporting in Canada.Conlin worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a morning show producer mainly in Radio with CBC Ottawa but also at CBC Television in Halifax and As It Happens in Toronto. In 1996 he earned a Master of History degree at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. He became Curator of Marine History at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in 1997. In 2014 he became the Curator at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 where he is in charge of temporary and travelling exhibitions. He also teaches in the Atlantic Canada Studies department at Saint Mary's University. He is the author of numerous scholarly and public history articles and contributed to the Oxford Companion to Canadian History. His first book, published in 2009 was Pirates of the Atlantic: Robbery, Murder and Mayhem off the Canadian East Coast.