Welcome to the Memory Project
Stories of Service and Sacrifice
Don Leier
Army • Home Town: Saskatchewan
When we came back from Korea, or at least when I did, a couple of years later I wanted to buy a house through the Veterans’ Land Act, and they told me Korea wasn’t a war, I don’t qualify.
Paul Tomelin
Army • Home Town: Calgary, Alberta
My experience during the Second World War convinced me that war was hell. And when I was in Korea, I think that’s what I tried to get out with my photographs, that war was hell.
Delphis Cormier
Army Listen Audio Interview
Art Baker
Army Listen Audio Interview
Raymond Olivier
Army Listen Audio Interview
Donald “Bud” MacLeod
Army Listen Audio Interview
Allison Furlotte
Army • Home Town: Nash Creek, New Brunswick
And in the middle of the night, maybe two or three o'clock in the morning, really a dark night, an explosion went off not too far from the safe trail we had to patrol. And I must have had my back turned because it got me in the back of the leg.
David Bowen
Army • Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta
There was some Chinese behind the lines, way behind the lines at an airfield with a little biplane and they’d come over at night and they’d drop hand grenades from the biplane and we’d call the guy “Bed Check Charlie” because he’d come around every few nights.
Russell “Smitty” Smith
Army • Home Town: Toronto, Ontario
Well, we had no equipment for instance. We would go on parade on Monday night and we were carrying a sword!
Roger Page
Navy • Home Town: Donnacona, Quebec
I could see lights in the distance, and explosions. Hundreds of bombers were flying over us.
Robert “Bob” Petersen
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Fernand Trepanier
Army Listen Audio Interview
George Kelley
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Lawrence Wagg
Army Listen Audio Interview
John Edwards
Merchant Navy • Home Town: Halifax, Nova Scotia
I was 51 times across the North Atlantic and 12 times around the Cape of Good Hope. How many times I crisscrossed the Indian Ocean, I do not remember.
Kate Clendenning
Army • Home Town: Kent Bridge, Ontario
A knock came to the door and these two men stood there with a telegram, and they stood there while my father and mother read the telegram, they didn’t leave, they just stood there.
