The Memory Project: News

Feature of the Week: The Battle of Kap'yong

Apr 23, 2013 Blog Alex Herd

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry cross a log bridge in Korea in February 1951. John McCall is the soldier sixth from the front of the column. John McCall.

22-25 April marks the anniversary of the Battle of Kap'yong in 1951, when 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, along with Australian, British, and New Zealand troops, stopped an enemy offensive in the hills of Korea.

Artefact of the Week

Apr 22, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

CBC's Normand Eaves (standing) and Norman McBain (kneeling) interview Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Dextraze, commanding officer, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment in Korea.

Remembering Joseph Wilson, The Last Survivor of HMCS Esquimalt

Apr 16, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

In April 2012, Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Esquimalt requested the audio recording and artefacts of Joseph Wilson, a veteran interviewed by the Memory Project. Wilson was the last living survivor of the sinking of the warship HMCS Esquimalt at the end of the Second World War before he passed away in January 2012. CFB Esquimalt was putting together a video on Wilson’s commemoration and burial at sea and asked for any material the Memory Project could share and the Memory Project was happy to oblige.

Artefact of the Week

Apr 15, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

Left to right: Jeff Jeffries, Elizabeth Cole, Joan Boyer (on the right), and Cec Lyle (with Bren gun), 1944.

Veterans in the family? How the Memory Project can help.

Apr 11, 2013 Blog Jill Paterson

Family Caregivers Unite! Click here to listen

Making memories and sharing memories

Here are a few quick pieces of advice on how you can connect with your veteran parent or grandparent

Artefact of the Week

Apr 8, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

Raphael Dael in the trench-works of the front line positions in Korea.

Artefact of the Week

Apr 2, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

"It was rather a sad time for us because so many of the officers that came back that were wounded, they’d probably been ones we’d danced with." Bertha Hull.

Guide to the Memory Project Archive

Apr 1, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

The Memory Project is a nationwide bilingual project to record and share the stories of Canada’s veterans. The Memory Project staff has compiled this guide to give website users some suggestions on how to search the Memory Project's thousands of veteran stories.

Artefact of the Week

Mar 25, 2013 Blog The Memory Project/Le Projet Mémoire

Three dispatch riders on Harley Davidsons in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1945.

Artefact of the Week

Mar 18, 2013 Blog

Paratroopers training on landing slides, Rivers, Manitoba, 1952.