Artefact of the Week
Margaret Brownlee lifting Millie Davis while performing RCAf Women's Divison fitness exercises in England in 1943.
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From left to right: Colonel Duk Soo Kim, US President Lyndon Johnson, South Korean President Park Chung-hee. Duk Soo Kim is showing Johnson the facilities of the Korean Infantry School during his 1965 visit to South Korea.
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Dorothy Lutz welding in the Halifax Shipyards, Nova Scotia, in 1943.
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Harvey Burns is on an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon with Lorne Jackson from Montreal, who was the loader. Photo taken in October, 1942.
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WRENs VJ-Day parade in Bombay, India, 1945. To find out why Babs Fraser Drennan was nicknamed "The Nightingale of the WRENs" click on her profile!
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How long has the Korean War been termed the “Forgotten War”? How was it given this title? There are a few reasons why the war was labeled as such.
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Herbert Lim in 1946 while working as Chief Radio and Wireless operator onboard a ship sailing from Vancouver to Shanghai.
Continue Reading …Second World War and Korean War veterans will gather in Saskatoon to preserve their stories with The Memory Project
On Monday, October 1st, Second World War and Korean War veterans will gather in Saskatoon to participate in a nation-wide oral history project.
Continue Reading …From Fear to Ruin: Japanese-Canadian Internment During the Second World War
Families, turned on by their own communities, loaded into trucks, and sent to internment camps is an image that immediately stirs up ominous feelings, more so when we realize that this happened in Canada. Over 70 years have passed since the Japanese-Canadian population on the west coast was rounded up, deprived of its property and possessions, and interned in remote camps during the Second World War. While the significance of these events has grown over the years, they are also simultaneously fading from popular memory. The passage of time is slowly claiming an important historical lesson and September 22, the anniversary of the Canadian government’s 1988 Redress Agreement with the National Association of Japanese Canadians, is a day for Canadians to pause, reflect, and continue to remember this event.
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Edith Middleton and other members of the Women's Timber Corps working at a lumber camp in Scotland.
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