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Remembrance Week 2009 Featured Gallery

Below you will find a selection of veteran profiles which represent the incredible stories of service and sacrifice which are currently being collected and archived by The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War. Each profile commemorates the seven days of Remembrance Week.


Malcolm Andrade

Malcolm Andrade | Burlington, Ontario | Air Force

"These little things get to you. You find that when talking to them way after the war, you find out they looked on us, they saw the roundels on our aircraft and they said we were freedom..."

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Jean-Marcel D'Aoust

Jean-Marcel D'Aoust | Montreal, Quebec | Army

"Je me suis enrôlé dans l'armée canadienne comme soldat, et je suis revenu au Canada quatre années plus tard avec le rang d'officier capitaine"

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Gordon Bannerman

Gordon Bannerman | Victoria, British Columbia | Army

"The memories of the fellows that I actually served with during those days, it's a bond closer than brothers."

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Roy Heron

Roy Heron | Montreal, Quebec | Merchant Navy

"I made it a point to be very active and help in the children of both in Holland and in Germany, because kids had nothing to do with the war and they need help and kids were my prime factor..."

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Bob Farquharson

Bob Farquharson | Gleichen, Alberta | Air Force

"I’m Robert Farquharson. I was born in Alberta in 1923, and I started my army experience, well, by joining the militia in my hometown when I was 17 years old. Delia, Alberta, a little town ..."

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Olive Peat

Olive Peat | Emerson, Manitoba | Army

"A lot of us, it was getting out of doing housework for $5 a month. That was the truth. That’s what we did. We worked for $5 a month and got Wednesday afternoon off..."

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Olive Peat

Corinne Sévigny | Montreal, Quebec | Army

"Mais remarquez à ce moment là, les femmes ont entré dans les usines. Ce n’était jamais pensé avant ça! Des milliers de femmes sont entré dans les usines."

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DIEPPE

These veterans discuss their stories from Dieppe. Rollover the images to find out their names. Click on the images to view their full profile.