Remembering
Vimy Pilgrims in London
This memorial service, at the Cenotaph in London, was convened as part of the Vimy Pilgrimage of 1936.
The 240th Battalion re-forms
Survivors of the 240th Battalion, formed in 1916 in eastern Ontario, came together in Renfrew, Ontario, thirty-two years after the end of the First World War.
War memorial, Sudbury, Ontario
A memorial service at the cenotaph in Sudbury, Ontario, c1930.
Canadian Pacific Railway war memorial
The CPR erected three identical war memorials in its main stations in Montreal, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. A hand-written note on the back of this postcard reads "Folks who have lost put fresh flowers on in memory."
Colours of the 115th Battalion
The last act in the life of a military unit is the laying up of its colours, an honour that is done with great ceremony.
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, war memorial
The Royal Canadian Legion branch in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, unveiled its war memorial at this service in 1937.
A Vimy Pilgrim writes home
In 1936, a Canadian veteran sent this postcard to a friend in Windsor, Ontario, to describe the unveiling of the memorial on the site of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
The Dumbells, “Watchman, What of the Night?”
The Dumbells were the most popular soldiers’ concert party in the First World War, and indeed into the 1920s.
War Trophy
A young woman poses on a German artillery piece, captured by Canadian units in September 1918 and brought back to Canada as a war trophy.