Remembering

The veterans of Walkerton, Ontario, held a parade to honour Captain Peter F. McCue of Formosa, Ontario, who served through the First World War with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, after his death at age 51 on 4 April 1930. 

The city of Edmonton, Alberta, held a public reception to celebrate the return of the 49th Battalion from active service overseas on 22 March 1919. This program from the reception contains the names of the returned soldiers, as well as correspondence regarding a wounded soldier's pay, left inside by its former owner.

This veterans' calendar from 1939 features a reproduction Edgar Bundy's painting of the 1st Canadian Division landing at St Nazaire, France, in 1915.

During the First World War, Westville was at the heart of the coal-mining industry in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In 1933, one of its churches remembered the dead - and the survivors.

This souvenir from the First World War contains photos of British officials, and Canadian soldiers from the warfront in Europe.

Private D.M. Edgar of Hayter, Alberta  the only child of J. and E. Edgar, was killed in action March 31st, 1917.

Clarence E. Orr, a gunner of the 70th Battery CFA suffered medical complications at the base hospital in Toronto, Ontario and passed away on March 6, 1918 at the young age of 17 years and five months. 

Close to 75 000 nurses, veterans, and family members of the deceased, met at the site to commemorate the Battle of Vimy Ridge with the unveiling of the Vimy monument by his majesty King Edward VIII, on July 27th, 1936. First World War RAF veteran, Walter J. Kerley took these photos on his journey, the day after the unveiling.

This program is from the 18th annual dinner for the Canadian Cavalry Association at Hotel London in October, 1933. Programs like this would have occupied the seat of the veteran it was meant for, in this case, Captain Wellwood.

First World War veteran organizations continued to meet into the Second World War. This program was for the 10th Battalion Association’s Pacific Coast Branch annual dinner in Vancouver, British Columbia, in April, 1940.