War Memorials

This book contains a list of officers, NCOs, and men from Vancouver's Seaforth Highlanders of Canada who died in the First World War. 

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.

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.

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. 

The Hants County, Nova Scotia, war memorial drew its inspiration from British history, from the creators of Stonehenge to the builders of the British Empire.

Frank Elvin of Guelph, Ontario, was not yet twenty years old when he went missing in action in the last stages of the Battle of the Somme in October 1916. The date on the card likely refers to the date that official notification reached his family.

This bilingual booklet was available for battlefield tourists four years before the Vimy Memorial was unveiled, and remained in distribution until invading Nazi armies in 1940 confiscated the remaining stock of copies.

When the Pugwash war memorial was unveiled in 1922, the souvenir booklet listed not only the area's dead, but those people who had donated to the memorial fund, as well the amounts.