Remembering

The Royal Canadian Legion branch in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, unveiled its war memorial at this service in 1937.

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 war memorial in Canning, Nova Scotia, c1930.

The Dumbells were the most popular soldiers’ concert party in the First World War, and indeed into the 1920s.

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.

The 78th Battalion of Winnipeg continued to hold reunions long after the end of the First World War, including this dinner in 1928.

In 1927, the Canadian Legion held a special service in Toronto as part of a visit by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and Prince George (later King George VI).

This program was distributed at a church service held in Toronto as part of a 1934 reunion of Canadian veterans.

This pamphlet, originally published as a magazine article in 1928, was reprinted as a booklet in response to huge public demand for copies.

This float, inspired by John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields,’ was likely used in a Victory Bond parade late in the First World War.