To commemorate the Royal Canadian Legion’s 100th anniversary, the Regina branch has launched a digital collection on MemorySask with more than 2,000 historical Saskatchewan military photos, letters and documents.
The branch is asking the public to help identify some of the people in the photographs.
The digital collection can be browsed or searched.
Kelsey Lonie, collections manager at the Regina Legion Museum, told the CBC that many of the photographs were donated by family members of people who have died.
“For the past almost 100 years they’ve been collecting and maintaining and holding artifacts in their collection that veterans donate or families bring in,” Ms. Lonie said.
“But a lot of it wasn’t described, and it wasn’t written down who these people were, because at the time everybody knew. But now when we find these items in our collection, we don’t always know.”
Anyone who recognizes an unidentified person on the site is encouraged to reach out to the organization by email at museum@reginalegion.com.
The CBC article about this collection includes a short video.
