As the 100th anniversary of World War I was approaching in 2014, members of the Vancouver-Fraser branch of the Canada Post Heritage Club took on the task of locating and researching Canada Post employees who had served during the Great War.
The result is a 226-page document, Honouring Our Own: Canada Post Employees in World War I, that lists 1,312 employees who served in WWI and 132 who were lost. Also included are some postmasters from revenue offices and rural route service providers, even though they were not employees.
To produce the list, branch members Jim Bain, Heather Ferguson, and Joan Garlick researched databases maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs, online city directories, and records maintained by local archives.
The researchers advise their list cannot be considered complete. “Some records of the day are missing vital information and some (are) simply missing. Some individuals did not list their ‘profession or calling’ as Post Office employees but rather as ‘Public Service,’ ‘Civil Service,’ or ‘Public Employee.'”
You can look at Honouring Our Own: Canada Post Employees in World War I here.
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