The Port Hope Archives is calling on the public to help identify soldiers and civilians pictured in photographs taken during both World Wars and decades earlier. The archives has posted a series of photos to its Flickr and Twitter accounts and Facebook page and will continue until November 11.
Port Hope is located in Ontario, about 100 kilometres east of Toronto.
Military Ski Patrol Training, c1940s. Long Family Collection, #2015-25-1-5850B. Credit: Port Hope Archives, Port Hope, Ontario.
The archives explained in a post on Facebook, “If you click on the photograph you will be taken to a larger version where you can zoom in to see faces.”
The Northumberland News reported on one success story, “On Oct. 23, the Archives posted a photo of an unknown soldier photographed outsides the Port Hope post office circa 1940 and within two days learned the soldier’s name.”
The archives encourages people to share these photographs with family and friends to help identify the mystery people.
