Artist: Hubert Rogers.
Source: Canadian War Poster Collection, McGill University Rare Books and Special Collections.
If one or more of your relatives served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War, I recommend you watch a presentation by one of my favourite speakers, Glenn Wright.
Researching Canadians in WWII was delivered at Ontario Ancestors’ Durham Region Branch’s virtual meeting in November this year. It is now available to watch on YouTube.
The presentation focuses on the major sources of information and what we can learn from them, including:
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- service records and how to retrieve them
- interpreting these records
- researching unit war diaries (for the Canadian Army) and operations record books (for the RCAF)
- war dead
- essential websites and more.
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