School Remembrance Projects

Malaspina University-College and University of Western Ontario- "Canadian Letters and Images Project"

The Canadian Letters and Images Project is a permanent online archive that preserves Canada's wartime correspondence, photographs and other personal materials from the battlefront and from the homefront. The project began in August 2000, in the Department of History at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In November 2003, the project partnered with the History Department of the University of Western Ontario. Malaspina students work under the guidance of Dr. Stephen Davies and the students at Western work with Dr. Jonathan Vance, Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture.

The project members believe it is important to collect and recreate the personal side of war, before such material is forever lost or destroyed. To deliver the project material to the public, the Canadian Letters and Images Project works closely with individuals across Canada and other areas. Most donations to the project came from private families who have generously shared their items.

To view the work completed by the students for the "Canadian Letters and Images Project", visit the Malaspina University-College Web site.