Remembering the Canadian Fallen of the Great War, a personal project.

I started thinking about doing a blog about the soldiers who fought and died for Canada during the Great War about a year ago.  At the time I was working at a job that stretched me as far as I could stretch.  At the same time, I decided to sell my house, and buy a new one, and managed to do that in the first 21 days of August.  All this to say that although the notion of this blog was in the back of my mind, it proved nearly impossible to follow through.  And then, as I realized that the project could involve doing research on 62,305 names, I wondered when I could make it happen.

Then I found a couple of projects that were doing a wonderful job of recording information about all of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and the Newfoundland Regiment.  The Canadian governments Veteran's Affairs Department has a wonderful virtual memorial, which links to photographs of Canada's Books of Remembrance (there are 7) which have a place of honour in the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament buildings.

Photo from Veterans Affairs Canada

So, I have decided to start, almost a year after the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War to do what I have been contemplating for so long.  I'm going to convey the stories I have found about some of the men I have learned about.  And I'm going to remember the fallen Canadians of World War One.