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Hedley John Goodyear

In his M.A. thesis, “Newfoundland and its political and commercial relation to Canada,” he argued that its future lay in a confederation with Canada.

Archibald Ernest Graham McKenzie

McKenzie was undoubtedly New Brunswick’s most distinguished soldier in World War I.

Reginald John Godfrey Bateman

War, he said, “is the one supreme, the only entirely adequate test of a nation’s spiritual quality."

Roderick Ogle Bell-Irving

Before the conflict would end, all of Henry Bell-Irving’s six sons were in the armed forces and two of his four daughters served as nurses.

Charles James Townshend Stewart

He has the vitality of Hercules but remains normal by undermining operations, such as fifty cigarettes a day and the output of a whiskey factory.

William Egerton Hodgins

Both of his sons also served with distinction in the war, and one, Frederick Owen, would die in 1924.

John Bernard (Don) Brophy

Brophy’s diary is one of only two known diaries written by Canadian airmen during the war, and the only one relating to the Western Front.

Gordon Charles Davidson

Had he lived, Davidson would no doubt have made significant contributions to Canadian – and most particularly British Columbian – historical writing.

Visiting “No Man’s Land”

A family trip to Vimy in 1936.

Arthur Barnett

Volunteering for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in early 1916, Arthur Barnett took part in the Battle of Vimy Ridge with the 116th Battalion.