About 120 veterans and family members have been interviewed as part of an ongoing oral history project by the Canadian War Museum that focuses not on wartime experiences, but on what followed.
Wooden cutouts depicting Canadian soldiers returning home from the First World War are seen at an exhibition commemorating the last 100 days of the First World War, at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Thursday October 25, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred ChartrandThe pride in Blanche Bennett's voice was evident as she vividly recounted the day 80 years ago when she volunteered to serve in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.
Michael Petrou, the research project's lead historian, believes In Their Own Voices will fill a gap in war historiography by highlighting the positive and negative effects on veterans and their families as they moved on with their lives. Bennett was a member of a signals squadron and served as a telephone operator in Halifax until the war ended. She met and married her husband Murray during that time and went on to raise a family of three daughters as her husband embarked on a postwar career in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
By contrast, Toronto-area author Jonathon Reid's experience as the son of a Second World War veteran who was captured after the downfall of Hong Kong is largely one of pain, bewilderment and loss. Back home after the war, he and his wife started a family, but Reid said his father was distant and refused to talk about his experiences. Eventually, he abandoned his family.
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