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Contents
Chapter One: The Big Men of the War: Premier McBride and General Currie
Chapter Two: Off to War: Training and Trenches
Stories of Camp Life from the Vernon News
Extra, Extra! Get Your Trench Journal!
Chapter Three: Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Courage: Our Victoria Cross Recipients
Chapter Four: BC's Naval Legacy: Improvising to Protect the West Coast
Chapter Five: Our Flying Aces: Daring Young Men
Chapter Six: Journey to Vimy: Canada's Soldiers Come of Age
Victor Gordon Tupper, MC: His Biography and Letters
Chapter Seven: Two Horsemen, Two Solitudes: George McLean and Gordon Flowerdew
Walhachin: A Gentlemanly Occupation
Chapter Eight: First Nations Soldiers: So Many Served
Aboriginal Soldiers from the North Coast
Chapter Nine: Canada's Nursing Sisters: Our Daughters on the Front Lines
Chapter Ten: BC Women and the Great War: Breaking Barriers
Chapter Eleven: Tales the Cenotaphs Tell: Sacrifice, Remembrance and Commemoration
Remembrance at Fort Langley Cemetery
Charlie’s Tree: A Veteran’s Remembrance
Chapter Twelve: They Fought for Canada, But They Couldn’t Vote
Saving Vancouver’s Japanese Canadian War Memorial
Sergeant Major Masumi Mitsui, MM—Hero of the 10th Battalion
Chapter Thirteen: They Chose Not to Fight: Socialists, Pacifists and Deserters
Chapter Fourteen: BC’s Internment Camps: Behind the Barbed Wire
The Spy Scare—Truth or Fiction?
Chapter Fifteen: The War’s Lasting Legacy: Inspiring Arts, Culture and Sports
Chapter Sixteen: Victory, but at What Cost?
A City Goes to War: Victoria’s War Story on the Web
Marking Sacrifice: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
