In a project led by Western history Jonathan Vance, more than 400 replicas of postcards sent during the First World War are being mailed back to the original Canadian addresses that received them. (Steve Anderson/Western Communications)
In a project led by Western history Jonathan Vance, more than 400 replicas of postcards sent during the First World War are being mailed back to the original Canadian addresses that received them. (Steve Anderson/Western Communications) In advance of Remembrance Day, 400 Canadian households receive replica cards, words from the front Western history professor Jonathan Vance likens them to today's text messages. Postcards sent from Europe by the men and women who served Canada during the First World War. "The postcard was used to communicate quick thoughts, and they flew around in the millions during that time," said Vance , a Distinguished University Professor and military scholar. Over the past 15 years, Vance has read thousands of the postcards, archived as part of the Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection , and accessible to the public through the Wartime Canada website. The cards carry messages from - or pictures of - those who served during the war, from 1914 to 1918. Now Vance is delighted to share those messages and pictures more widely through a special project, in which more than 400 replicas of the postcards are being mailed back to the original Canadian addresses that received them.
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