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| This photo (posted to X by Kate McKenna of CBC News) was a favorite among the Remembrance Day images. |
I was busy on Monday, walking around west Toronto with Katy Whitfield, whose "They Walked These Streets" puts up small notices, house by house and street by street, of the homes of Canadians who died in the World Wars and other conflicts.
It's an ingenious marrying of new digital research techniques and traditional, "Their names will live forevermore," remembrances. These days, with digital archives, securing personal details on Canadian war dead, can be quick and satisfying. And very moving, particularly when you find your own home or one next to it was the home of someone who went away in 1916 or 1943 and did not return. The project started gaining some media attention recently, like this.
This soldier among those honoured, lived in a house Katy Whitfield lived in many years later:
