Only 10 days left to visit New Brunswickers in Wartime

March 29, 2012

 Ottawa, Ontario, March 28, 2012—Visitors to the War Museum have only two more weeks to discover the dramatic adventures, daily struggles, heroic acts and touching memories of New Brunswickers who served overseas and on the home front, in uniform or as civilians during the First and Second World Wars. New Brunswickers in Wartime, 1914–1946 closes at the end of the day on Vimy Ridge Day—April 9, 2012.

 “New Brunswickers in Wartime, 1914–1946 has been a great fit for the War Museum because it brings to light many individual stories,” said James Whitham, Acting Director-General of the Canadian War Museum. “We are very pleased that this exhibition has resonated with our visitors, who come from all over Canada.”

Since the exhibition opened in December, visitors have learned about people like Charles Lawson, a Saint John high school teacher, who enlisted in February of 1915 and died in Belgium nine months later; Margaret Pictou Labillois, from the Eel River Bar First Nation, who worked in photo reconnaissance for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and later became the first woman in New Brunswick to be elected a Mi’kmaq chief; and Flight Lieutenant Gerald Carty, who flew 35 missions with Bomber Command and was a groundbreaker as one of the youngest commissioned officers in the RCAF. 

The New Brunswick Museum first developed the exhibition in 2005 to commemorate the Year of the Veteran and the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. It travelled to Saint John, Moncton and Edmundston before opening in the National Capital last December. 

The Canadian War Museum is Canada’s national museum of military history. Its mission is to promote public understanding of Canada’s military history in its personal, national, and international dimensions.

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Yasmine Mingay
Manager, Public Affairs
Canadian War Museum
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yasmine.mingay@warmuseum.ca

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Communications and Media Relations Officer
Canadian War Museum
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avra.gibbs-lamey@warmuseum.ca

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