DUBOIS, JOSEPH EDWARD LAWRENCE, RCAF Service Book “Pay Book”, Second World War Service Files – War Dead, 1939 to 1947. As mentioned, interpreting the records you find can help you tell a story rather than just display your research. In the case of PO Dubois, we looked to his squadron...
You can find the men’s individual personnel records by searching their names, or by entering “No. 2 Construction Battalion” in the “Unit” field in our database. Each file has been completely digitized and includes detailed information about the individual’s life, family and military servi...
He was practising catching fly balls on the left-field incline, a professional to the core even after so many World Series and so many records it takes calculation machines the size of election coverage computers to list them all. There was a curiously sad tableau taking place in the park a...
When it comes to the census returns, typically we explain that, as an archive, we acquire the census returns as they are—even when the writing is blurry or unreadable—ashistoricalrecords. We also strive to maintain the records’ original order and context. For the 1931 census returns, main...
(WW1). As I had worked on the massive digitization project to make available the files for everyone who fought for Canada in WW1, I searched Peter’s name and found hisfile. That file referenced Peter’s brother’s son,Flying Officer Richard Robert Chappise, who died in action in the...