Posts Tagged ‘Canadian War Museum’

“Almost every community has a Legion branch and I thought it was important to document what was going on there,” says photographer Tobi Asmoucha. The result of her work over a couple of years will be the subject of a new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, running from Jan. 15 until Nov. 20. Asmoucha, 42, who grew up in Vancouver, but has lived in Toronto for many years, said she had some exposure to Legion branches from going to weddings, but had never really studied them until she received an assignment to do so for Canadian Geographic magazine in [...]

It’s not all that easy to restore a 67-year-old truck. Just ask Jim Whitham, the collections manager at the Canadian War Museum, as he’s just spent many, many months working on—and trying to find parts for—a 1941 Fordson model E83 that was used in England during the Second World War as an emergency food van. But now he’s almost done. They’re still waiting on a few parts to arrive from England in order to get the old girl running again, but at least the cosmetic restoration is done. And quite a restoration it was, as The Royal Canadian Legion donated $5,000 to the [...]