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Victoria, BC, Canada

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Primary Sources

Claude Dettloff, photographer – City of Vancouver Archives online database. “Wait for me daddy”: British Columbia Regiment, DCO, marching in New Westminster, 1940 (LP 109).

Primary Source Collections

  • Township of Esquimalt Archives
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General

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War and Peace in the Twentieth Century

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