After the War: Coming Home and Fitting In At The End of the Great War
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Lougheed House Gallery 707 13 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2R 0K8
Lougheed House, "After the War," 2019
Lougheed House proudly debuts a new national travelling exhibition created by the Canadian Centre for the Great War in Montreal.
March 13, 6:30-9:00 Talk by Dr. William Pratt - Demobilized: The Return of Great War Soldiers to Southern Alberta - Lougheed House
After the War: Coming Home and Fitting In At The End of the Great War is an exhibit of approximately 45 WWI-era photos and artifacts that reveal the experiences of returning Great War veterans, their struggles, and their contributions to Canadian society as we know it today. The exhibit looks at the efforts made by Canadian society to provide support to the over six-hundred thousand members of their veterans population, and their families, who had fought, and in some cases died, for their country in the largest military engagement Canada had experienced. By considering reintegration through several lenses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue will provide insight into the task facing Canadians.
The exhibit also features nine rarely seen artifacts from the Lougheed House collection, including Clarence Lougheed’s Canadian Army Service Corps ID bracelet, a cane presented in 1925 to Sir James Lougheed for his service in the Senate, and a WWI cigar box “trench art” from Canada’s 14th Battalion.
Join us for the exhibit opening on January 24, 5:30 – 8:00 pm. Cash bar & live taping of a podcast conversation between The Military Museums’ Greg Wilson and Caitlin Bailey, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for the Great War.