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B.C. Professor Honoured for Preserving Wartime Letters From Canadian Soldiers

Vancouver Island University professor Stephen Davies received a provincial award on May 3 in Williams Lake for creating the Canadian Letters and Images Project.
He began the project while teaching World War I to provide students online access to about 200 letters from Canadian soldiers in various wars.
The project has grown to digitize over 40,000 letters out of roughly 500,000 files, preserving personal stories that families want to share yet retain physical possession of.
Davies described the collection as “history in the raw” that reflects untold experiences of ordinary soldiers without editing, and noted the site supports a diverse audience from Grade 5 students to professional historians.
Despite lacking government funding, Davies and his team continue the laborious transcription and cataloguing work, aiming to prevent loss of these important historical materials and keep the project growing.

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