The World Remembers

As part of Remembrance Day commemoration activities, the Canadian War Museum will host The World Remembers, a visual projection that presents the names of more than 4,200,000 military personnel from both sides of the First World War, who died between 1914 and 1922. The display at the Museum will run from November 7 to 11, presenting a portion of the names, with the last one displayed at sunset on November 11. Created by Canadian actor R. H. Thomson, The World Remembers presents the names of individuals from Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Turkey, Belgium, Australia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Slovenia, India, Croatia, Austria, South Africa, Poland, Ireland, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China. Canadian names are displayed for 100 seconds, and international names for 23 seconds. Learn more and search through names at theworldremembers.org/search-the-names. Visitors to the Museum are also invited to explore The World Remembers kiosk located in the Museum’s Military History Research Centre. The interactive, touchscreen kiosk allows visitors to read short First World War histories of each participating nation and to explore a gallery of more than 600 photos of soldiers, nurses, the wounded, refugees, war labourers, war mothers, and prisoners submitted by participating nations. Visitors can also search the names of the more than four million people featured, with each name accompanied by details of the casualty’s life. The kiosk also allows visitors to view a 15-minute segment of The World Remembers commemoration names-display for the names they search. Military History Research Centre: November 7 to 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Remembrance Programming – Learn More