Oshawa Remembers Project is a narrative story telling project
The Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities( FBSC) a local foundation is spearheading the Oshawa Remembers Project with financial support from Veteran Affairs, Canada Remembers, Community Engagement Fund, local partners and individuals. All of us believe that the words and stories of our Canadian veterans have historical and personal value to current and future generations.
According to the Veterans History Project, US Library of Congress, they are reporting that 1,200 WW 2 and Korean war veterans are dying per day. As these valiant soldiers pass on, we lose each and every day the many insights from their stories and memories.
The Oshawa Remembers Project is a audio narrative project with an onus on short and POV(Point of View) stories. The stories are personal stories of an direct experience or an indirect story about a third party.
All the stories are available in mp3 format on the blog. In addition they are deposited for public consumption and downloading at Internet Archives( http://www.archive.org . Thirdly they are available for community radio Internationally through Public Radio Exchange(PRX) in mp2 and wav formats.
All the stories are free and available under a Creative Common Licence.
The coordinator of the Oshawa Remembers Project is Glenn McKnight( third from Left)
Glenn has a passion for first person story telling, he has a collection of digital stories posted on his New Social Media blog, Visit http://newsocialmedia.wordpress.com
Background on FBSC
FBSC is a foundation involved in a variety of local environmental and social projects in Oshawa including the Oshawa Energy Conservation Fair, Earth Day and UOIT YSTOP forum
The website is http://www.fbsc.org
For contact information
Joan Kerr
Email: joankerr@fbsc.org
mcknight.glenn@gmail.com
Phone
905-434-6655
I am a 35 year Army Veteran who served in Europe, Middle East and South East Asia from the 1960s onward. I am interested in this pogram as it is new to me and I have been the service officer at Branch 637 for 10 years as well I did belong to the Legions “living Historys” speakers group”. My interest is to make contact to obtain more information about the program as I think it is a great idea. Secondly, possibly i could be of assistance or maybe add a contribution who can tell? I tried the phone number for Mr McKnight on page one of the site but it was incorrect so I decided to leave a message. I live in Oshawa and I hope someone will respond to my query. home phone 905-725-2411
regrads Allan F Williams
Neat writing, Will definitely come back again.
How do I send you a photo of Private Earle Trevail, Army
Born: 7 Aug 1892, Died: 26 Sep 1916 Son of Silvanus and Julia (Cornish)) Trevail, Oshawa after which Travail (sp) was named?
Thanks,
Bob Trevail
We, me and my family, met William “Sam” Magee during his stay in The Netherlands on 30th April 2010. On this date we were on the military cemetary on the Holterberg.
He was very interested in our children because they had very nice painted shapes on there faces because of our National Day on 30th April (birthday of our queen). He gave our both children a coin of 25 cents!!
It was very nice talking to him for a while, even to hear from him that he was in world war 2 for 29 months from Canada to Africa to Italie and France.
Dirk Kuperus
Dear William,
We meet today, 5 Mei, 2010 in Terschuur. I hope you have a wonderfull time in Holland. U told me that you want to go home hahaha…but anyway, when u read this u are home in Bowmanville.
It was nice to meet u and to talk with u. And i hope that u write me back.
Lots of love,
Marja Lindeman
http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/continuingeducation/article/1091942–saving-the-montgomery-inn
Re: William Sam McGee;
This is Jamie Novak, replying to your call about the article I was in for the Toronto Star; I called your phone number a few times but no answer. Please call my cell at your earliest convenience. 647-309-1153
Thanks sincerely: Jamie