Albert Goodwin, known as “Ginger,” due to his red hair, emigrated to Canada in 1906 and began working in a mine on Vancouver Island.The company Goodwin worked for paid white miners about $4 a day, support workers less and Chinese workers a fraction of that.| Legion Magazine
In October 1918, about 1,000 Canadians a day were dying of the Spanish flu.| Legion Magazine
Excerpts from a memoir written by First World War veteran Charles Henry Savage, born in 1892 in Eastman, Que., who served in Messines, Belgium, in 1915-16.| Legion Magazine