Hello all,

This morning I met with the volunteer from Oak Bay archives that is compiling a list of WWI veterans. He is interested in working together to compile the list so that we can share the information. Caroline Duncan from Saanich Archives was at Oak Bay today and we tentatively planned a meeting with the archivists and main volunteers from the municipal archives in Greater Victoria for June 12. I'm working on making contacts at the UVic library so that we can offer to digitize some materials for Saanich (and possibly other archives who don't have the resources to digitize larger items). I'll keep you up to date on that planning.

In the afternoon I met with a contact from the View Royal Archives who provided me with photos of her father, who was a POW held in Germany for 3 years. She also has an oral history that I now have the transcript for. The audio file is held in the Canadian War Museum so I am going to be in contact with them to see if they have digitized the file from the cassette form. If not, we can include the transcript or see if we are able to digitize it in the library. I'll upload those to dropbox tomorrow.

I've also been contacting band offices today. I haven't had much luck yet but I'm waiting to hear back from some offices.

I uploaded my contact list into my folder on dropbox. Feel free to use any of the contacts if you need them.