The Yellowknife Historical Museum opens a new exhibit on Remembrance Day, examining the role of Second World War veterans in building the community.
The temporary display joins an existing exhibit, Yellowknifers at War.
Titled Veterans Who Helped Build Yellowknife and the North, the temporary exhibit “honours just a few of the many Second World War veterans who made Yellowknife their home and helped to build up our community and territory,” the Yellowknife Historical Society stated.
William Stirling, Dorothy Carter and Gordon Carter are among the people featured.
The Carters met just after the war, married and eventually moved to Yellowknife in 1971. Gordon had served as an infantryman in the Netherlands and Germany during World War Two, while Dorothy joined the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service.
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Once in Yellowknife, the museum states in its exhibit, Gordon became the superintendent of the YK1 school district among other roles he held. The couple’s children – and some grandchildren – grew up in the city.
More details about their lives, both during the war and in Yellowknife, are contained in the exhibit, alongside artifacts from the war.
The museum society said the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives had provided support and loaned items. Conrad Schubert curated the exhibit.
The Yellowknife Historical Museum is open from 10am until 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday. (After this article was first published, the museum said it will close at 2:30pm on Remembrance Day.)
