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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS (440 PRODUCTIONS):
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- Wartime Heritage has produced live presentations of the stories, music, and songs of WWII in partnership with Royal Canadian Legion and Royal British Legion branches, Veterans organisations, community theatres and art centres as far back as 1992.
Since 2004, stage productions have been presented as part of the Association's Time to Remember Performance Tour Series. The Association presented its newest 440 Productions musical, Echoes of the Forties - Songs and Stories of a Wartime Generation with 6 performances across Nova Scotia in 2008.
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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION:
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- Wartime Heritage undertakes research of World War II Veteran participation during the war years. This research is undertaken by individual Association members, and by young people through Wartime Heritage Projects in partnership with the Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School.
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REMEMBRANCE EVENTS and INITIATIVES:
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- The VETERANS RETURN initiative coordinates visits to host Veterans and their families who wish to visit Nova Scotia; allowing WWII Veterans to visit the sites on which they served in wartime. Since 2005, the Association has hosted 7 visitors from Australia and the UK. The following Second World War Veterans and their families have taken part in Veterans Return:
> WWII Veteran Eric May visited Yarmouth in September 2005
Read the news item, “Fallen Comrades Remembered 61 Years Later” regarding his visit.
> Marilynne Darroch, Annette Moulds and Judi Trent (WWII Veteran Bill West’s daughters) visited Yarmouth in October 2008
Read the news item, “Following in their father's footsteps” regarding their visit.
> WWII Veteran Leslie Hodges visit Yarmouth in August 2011
Read the news item, “British East Camp Veteran returns to Yarmouth” regarding his visit.
- Wartime Heritage members also participate in various public and private Remembrance Services both in Canada and England.
Wreaths are laid by Wartime Heritage in Nova Scotia, at various Remembrance Day Ceremonies on November 11th. In England, wreaths are laid on behalf of Wartime Heritage by members of the Royal British Legion Downs Branch at Remembering Sunday services.
In 2009, the Association restored the Commemorative Bench at the East and West Camp WWII Memorial in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to commemorate the Centenary of Naval Aviation - Fly Navy 100 (December 2007 marks the 65th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Telegraphist Air Gunners at East Camp, RCAF Station Yarmouth, in 1944).
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WAR EXHIBITS AND DISPLAYS:
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- Wartime Heritage presents public war exhibits and displays.
The Association mounts displays annually at the Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School during Remembrance Week.
From March - June 2008, the Association presented a new Wartime Heritage Exhibit at the Yarmouth Mall.
Opened in November 2010, the Association now has an ongoing Wartime Heritage Exhibit at the Yarmouth International Airport.
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CD and DVD PRODUCTION:
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- Wartime Heritage has produced wartime music and video presentations.
To purchase a CD go to ' CDs & Videos '
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