THE FRASER VALLEY DURING WW II

THE SECOND WORLD WAR had a massive impact on Canada and, while historians have examined the war years extensively, the bulk of the literature has employed a national or international lens. While the war was a global event, recent scholarship, in Canada and elsewhere, suggests that the people on the home front experienced these distant conflicts from within their own “hometown horizons.”  Local experiences then, are not merely microcosms of the national war experience; they are the national war experience, replicated thousands of times across the country. This new direction in scholarship is only just developing as of 2011, and the students' websites make available original research that is a genuine and important contribution to our understanding of what the war meant to the average Canadian.