19 May 2025
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  • Crestwood Oral History Project

    Augusta Bansbach (neé Menzel)

    Augusta Bansbach (née Menzel) was born on October 9, 1921, in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. She came of age during a time of immense political upheaval. It was also a period of global conflict. [Read more]
  • Crestwood Oral History Project

    Wilbur S. Bryans

    Wilbur Showell Bryans was born April 3, 1922 in Sullivan Township, Ontario. Assigned to the Royal Canadian Medical Corps and stationed in Basingstoke, UK, he witnessed many horrific injuries sustained through combat. Growing up on [Read more]
  • Crestwood Oral History Project

    Ray C. Cameron

    When war broke out Ray Cameron was living on a farm in Lindsay, Ontario. As a 16 year old he was already working on the Great Lakes as a seaman. When Norway was pulled into [Read more]
  • Crestwood Oral History Project

    George Markow

    George Markow was born April 14, 1921 in Russia, just outside the city of Leningrad. He was born just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and George remembers the impacts it had on [Read more]
  • Crestwood Oral History Project

    Donald C. White

    Don White, from Toronto, ON was eager to join the war effort. He signed up first thing in the morning on his 18th birthday and was sent to training in Saskatchewan later that very night. [Read more]

Latest published profiles

Crestwood Oral History Project

Lorne Winer

22 May 2022 0

Born November 7, 1917 Mr. Irwin Lorne Winer remembered life in the downtown slum of Toronto known as the Ward where he came of age during the depths of the Great Depression. Growing up in [Read more]

Crestwood Oral History Project

Jack Reid

22 May 2022 0

Jack Reid was born in Toronto, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943. Working as a depth charge operator on the HMCS Longueil (K672), Mr. Reid participated in numerous convoys of military and supply [Read more]

Crestwood Oral History Project

Ralph Goldman

22 May 2022 0

Ralph Goldman was born in Iwaniska, Poland on July 25, 1921. He came to Canada as an infant, early in the 1920s, and he grew up in down-town Toronto against the backdrop of the Great [Read more]

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In the Spotlight

Clarence Smoyer

by Lars McKie in Signees 0

Clarence Edward Smoyer, born in 1923 in Pennsylvania, served as a tank gunner in the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division, known as the “Spearhead Division,” during World War II. Drafted in 1943, he underwent training [Read more]

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