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Learn about Hespeler's wartime, as told through photographs and the backstory of ten objects.
Educate yourself in the wartime history of Hespeler with this self-guided photographic artifact exhibition display.
About our Partners
This exhibition was curated by Kaitlin Murray at the Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory, and Popular Culture Research Collection in the History Department at the University of Western Ontario in London. The University of Western Ontario welcomes exhibition feedback and additional contributions of information or images artifacts from participants. Please contact the University of Western Ontario at jvance@uwo.ca.
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Ley and Lois Smith Collection, History Department, Western University, London, Ontario.
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