Signing Up and Training | Exploring SMALL TOWN Canada at War

The Diary and the Mannequin

A portable switchboard in a fold-up wooden case.

A small, black leather bound book used as wartime diary.

A black and white photograph of a battalion and mascots, a moose calf and a bear cub.

Panoramic View Of 159th Battalion

A black and white photograph of a large group of soldiers posing outside a recruiting station.

Recruiting Station

A folded, over-sized song sheet with the music for the song “Rule Britannia.”

"Rule Britannia"

A pair of green metal binoculars.

A photograph of a farmhouse with four people outside.

The Family Farm

A black and white photograph of Byron Cooper Sisler posing with fellow bank employees.

Dominion Bank Employees

A black and white photograph of Byron Cooper Sisler posing with the 37th Battalion.

Machine Gun Corps

A black and white photograph of two groups of soldiers by white military tents at Camp Niagara.

76th Overseas Battalion

A black and white photograph of a group of soldiers forming up into rows during training.

Troops At Camp Niagara

A black and white photograph of a group of soldiers marching, lead by a military brass band.

Trek To Toronto

A black and white photograph of a crowd gathered in front of a midway game.

Caricatures Of Kaiser Wilhelm

A black and white photograph of Canadian soldiers sitting around a phonograph.

Soldiers Around Phonograph

A metal projector used for training in the United States military

A mannequin dressed in winter military camouflage, wearing goggles and carrying skis.

Devil's Brigade Uniform

A mannequin wearing a soldier’s green khaki cap and an undecorated tunic.

Canadian Expeditionary Force

A mannequin is wearing a green khaki cap, a sword, a leather side arm holster and tunic; its cuffs are embellished with three stripes.

Officer’s Tunic

A mannequin wearing a leather radio helmet, a thickly lined, leather bomber jacket, warm trousers and big boots.

Bomber’s Uniform

A black-and-white photograph of a wounded Lieutenant Jack Munroe with his dog

A black and white photograph of Jack Munroe lifting a 600-pound makeshift dumbbell over his head.

Jack Munroe in Golden City

A gold-plated belt buckle inscribed with a crown and “Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry”.

Jack Munroe and his dog sitting with a group of soldiers outside a hospital building.

Munroe With Other Soldiers