Before there are no voices left to record, a group of high school students are looking to capture the stories of local Canadian Armed Forces veterans.
"Ranjit Gill, our executive director, is a really big proponent on military families and providing support and she came up with the idea," said Katherine Carlson, curator at the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum.
"And it is a really good idea to start interviewing our elders, particularly veterans, because those stories are going to be lost and we don't want to see that happen."
The museum held an exhibit called Kandahar Through Afghan Eyes 2010 from Jan. 20 to March 20 in 2012. During that time, Marlo Wales, a history teacher at College Heights secondary, who is passionate about military history, brought her students to the exhibit and met Gill at the museum.
When the idea came to Gill to record the veterans' stories, she approached Wales who has several students interested in the project.
"The process is to do the interviews and then transcribe them and we will present the information in the form of an exhibit," said Carlson.
"We are hoping to have sound bites so you can hear the voice of the veteran and then we'll have their stories posted as vignettes around the exhibit along with some artifacts hopefully and I know that there are a few letters that may be available that will be posted as well."
Carlson encourages all veterans to get involved.
"This is an important project," she said.
If interested call Carlson at the museum at 250-563-7351 or email: [email protected].
