Canadian War Graves Commission Build Up Database
From the Canadian Legion Magazine May/June 2007 edition
The Dept of Veterans Affairs are catalogueing thousands of Veteran War Graves in Canada. This thanks to a new evolution developed by Veteran Affairs Canada and the Canadian Agency of the Commonwealth Graves Commission.
They are now working to complete a full inventory of up to 200,000 Veteran graves located in both urban and rural Canada from coast to coast.
The object, is once the cemeteries and the graves have been completely inventoried and indexed into a database, they will be kept in decent shape. The first 3 years of the project until 2009 will be locating the Graves some hidden in woods, under grown over grass. Not all are immediately reconnized as some are not marked with a vertical or horizontal marker.
Submitted by Gary Prowse
The Dept of Veterans Affairs are catalogueing thousands of Veteran War Graves in Canada. This thanks to a new evolution developed by Veteran Affairs Canada and the Canadian Agency of the Commonwealth Graves Commission.
They are now working to complete a full inventory of up to 200,000 Veteran graves located in both urban and rural Canada from coast to coast.
The object, is once the cemeteries and the graves have been completely inventoried and indexed into a database, they will be kept in decent shape. The first 3 years of the project until 2009 will be locating the Graves some hidden in woods, under grown over grass. Not all are immediately reconnized as some are not marked with a vertical or horizontal marker.
Submitted by Gary Prowse
Labels: Canada, Veterans Affairs, War Graves
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