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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

In 1916, Sir Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, a Canadian who had settled in England, took it upon himself to form a committee that would oversee the creation of an official pictorial record of Canada's effort in the First World War, to be known as the Canadian War Memorials. A similar undertaking was initiated by H.O. McCurry, the director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1939 to 1955, to record the Canadian military presence in the Second World War, resulting in what would be known as the Canadian War Records Collection. A monumental building to house the two war collections, designed by the British architect E.A. Rickards, was also proposed, but the ambitious project was never realized. By 1950 the combined collections from the two wars numbered over 5,000 works. The majority of them were transferred to the Canadian War Museum in 1971.  2, record 1, English, - Canadian%20War%20Records%20Collection

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish