85 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar combatants and non-combatants alike and by including minorities such as Indigenous diarists and people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, genders, ages, languages, and regions in Canada. Most of the diaries digitized are held in private family archives or in public archives. Clarence Booth, “Nerves start going bad,” diary entry dated April 26, 1916. Diary of Clarence Booth, 1915-1916. Digital Frame 62, The Operation Canada Digital War Diaries Project, MLC Research Centre, Toronto. Courtesy of the Canadian Centre for the Great War (Centre canadien pour la Grande Guerre), Montreal. The author and her team would like to hear from people who have family diaries from the First World War. Contact adminmlc@ryerson.ca with any details, and if you would like to learn more about the project, visit http:/ wardiaries.ca. IreneGammel is Professor ofArts, Literature, andCommunication at Toronto Metropolitan University and Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. A cultural critic on women’s heritage, she researches issues of gender, forgotten artists, and World War I. She held a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture from 2005 to 2018 and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009. She is the author and editor of 14 internationally acclaimed books, including Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity (MIT Press) and Looking for Anne of Green Gables (St. Martin’s Press). Her latest book is I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton (McGill–Queen’s University Press); and co-edited on Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday during a Pandemic. The author is grateful for research assistance by Cameron MacDonald
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