The Memory Project

The Memory Project is a national bilingual program whose mandate is to record and share the stories of veterans and currently serving Canadian Forces members. The Memory Project has two branches: The Memory Project is an initiative of the not-for-profit organization Historica Canada and made possible with funding from the Government of Canada through the Departments of Canadian Heritage and Veterans Affairs. The Memory Project Speakers Bureau began in through a collaboration between The Dominion Institute and a small group of Second World War veterans who had been visiting Toronto schools to share their stories.

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The program has since expanded into a diverse community of over 1, volunteers, both veterans and currently serving Canadian Forces personnel. Volunteers share their unique experiences with Canadians in classrooms and community centres across the country. The largest database of oral history online in Canada, The Memory Project Archive grew out of the successful Speakers Bureau, with the aim to preserve veteran stories for future generations.

Beginning in , these stories were audio and video recorded. Memorabilia, including photographs, medals and other wartime artefacts, were digitized and made available online. Stories of the Second World War sent interviewers across Canada, touching three coasts and visiting more than 40 cities and towns, to record Second World War testimonials and artefacts.

That day she hadn't. I panicked and asked every friend of mine to rush to my house.

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They thought I was over reacting, but went anyway. I just knew that it was too late. My gut feeling told me. The friend who messaged me, reached there first and saw that my mum had collapsed to the ground. She had slipped into a coma. It's been 2 years, I still can't digest the fact that she's not around. I still have days where I feel like calling her and talking to her! There's no day that I don't think of my parents and feel like such a unfortunate person.

I dread things like my wedding day, cause I can only picture myself breaking down at the mantap cause the two most important people of my life are there on the most important day of my life. It never gets better. You just get used to the pain. I found my relief in travelling. So I started going to more places. I did a solo trip to Himachal.

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It's the only thing that keeps me sane. Nandini lost her mother in when she was Her mother died waiting for a liver transplant, and it was during her time of struggle they were first made aware of the abysmal conditions of organ donation in India. As a family, they often felt that, they could have done so much more for her. She was far too young and far too spirited and went too soon. So much more to live and give to the world.

She writes about her mom, "Usually, I'm quite articulate - but everything I type seems too trite. My mother was beautiful, creative, warm and inspiring - but I think most of us feel this way about our mothers. Mine was a teacher - she taught English and was loved by her colleagues and students alike. We'd talk about literature and films, we'd travel together often.

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She loved adventures and roller coasters and horror movies. She was a fantastic cook, and I feel like so many of her beautiful recipes are now lost forever - like the shutting down of your favourite restaurant. Our home in Calcutta remains almost exactly as she left it in - her desk, her books, her computer - dusted diligently every day - as if waiting for her to come back any moment and start working. We still haven't parted ways with some of her clothes.

When I go home, I wear her old nighties and salwaar kameezes, and feel closer to her somehow. She comes to us in our dreams, in our thoughts very often. Painful memories of her illness and demise make way for sweeter ones. Still, there are days, when it hits you like a tsunami - on good days, or on sick days, when you almost forget that she's no longer just a phone call away. And you remember all over again.

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Her battle with liver disease was spirited. She never gave up hope.

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Neither did we, till the very last moment. I think as a family we tried our best - but there are still days when we feel we could have done more. The foundation, was solely built to raise awareness and to facilitate changes in the way organ donation works in India. Remembering her friend, she writes, "Its going to be two years since and sometimes I feel like I just saw her yesterday.

For two years i college, she was literally the first face I saw in the morning and the last when I slept. I don't know why I'm writing this, or if this makes sense. But then her going away didn't make sense. How I saw her one day before the accident and then had to deal with never seeing her again. I still have this mug of hers, which she loved in college and used everyday. She had given that mug to me, when we all were leaving home for holidays because she couldn't fit it in her already bloated suitcase. She made me promise not to forget it once I came back to hostel, which i of course didn't, but I had no one to give it too.

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