World War II Memorial - Peace River, Alberta - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

As with World War I, during World War II the Canadian Government established the Veteran's Land Act and the department Veterans Affairs.

"In June 1944 the government created the Department of Veterans Affairs to deal with all matters affecting veterans and their dependents, principally medical treatment; rehabilitation of the disabled (which included special veterans' hospitals); education; insurance; welfare; allowances, pensions and loans; and land settlement and housing. The Department was at its busiest in 1947 dealing with returned service people. It is still responsible for Canada's war veterans.

Under the Veterans' Land Act, 1942, over 140,000 veterans sought grants and loans to become full-time farmers, smallholders or commercial fishermen. The Act was also used to purchase kitchen stoves, refrigerators and washing machines for post-war households. Both the Act and Wartime Housing Limited, a Crown company begun in 1941, provided inexpensive, sturdy and permanent houses for returning veterans and the families of those killed in the war.

Veterans' programmes enabled some 50,000 young people to attend university, crowding institutions right across the country; late in the war, universities had had only about that number of students all told. Temporary campuses, sometimes using abandoned wartime factories or prefabricated barracks, were used to accommodate the veteran-students. Carleton University in Ottawa was created mainly to educate veterans."

(See http://www.civilisations.ca/cwm/newspapers/canadawar/veterans_e.html)

Many veterans utilized the land purchase program to obtain a quarter section of land in the Peace River area, much like occurred after the first world war. (See http://www.calverley.ca/BRIEFHISTORY.html)

Property Permission: Public Access instructions: In front of the provincial building - walk right up Access times: From: 6:00 AM To: 9:00 PM Location of waymark: 9621-96 Avenue Peace River, Alberta Canada T8S 1T4 Commemoration: Fellow Citizens who fell Date of Dedication: Not listed Website for Waymark: Not listed

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