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Every family has one. A name on the back of a photograph. A medal in a drawer that nobody can quite explain. A story that got a little shorter every time it was told, until all that’s left is a rank and a rumour. 
Legacy Podcast Episodes put those stories back together.
It’s a fully researched, fully produced episode of Memory and Valour built around one person. Your person. 
Service records, war diaries, the ground they stood on, the world they came home to, or didn’t. All of it shaped into something your family can actually sit down and listen to, and hand forward. 
I know what that’s worth because I did it for my own. My cousin, Flying Officer Harry V. Smith, walked away from a crash landing in the jungle and made it out of Siam. For years he was a half-story told at family gatherings, usually by me. Now he’s an episode.
My family will still have him long after we’ve all forgotten how the telling went.
If there’s someone in your family who deserves more than a line on a certificate, send me a message. I’d love to meet them.
Where memory endures, valour lives on. 
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29 December 2025: New Book Release!
‘Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia’ is a brief history of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
Feedback from Mr. Don Levy, son of Lieutenant Mike Levy regarding the Memory and Valour podcast episode: Once A Patricia, Always A Patricia:
“Hello Samantha
I am one of Mike Levy’s sons. I came across your recent podcast on the PPCLI and wanted to offer my appreciation to you for the work you are doing to preserve the memories of our military veterans and by extension Canadian history. I look forward to reading your book on the Patricias and your future projects.
Don Levy”
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Welcome to the Memory and Valour connect and collaborate page, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.
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Passchendaele. Say it out loud and it already sounds like an ending. Ask most people what they know about it and you’ll get the same handful of words back: mud, futility, generals who didn’t know when to stop. And there’s truth in that shorthand, but it undersells what the place actually was. This wasn’t ordinary…
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Artillery caused roughly six in ten battlefield casualties in the First World War, more than the machine gun, the flamethrower, and the tank combined. That figure comes from the British Army’s own medical and statistical history, published in 1931. It is the weapon that did the most killing in this war, and the one modern…
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The Great War ended on the eleventh of November, 1918. Canada was still fighting in Russia the following June. Between October 1918 and June 1919, this country deployed almost five thousand soldiers into a nation it was not at war with, to fight an enemy it had never declared war on, for reasons its own…
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