When Timothy Shawn Hack was a child, he remembers escaping the boring adults upstairs and heading to the basement of his grandparents' house to have some fun. 

It was down there that he first noticed the framed pictures of Richard Morley Bird, who looked to him more like a "mythical figure" than his maternal great-grandfather. But it wasn't until 2013 that he began to learn more about his family's past while digitizing old records at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, where he works. 

Library and Archives is digitizing the files of all Canadian soldiers who served in the First World War in time for Remembrance Day next year — the centenary of the armistice.


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