Claire Gilbert, archivist and librarian at the Royal BC Museum, looks over a large table brimming with documents and photographs.
"So, we have his letters home, we have some snapshots in here of his young children" she explains.
Gilbert is referring to a remarkable donation of personal records, from the family of Lawrence James Wallace, who was born in 1913 in Metchosin.
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