Canada’s War:

The Lost Colour Archives

What’s in your basement? Do you have colour home movie footage taken during the war years, either at home or abroad - images that capture what life was like in the 1930s and 1940s? Did you keep a diary or write a letter to a loved one overseas? Have you held onto letters and notes received during the war? 

Made to coincide with the 60th anniversary of D-Day in June, 2004, “Canada’s War: The Lost Colour Archives” is a three-part series telling the compelling story of Canada during World War II, through the exclusive use of colour footage of Canadians at war and at home. The program will air on CBC-Television and is being produced by YAP Lost Archives Productions Inc./YAP Films Inc., Toronto, Canada.

This important series will enable a new generation to understand the sacrifice of a nation and experience for themselves what drove it to victory.  After seeing images of World War II in colour, Canadians will never think of their past in the same way again.

Much of this footage has never been seen before, sitting for decades in the storage rooms of the world’s great archives and in home movie collections of private Canadians across the country.

Until now....

If you have colour film footage, letters or diaries,

please contact us ASAP!  Rebecca Ruddle, Series Researcher at

(416) 504-6662, ext. 237

1-866-927-3456

e-mail: rruddle@yapfilms.com