Two new exhibits have opened at the Billy Bishop Home and Museum in Owen Sound.
It was a packed house for the ribbon cutting Wednesday night with family members of those featured in exhibits, supporters and other visitors. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Conservative MP Alex Ruff spoke at the ribbon cutting as well as Grey County Warden Brian Milne.
One exhibit is called, In Their Steps/Through Their Eyes.
The other is called Crusaders Serving the World: Going to War with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
In Their Steps/Through Their Eyes was researched and put together by Owen Sound District Secondary School Students who traveled to France to mark the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy.
The exhibit received financial support from the Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Foundation.
The other exhibit, ‘Crusaders Serving the World’: Going to War with the Royal Canadian Air Force marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
With support from the RCAF Centennial Fund, the exhibit features fourteen local airmen and women and the RCAF Women’s Division, British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Ferry Command, Bomber Command and Fighter Command.
Museum Curator Morgan Woodhouse says of those being highlighted, “It’s an incredible mix of people. That’s one of the things I found so surprising is the backgrounds of the people that we’ve highlighted. There were farmers to bank clerks to hotel workers to lawyers and they all ended up in the same air force and in service.”
