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![Composite image of four individual portraits of a tunneller, nursing sister, soldier, and prisoner of war. The “Cape Breton and the First World War” logo is pictured in the top-centre of the image.](https://www.digitalmuseums.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/beaton-exhibit-eng-1920x760-1.jpg)
Learn about Canada’s involvement in the First World War through the lives of four individuals from Cape Breton Island. Experience personal accounts of the war overseas, explore life on the home front, and engage with interactive resources which help to tell the stories of the people involved in the global conflict that shaped the twentieth century.