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![Marcel Morissette]({"id":"145343ca-e132-41f4-a404-7c91cf163dfe","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"9773_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":254606,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:17.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:17.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #9773","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Wash day on Sunday. The soldiers had automatic clothes washers, but they had to dry their clothes outside. Marcel Morissette is on the right with her partner Marcel Dandurand. Camp Borden (ON), 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9773 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9773_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9773_original.jpg","credit":"Marcel Morissette","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"145343ca-e132-41f4-a404-7c91cf163dfe","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":1},"translations":[{"id":"b618b441-eb93-4c4b-9037-0a9975515e86","media_id":"145343ca-e132-41f4-a404-7c91cf163dfe","title":"Memory Project Image #9773","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Wash day on Sunday. The soldiers had automatic clothes washers, but they had to dry their clothes outside. Marcel Morissette is on the right with her partner Marcel Dandurand. Camp Borden (ON), 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9773 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"en","credit":"Marcel Morissette"},{"id":"e8bc9140-d7a3-44c9-87a2-42ccccb284e5","media_id":"145343ca-e132-41f4-a404-7c91cf163dfe","title":"Memory Project Image #9773","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Jour de lavage le dimanche. Les soldats disposaient de laveuses automatiques, mais ils devaient faire s\u00e9cher leur linge \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieur. Marcel Morissette se trouve \u00e0 droite avec son compagnon Marcel Dandurand. Camp Borden (Ont.), 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9773 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"fr","credit":"Marcel Morissette"}]} "Memory Project Image #9773")
Marcel Morissette
Wash day on Sunday. The soldiers had automatic clothes washers, but they had to dry their clothes outside. Marcel Morissette is on the right with her partner Marcel Dandurand. Camp Borden (ON), 1944.
Marcel Morissette
![Marcel Morissette]({"id":"57d657c7-bd45-4465-84dd-9f30e426bcea","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"9776_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":302522,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:23.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:23.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #9776","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Photo taken outside of Camp Borden (ON). This type of truck was used to transport the tools used by mechanics like Marcel Morissette to repair damaged vehicles in convoys.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9776 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9776_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9776_original.jpg","credit":"Marcel Morissette","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"57d657c7-bd45-4465-84dd-9f30e426bcea","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":2},"translations":[{"id":"a894fb9d-4c2c-41b2-ba63-e5582ab0db05","media_id":"57d657c7-bd45-4465-84dd-9f30e426bcea","title":"Memory Project Image #9776","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Photo taken outside of Camp Borden (ON). This type of truck was used to transport the tools used by mechanics like Marcel Morissette to repair damaged vehicles in convoys.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9776 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"en","credit":"Marcel Morissette"},{"id":"fa5093a3-7bb9-4308-b697-1a00354833ef","media_id":"57d657c7-bd45-4465-84dd-9f30e426bcea","title":"Memory Project Image #9776","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Photo prise \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieur du Camp Borden (Ont.). Ce type de camion servait au transport des outils utilis\u00e9s par les m\u00e9caniciens comme Marcel Morisette afin de r\u00e9parer les v\u00e9hicules endommag\u00e9s lors de convois.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9776 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"fr","credit":"Marcel Morissette"}]} "Memory Project Image #9776")
Marcel Morissette
Photo taken outside of Camp Borden (ON). This type of truck was used to transport the tools used by mechanics like Marcel Morissette to repair damaged vehicles in convoys.
Marcel Morissette
![Marcel Morissette]({"id":"68f2f4ee-78ff-4c34-893c-38a262d6668e","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"9775_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":334368,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:21.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:21.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #9775","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"This kind of truck with a trailer was used for the towing of damaged armored vehicles or other vehicles that suffered from accident or mechanical failures. Camp Borden (ON), Fall 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9775 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9775_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9775_original.jpg","credit":"Marcel Morissette","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"68f2f4ee-78ff-4c34-893c-38a262d6668e","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":3},"translations":[{"id":"00a7960b-8509-4c31-ba65-4fa9186e2955","media_id":"68f2f4ee-78ff-4c34-893c-38a262d6668e","title":"Memory Project Image #9775","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"This kind of truck with a trailer was used for the towing of damaged armored vehicles or other vehicles that suffered from accident or mechanical failures. Camp Borden (ON), Fall 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9775 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"en","credit":"Marcel Morissette"},{"id":"6522ebe4-0e5f-4212-b595-918b38adc2cf","media_id":"68f2f4ee-78ff-4c34-893c-38a262d6668e","title":"Memory Project Image #9775","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Ce genre de camion avec une remorque servit en train pour le remorquage de blind\u00e9s en panne ou autre v\u00e9hicule accident\u00e9 ou en panne m\u00e9canique. Camp Borden (Ont.), automne 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9775 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"fr","credit":"Marcel Morissette"}]} "Memory Project Image #9775")
Marcel Morissette
This kind of truck with a trailer was used for the towing of damaged armored vehicles or other vehicles that suffered from accident or mechanical failures. Camp Borden (ON), Fall 1944.
Marcel Morissette
![]({"id":"69091c50-438c-4a29-889d-287d87bff268","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"13037_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":254606,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T03:54:53.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T03:54:53.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #13037","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #13037 - Veteran #4661","source":"","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/13037_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/13037_original.jpg","credit":"","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"69091c50-438c-4a29-889d-287d87bff268","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":4},"translations":[{"id":"3ff46f80-a35b-4ca2-ba5d-dac3a4c8f056","media_id":"69091c50-438c-4a29-889d-287d87bff268","title":"Memory Project Image #13037","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #13037 - Veteran #4661","source":"","locale":"en","credit":""},{"id":"e456a179-e752-44a0-99f2-dd179588c487","media_id":"69091c50-438c-4a29-889d-287d87bff268","title":"Memory Project Image #13037","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #13037 - Veteran #4661","source":"","locale":"fr","credit":""}]} "Memory Project Image #13037")
![Marcel Morissette]({"id":"8540d111-87b3-424b-9a4a-ff9a706f0c6c","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"9774_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":361342,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:19.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:19.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #9774","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Marcel Morissette in a jeep on a Sunday during a day off. Hours worked in the garage were mostly on weekdays, Monday through Friday. Camp Borden (ON), July 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9774 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9774_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9774_original.jpg","credit":"Marcel Morissette","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"8540d111-87b3-424b-9a4a-ff9a706f0c6c","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":5},"translations":[{"id":"533e24f5-85b1-43e0-a45b-2de7f2938294","media_id":"8540d111-87b3-424b-9a4a-ff9a706f0c6c","title":"Memory Project Image #9774","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Marcel Morissette in a jeep on a Sunday during a day off. Hours worked in the garage were mostly on weekdays, Monday through Friday. Camp Borden (ON), July 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9774 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"en","credit":"Marcel Morissette"},{"id":"4652b15e-b046-4bc9-8ad3-472310c0f697","media_id":"8540d111-87b3-424b-9a4a-ff9a706f0c6c","title":"Memory Project Image #9774","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Marcel Morissette \u00e0 bord d'une jeep un dimanche pendant un jour de cong\u00e9. Les heures travaill\u00e9es au garage \u00e9taient essentiellement en semaine, du lundi au vendredi. Camp Borden (Ont.), juillet 1944.","creator":"Memory Project Image #9774 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"fr","credit":"Marcel Morissette"}]} "Memory Project Image #9774")
Marcel Morissette
Marcel Morissette in a jeep on a Sunday during a day off. Hours worked in the garage were mostly on weekdays, Monday through Friday. Camp Borden (ON), July 1944.
Marcel Morissette
![Marcel Morissette]({"id":"f2324060-5079-4abc-8873-52d07f1e0d7a","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"9777_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":504419,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:25.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T01:33:25.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #9777","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Montage showing Mr. Morisette's identification plates. As he says, \"I asked the officer what I should do with these medals made \u200bof \u200bfiber, not of copper. He said: \"When you will be killed, we will send one plate to your loved ones . \"Mr. Morissette added: \"That's not answer to give to a 19 year old boy who has never left his village!\"\r\rThe other object is a book on the return to civilian life. Mr. Morissette: \"This book allowed me to buy my house, for I have learned in this book in Article 102 that I could do it. I bought it with assistance from the Government of Canada in 1950 at a price of $ 5 500, which I repaired and enlarged. Today, the house is valued at $ 156,000. Thanks to the army. \"","creator":"Memory Project Image #9777 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9777_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/9777_original.jpg","credit":"Marcel Morissette","pivot":{"mediable_id":"f1e7c3c4-62ee-4ff7-83c0-b61435b86f9f","media_id":"f2324060-5079-4abc-8873-52d07f1e0d7a","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":6},"translations":[{"id":"ae42a74e-f082-4f56-8cea-8bf5ea48070b","media_id":"f2324060-5079-4abc-8873-52d07f1e0d7a","title":"Memory Project Image #9777","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Montage showing Mr. Morisette's identification plates. As he says, \"I asked the officer what I should do with these medals made \u200bof \u200bfiber, not of copper. He said: \"When you will be killed, we will send one plate to your loved ones . \"Mr. Morissette added: \"That's not answer to give to a 19 year old boy who has never left his village!\"\r\rThe other object is a book on the return to civilian life. Mr. Morissette: \"This book allowed me to buy my house, for I have learned in this book in Article 102 that I could do it. I bought it with assistance from the Government of Canada in 1950 at a price of $ 5 500, which I repaired and enlarged. Today, the house is valued at $ 156,000. Thanks to the army. \"","creator":"Memory Project Image #9777 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"en","credit":"Marcel Morissette"},{"id":"f152317a-ab1c-44e7-8576-003b54b455ca","media_id":"f2324060-5079-4abc-8873-52d07f1e0d7a","title":"Memory Project Image #9777","alt":"Marcel Morissette","caption":"Montage montrant les plaques d'identification de Marcel Morissette. Comme il le mentionne: \"J'ai demand\u00e9 \u00e0 l'officier ce que je dois faire de ces m\u00e9dailles faites de fibre et non de cuivre. Il m'a dit: Lorsque tu seras tu\u00e9, on va envoyer une plaque \u00e0 tes proches.\" M. Morissette d'ajouter: \"Tu parles d'une r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 donner \u00e0 un jeune de 19 ans qui n'a jamais quitt\u00e9 son village!\" \r\rL'autre objet est un livret de retour \u00e0 la vie civile. M. Morisette: \"Ce livre m'a permis d'acheter ma maison, car j'ai appris dans ce livre \u00e0 l'article 102 que je pouvais le faire. Je l'ai achet\u00e9e avec l'aide du gouvernement du Canada en 1950 au prix de 5 500$, que j'ai r\u00e9par\u00e9 et agrandi. Aujourd'hui, la maison est \u00e9valu\u00e9e \u00e0 156,000$. Merci \u00e0 l'arm\u00e9e.\"","creator":"Memory Project Image #9777 - Veteran #4661","source":"Marcel Morissette","locale":"fr","credit":"Marcel Morissette"}]} "Memory Project Image #9777")
Marcel Morissette
Montage showing Mr. Morisette's identification plates. As he says, "I asked the officer what I should do with these medals made of fiber, not of copper. He said: "When you will be killed, we will send one plate to your loved ones . "Mr. Morissette added: "That's not answer to give to a 19 year old boy who has never left his village!"
The other object is a book on the return to civilian life. Mr. Morissette: "This book allowed me to buy my house, for I have learned in this book in Article 102 that I could do it. I bought it with assistance from the Government of Canada in 1950 at a price of $ 5 500, which I repaired and enlarged. Today, the house is valued at $ 156,000. Thanks to the army. "
Marcel Morissette
The transcription in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the transcript in French.