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Warren "Whitey" Bernard runs to his father as the British Columbia Regiment prepares to march off to war. October 1st 1940. Famous as the "wait for me daddy" picture.

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Warren "Whitey" Bernard runs to his father as the British Columbia Regiment prepares to march off to war. October 1st 1940. Famous as the "wait for me daddy" picture.

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His parents divorced after the war.
the photographer, Detloff unwittingly captured a lesser known story in this photograph, though no less characteristic of wartime Canada. On the left-hand side of the photograph, the second woman behind "Whitey's" mother (wearing a dark long coat, necklace, and staring directly toward the camera) is Agnes Confortin (née Power) who had accompanied her friend Phyllis Daem that day to see the young men of New Westminster off. Even with the limited resolution of the photo, Agnes' somber expression reflects her concern for her two brothers, Wilfred and Larry Power, who had already enlisted in the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. Larry returned to Canada in 1944 with severe posttraumatic stress disorder. Wilfred was killed in action in March 1945 near Arnhem as part of Canadian Forces preparation for the Liberation of Arnhem in April 1945