We downloaded over 356 maps from General Omar Bradley’s 12th Army Group and meticulously georeferenced each of them. To collect the position of army units of all the countries involved in the Second World War, our team used a historic series of maps provided by the Library of Congress in the US. Where did the data for this project come from?ĭigitizing this information was no small feat. Our hope is that Project ’44 will help preserve historical accounts and make them more accessible to a wider audience.
We felt like there had to be a better way to visualize this important time in history and so we started exploring web mapping options such as Mapbox. Throughout our research, we were able to find ample written accounts of the era but most maps were of poor quality. We stumbled upon the idea for this project while researching World War II maps at the Library and Archives of Canada. I connected with the creators, Drew Hannen and Nathan Kehler, to learn more. Project ’44 is built by the Canadian Research Mapping Association, a non-profit organization specializing in digital preservation, collection management, and mapping history. Through this interactive lens, users can follow the journey of individual units as they trek across war-torn Europe, read excerpts from war diaries, and explore the wider impact of Canada’s WWII history through one of the embedded story mapping experiences.
Project ’44 maps the Canadian units that fought in Europe from DDay, June 1944, to the end of May 1945. North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment - July 7th, 1944
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