The University of Winnipeg Archives invites you to attend an opening reception for the launch of our latest exhibition titled To Go Forward with a Man Like Lovatt: Remembering a Student's Sacrifice.  The exhibit is centred on Private Charles Wesley Lovatt, a student at Wesley College who interrupted his studies to enlist in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served in the First World War as a stretcher-bearer with the 12th Canadian Field Ambulance.  Lovatt's story of service and sacrifice is told through a diary he started the day he enlisted and ceased entries two days before he died in the Battle of Passchendaele on October 29, 1917.  The diary and other records documenting his life were lovingly retained by family members over the years and have recently been donated to the University of Winnipeg Archives as the Lovatt Family fonds<https://main.lib.umanitoba.ca/lovatt-family-fonds> in an act of enduring remembrance.

The diary and other records illustrating the life of Private Lovatt, as well as those documenting the wartime experience at Wesley College (one of the founding colleges of the University of Winnipeg), will be on display in the Archives reading room from November 7 to December 20, 2024.  The opening reception will be held November 7 at 12:30 PM also in the Archives reading room where a short film about Private Lovatt, produced by his family, will be shown.  Information about the location of the Archives and where to park can be found on our website.<https://archives.uwinnipeg.ca/using-the-archives/index.html>  We hope to see you there.