The Westmount High School Memorial Project was a decade-long endeavour to research and commemorate the lives of the school’s alumni who served and died during the Second World War.

For her exceptional commitment to sharing Canadian history from a new perspective, Chantal Clabrough, a teacher at Westmount High School, has been named a laureate of the Governor General’s History Awards for Excellence in Teaching— the country's most prestigious history honour.

I was selected, along with sixteen other students, to receive the Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, which included ten days of travel to France, Belgium and the Netherlands visiting important historical sites related to the First and Second World Wars.

Every day we walk by the WWI and WWII bronze memorial plaques in the school lobby. Every year we read their names at our Remembrance Day ceremony but up until recently we did not really know who they were as students here or what happened to them in the war. Eight years ago, our former principal Michael Cristofaro asked me if I could do something with the pictures of our Westmount High School men that are stored in the school’s archives and who sadly, died in WWII.