Veterans with a vision
Subtitle: Canada's war blinded in peace and war
By: Serge Marc Durflinger
Contributors: Canadian War Museum; Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded
Series: Studies in Canadian military history
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780774818551; 9780774818568
Subjects: Blind; Canadian National Institute for the Blind; Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded; Services for; Disabled veterans; History
Description: "We know something about our war dead but almost nothing about our war wounded. Veterans with a Vision provides a vibrant, poignant, and very human history of Canada's war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded. Serge Durflinger details the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping and describes their public advocacy for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs. This book captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans' community and highlights the accomplishments of the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens."--Pub. desc.
Notes: "Published in association with the Canadian War Museum and the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-411) and index.
Table of contents: title: Canada's First War blinded, 1899-1918; title: The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-29; title: Rehabilitating the blinded casualties of the Second World War, 1939-50; title: Older and wiser : Canada's war blinded in the aftermath of war, 1945-70; title: Twilight, 1971-2002.