World · North America · 3 hrs ago
Len Wagg’s New Book Focuses on Canada’s War Dead and Those Who Honour Them
Nova Scotia photographer Len Wagg has spent five years documenting war graves and memorials across Canada and Europe.
His new book, *At Home and Beyond: Honouring Canada’s War Dead*, includes well-known sites such as Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach.
The book focuses on people as well as monuments, including nurses, memorial organizers and individual soldiers.
More than 110,000 Canadians are buried overseas at over 5,800 sites, while another 27,000 have no known graves.
A defence department team uses tools including DNA analysis to identify Canadians in unmarked graves still being found in Europe.
Those identified receive full military funerals in France.
Wagg’s book shows how people continue to honour Canada’s war dead and restore names to those who were lost.
Nova Scotia author and photographer Len Wagg’s new book, At Home and Beyond: Honouring Canada’s War Dead, documents war graves, monuments and the people who honour Canada’s war dead.
Wagg spent five years travelling across Canada and Europe to photograph sites for the book.
The book features well-known places including Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach, as well as stories about nurses, memorial organizers and individual soldiers.
More than 110,000 Canadians are buried overseas at more than 5,800 sites, while another 27,000 have no known graves.
The book also profiles a Department of National Defence team that works to identify Canadians buried in unmarked graves in Europe.
- Who
- Len Wagg, a Nova Scotia author and photographer, created the book.
- What
- At Home and Beyond: Honouring Canada’s War Dead documents war graves, monuments and the people who honour the dead.
- When
- Published November 8, 2026.
- Where
- The book covers sites across Canada and Europe.
- Why
- Wagg said he wanted to focus on people who care for monuments and honour Canada’s war dead, not only on the monuments themselves.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Wagg visited the Agira Canadian War Cemetery while on assignment in Italy and wrote a story about it for the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
Wagg travelled across Canada and Europe photographing war graves, monuments and other sites for the book.
Wagg photographed Sarah Lockyer at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa.
The Globe and Mail published its article about Wagg’s new book.
- Book
- At Home and Beyond: Honouring Canada’s War Dead
- Author
- Len Wagg
- Overseas burials
- More than 110,000 Canadians at more than 5,800 sites
- No known graves
- Another 27,000 Canadians
- Last Commonwealth soldier killed in the First World War
- Pte. George Lawrence Price, at 10:58 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918
What people are saying
I got calls from Nova Scotia and from the United States
People had said they knew their father had died overseas but they didn’t know where it was. And this picture of the headstone was the first time that they had seen where it was.
They gave their lives for the country. It’s the least we can do to give them back their names.