KEEPING TRACK OF CANADA'S WAR GRAVES

New to the job, he was startled to learn that there are thousands of war graves outside of the old European battlefields where people might expect to find them.

"The fact that there are over 20,000 of them from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission perspective is a surprise to me, but I think for most Canadians it is a surprise," Loveridge said.

The vast majority of Canada's war graves — 19,000 — can be found here in Canada. They're legacies of the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean conflict.