Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2018-04-04
Invested on: 2018-11-05
Beverley Tosh, M.S.M.
Calgary, Alberta
Contemporary artist Beverley Tosh created a project entitled War Brides: One-Way Passage, a collection of portraits depicting young women who emigrated from their home countries to follow the foreign servicemen they married during the Second World War. Exhibited across Canada and abroad, her compelling artworks, together with accompanying story panels created by interviewing each woman personally, form an invaluable historical archive of a 20th-century cultural phenomenon.