Canadian Research & Mapping Association
Your grandfather's war didn't end somewhere.
We mapped exactly where.
Project '44 is the first interactive map linking every unit, every day, and every battle of the Second World War — built from primary sources so families and communities can finally find the answers they've been carrying for 80 years.
Free. No signup required to explore.
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Answers to the questions your family never could find
Our interactive web map connects war diaries, unit movements, and battle records so you can trace the exact journey — day by day, village by village.
Who Liberated Your Village
Zwolle was liberated by a single man — Léo Major, April 14, 1945. Every village has a story like this. We've mapped them.
For communities across Europe — find your regiment, your day, your story.
Where They Served
On June 6, 1944, the North Shore Regiment landed at Nan Red sector, Juno Beach at 08:12. We know because the war diary says so — and now you can see it on a map.
Search 1,000+ formations by unit, date, or location.
What Happened That Day
From the war diary of the Régiment de la Chaudière, October 13, 1944: 'Heavy mortar fire on Bravo Company positions near Woensdrecht.' One entry of 150,000 pages — all searchable, all linked to the map.
War diaries, after-action reports, historical context.
Why This Matters
Two families. One regiment. Eighty years of silence between them.
A grandson in Calgary wonders what his grandfather saw at the Scheldt. A family in Groningen still celebrates the Canadians who came every April — but no longer remembers which regiment.
Project '44 exists so they can find each other.
See It In Action
The Queen's Own Rifles at Deventer
April 10, 1945. One Canadian regiment, one Dutch city. The story, told through the tools that make Project '44 different.
The War Diary Cover
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. April 1945. A pale cover typed on a field typewriter eighty years ago — the outside of the book that tells you where they were and what they did, every day, for a month.
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The Liberation of Deventer
April 10, 1945. The Queen's Own Rifles enter Deventer. A photograph, geotagged to the street where it was taken, linked to the unit that was there — no longer a loose image in an archive, but a fixed point in a real place on a real day.
Where They Were, Hour by Hour
By the morning of April 11, Deventer was free. Follow the QOR's advance through the city block by block, plotted from the war diary onto a modern map — every position, every movement, drawn from primary sources.
Go Deeper
Explore the Full Archive
Thousands of records, photographs, and primary sources — all searchable, all free.
The last veterans are in their late 90s. The records are deteriorating. The clock is running.
Every Patreon membership funds the digitization of another war diary, another month of research, another community's story — preserved before it's too late.
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