Wait for me Daddy

Young Warren Bernard escaped his mother's grasp and ran toward his father Jack as he was preparing to board a troop ship in New Westminster in 1940. The iconic photgraph was taken by Claude Detloff for the Vancouver Province, and captured the attention of the editors of Time, Life and others. It became one of the most famous Canadian photographs of the 20th Century, and was used to help sell War Bonds. Today there is a statue at the foot of Eighth Street commemorating the famous photograph.  (1940 photograph by Claude Detloff).