Wait For Me Daddy depicts a young boy in New Westminster, B.C., reaching out to his father as he marches off to serve in the Second World War. (Claude P. Dettloff/National Archives of Canada)
The Metro Vancouver city announced Wednesday it has selected artists Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales to create a bronze memorial based on the famous photo, "Wait for me, Daddy," taken by The Province newspaper photographer Claude Dettloff.
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It’s credited as the most famous Canadian photo of the Second World War, a little boy running from his mother for the outstretched hand of his soldier father, but for Warren “Whitey” Bernard, his image as a five-year-old is more powerful for what it doesn’t show.
That little white-haired boy – now a 79-year-old retiree from Tofino, B.C. – will unveil a monument Saturday in New Westminster, B.C., based on the photo that symbolized the emotional turmoil of Canada’s men heading off to war.
The photo, called Wait for Me Daddy, moved from the newspaper to Life magazine, then to every B.C. school during the war and is now proudly displayed in the Canadian War Museum.
