The Okotoks Museum & Archives is holding an exhibit for Remembrance Day this year called Okotoks and WWII.

Museum specialist Kathy Coutts says the exhibit is all about remembering through pictures. 

"This year I am featuring the photography of Mac McLellan who grew up in Saskatchewan, but after the war came to Okotoks, he has been a long time resident of Okotoks," Coutts says.

McLellan served in the Second World War in the Royal Canadian Air Force on the ground crew, loading film into cameras on planes and developing them. He donated around 60 photographs to the museum back in 2003, but they came with one condition: he didn't want the pictures displayed until after his death.

Coutts says McLellan was concerned that even after all these years, he might get into trouble for keeping the photos.

"He was in charge of developing the pictures and then sending them off to his commander and he liked some of the pictures and some of the pilots paid him to get extra copies of a particular, successful mission."

Coutts says one of the neatest parts of this exhibit is the point of view you can see the war from.

"[McLellan] didn't serve at the front, he served in England and Northern Ireland, but he had a very significant role documenting that history and without that documentation we wouldn't appreciate what the men at the front did."  

Mac McLellan's photographs can be seen at the museum from now until the end of the month.

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