We do, and it's a group of veterans. We've really tried to make a concerted effort to tell their story. We always say that every veteran's story is unique in its own way, but if you can be even more unique, if that's possible, I think the aboriginal veteran experience is even more unique.
I was in Winnipeg last week and we had several aboriginal veterans and representatives from veteran associations and communities come out and share with us their artifacts and their memorabilia and their stories there.
I would say we have maybe a dozen aboriginal veterans who are part of our group. We have close relationships with the Métis veterans associations across Canada. In 2006, a few years ago, with the help of the Department of Canadian Heritage, we were able to digitize and scan and create profiles of a few dozen aboriginal veterans in an opportunity for us to talk about their story a bit. We know from the First World War that they were the largest percentage of any Canadian people who volunteered for the war. It was something like 10% of the aboriginal community who volunteered for the First World War. As with many First World War stories, those stories are obviously gone and weren't recorded and captured the same way as we need to do with our Second World War.
So yes, the effort is being made. We know there are a lot of stories out there and we'd love to be able to be in a position, hopefully in the next six to twelve months, to go to these aboriginal veteran associations and do special presentations to their network, to their membership. In addition to inviting them to come out to different events in different areas, we would go to that and make it easy for veterans.
We're finding we have to make it easier and easier for veterans to hear our message, to get involved with the program, so oftentimes it's our going to them. An association or a society is easier for us to do, and we're definitely looking at doing that.