When it comes to what the directorate does, its main historical responsibility is to write the official histories of Canadian deployments. To that extent we will conduct interviews to support the writing of the official histories, which means in the long run those stories will be told.
I know that within Veterans Affairs the virtual memorial, which is self-generating because people are being asked to contribute material to it, is also important. This is not so much commemoration, but during the process of our casualty identification program at National Defence—when we are able to identify a First World War or Second World War individual who had been missing until we were able to identify the remains—we've found that pushing that story out garners a lot of attention. From what I've heard, it leads local schools or other organizations to ask their students to look for soldiers and to try to tell their stories.
There is no central repository of interviewers, if you will, where there's a central collection of interviews. I think the combination of what the War Museum does, what Veterans Affairs is doing, what we are doing at the directorate of history and heritage, and what some universities like UNB are doing is gradually making a catalogue, if you will.