Canada declared war on Germany more than two years before the United States did in World War II. The British Columbia Regiment was shipped out to a secret destination on on October 1, 1940.
Coming down Eighth Street in New Westminster, Canadian photographer Claude P. Dettloff of The Province newspaper positioned himself to photograph the whole column marching down the hill. As he was getting ready to take the picture, he saw a young boy run out onto the road; Wait for Me, Daddy captures the image of the boy, five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard, running out of his mother's grasp to his father. The picture Dettloff captured was picked up all over the world, getting exposure in Life; it hung in every school in British Columbia during the war.[1]
Jack Bernard made it home from the war five years later. Dettloff captured the reunion of Bernard and his much-grown son. Warren Bernard tells his story here. Today, a bronze statue depicting the iconic photograph stands at Hyack Square in New Westminster, British Columbia. -via reddit