 Contributors to the first book included Evelyn Lambart, who would go on to become an animator at the National Film Board of Canada.In 1948, it was announced that a second book would be created to memorialize the 44,893 Canadians who had died in the Second World War.This time Beddoe was given a chief assistant, five assistant artists, two writers, an accounting officer and a proof-reader to help with the book, scheduled to be completed in 1952.