Over the last week, selected homes across Canada received poignant reminders of military members who fought and died in the final months of the Second World War.

Each address was mailed a postcard with the name, story and fate of an individual soldier, sailor or airman who had lived there prior to enlisting in Canada's war effort.

As part of its "He Lived Where You Live" program, the Juno Beach Centre — Canada's war memorial museum in Normandy, France — issued postcards to 1,945 addresses to comm…