World War 1

World War 1

Selected Online resources:

Historica Canada: Canada at War http://canada1914-1945.ca/resources/

This page includes links to a number of very good resources but often on this site the title you click on is not where the link brings you. Below are some of their suggested resources with the proper link:

• The Memory Project: http://www.thememoryproject.com/
• Veteran's Affairs Canada: First World War http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war
• The Vimy Foundation https://www.vimyfoundation.ca/
• Library and Archives Canada: Oral Histories of the First World War https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1500-e.html
• Aboriginal People in the Canadian Military: The World Wars http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/pub/boo-bro/abo-aut/chapter-chapitre-05-eng.asp

The Canadian War Museum http://www.warmuseum.ca/home/

• The War Museum has a section of its website devoted to World War 1 http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/
• They have also compiled a list of resources to help students with their research: http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/ressources/recommended-links/canadian-links/

Library and Archives Canada

• Search Service Files from World War 1 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/search.aspx
• How to read a record of service http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/read-service-record-casualty-form.aspx
• Links devoted to World War 1 resources http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/pages/introduction.aspx

Great War Project http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/

The Canadian Military Gateway http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/html/wn-qdn/index-eng.asp?t=1

• Canada in the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridge http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/road-to-vimy-ridge
• The Battle of Vimy Ridge April 9-12 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/firstworldwar/index-e.html
• Women in War http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/women-and-war
• Black Canadians in Uniform http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/black-canadians-in-uniform/history#first

The National Film Board https://www.nfb.ca/

• Images of a Forgotten War http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/
• And We Knew How to Dance: Women in World War I https://www.nfb.ca/film/and_we_knew_how_to_dance