Canada at War : A Guide to Library and Archives Canada Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience

The Beginnings of Canadian Defence

By Executive Decree

• The Civil Service Rifles

By Executive Decree

• The Defences of Canada

Northwest Rebellion (1885)

Exhibitions

By Executive Decree

• The North West Rebellion

The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

• Northwest Rebellion

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

From Colony to Country: The Northwest Campaign

South African War (1899-1902)

Exhibitions

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• Speech before the House of Commons, March 13, 1900.

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

Soldiers of the South African War (1899-1902)

Images Canada

Photographs (ArchiviaNet)

From Colony to Country: South African War

First World War (1914-1919)

Exhibitions

Canada and the First World War

Lest We Forget

Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War

War Diaries of the First World War

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• The Early Days of Hockey

• Memorial Cup

• Hobey Baker

• "One-Eyed" Frank McGee's Medical History

• Proceedings of a medical board about the injury sustained by Frank McGee

• Frank McGee's Obituary

• Champion hockey team of Canadians interned in Switzerland, 1917

Canadian Poetry Archive

• McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" - original version written in McCrae's hand

• McCrae, John - "The Anxious Dead"

• Crémazie, Octave - "Le Vieux Soldat canadien"

• Wilkins, Harriett Annie - "Death of Captain Vicars"

• Wilkins, Harriett Annie - "The Soldier of Auvergne"

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• Speech before the Canadian Club of Halifax, December 18, 1914.

• Speech before the Canadian Club at Winnipeg, December 29, 1914.

• Appeal for national service, Ottawa, October 23, 1916.

• Speech before the House of Commons, May 18, 1917.

• Speech at the Directors' Luncheon, Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa, September 9, 1918

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918) (ArchiviaNet)

War Diaries of the First World War (ArchiviaNet)

From Colony to Country: First World War

Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - First World War Era

Sheet Music From Canada's Past: Music on the Home Front (First World War)

Second World War (1939-1945)

Exhibitions

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Obituary of Dudley "Red" Garrett

• Prisoners' hockey team, internment camp 132, Medicine Hat, Alberta, February 25, 1946

Canadian War Artists

Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945

Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• Address on the national security plebiscite, April 7, 1942

• Canada and the war: manpower and a total war effort: national selective service broadcast, August 19, 1942

• Canada and the war: temperance and a total war effort: national selective service broadcast, December 16, 1942

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

War Records Manufacturing Series (WRM) (ArchiviaNet)

Records of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Renfrew, Ontario

Korean War (1950-1953)

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Hockey championship match between teams of 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and 2nd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment, "Imjin Gardens", near the front lines, Korea, March 11, 1952

General

Exhibitions

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Canada's RCAF Team Wins Olympic Hockey, 1948

• Canada, Olympic hockey champion

Read Up on It 2005

• A Wish for Peace

Canada By Train

• Wartime

Images Canada

• Canada at War

The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

• Soldier Trains

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• A Handful of Warriors

Research (Digital Collections)

Dictionary of Canadian Biography