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CBC Archives:
Conflict and War
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDT-1-71/conflict_war/
The
Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacay of Canada at War
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/
The
Memory Project Digital Archive
http://www.thememoryproject.com/digital-archive/index.cfm
The
Fenian Invasions of Canada
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~col/fenian/fen.html
Red River
Expeditionary Force 1870-1877
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/rrefint.htm
The Northwest
Resistance
http://library.usask.ca/northwest/
The
First Shot Rang Out
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl;=0≶=English&ex;=00000134
Riel, Dumont
and the 1885 Rebellion
http://www.tcel.com/~brownb/index.htm
Louis
Riel and the North-West Rebellion
http://www.pch.gc.ca/csp-pec/english/about/multimedia/riel/index.html
Gabriel
Dumont
http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/gd-hist/index-e.html
"For
Queen and Country": Canadians and the South African War, 1899-1902
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis008_e.html
South
African War 100th Anniversary
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=feature/100africa
With
the Royal Canadians
http://www.forces.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/South_Africa.PDF
Canadian
Participation in the Boer War
http://regimentalrogue.tripod.com/BOER%20WAR%20INFORMATION.htm
The
Kootenay Involvement in the Boer War
http://www.fortsteele.bc.ca/exhibits/boar/main/index.asp
The Canadian
Letters and Images Project: an online project to preserve Canada's wartime
experience through letters and images
http://www.mala.bc.ca/history/letters/
The
Conscription Crises
http://www.pc.gc.ca/edu/TRC/htm/conscription_e.asp
We
Remember: The Role Canada Played in the Wars
http://www1.sympatico.ca/Features/Remember/role.html
Canada's
Contribution in World War I and World War II
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Teacher/world_war.html
Johnny Canuck's
Wartime History of Canada
http://www.around.ntl.sympatico.ca/~toby/
A Day
of Remembrance
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/remember
The Story of
Remembrance
http://www.legion.ca/english/rem.htm
Courage
Remembered: the world wars through Canadian eyes
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/splash.html
Stamps
and Remembrance
http://www.interlog.com/~rpsc/Library/rememberance/remember.htm
Season
of Remembrance
http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca/know_tool/seasonofremembrance/popup.html
Peace
and War
http://www.thememoryproject.com/peace_index.cfm
They Served for
Freedom: The War Veterans Club of the Royal Canadian Legion branch #17,
Wellington, Prince Edward Island
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/veterans/
Canadian Heroes
http://www.CdnHeroes.ca
Native
Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields: The Wartime Contribution of Canada's First
Peoples
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native
Remembering Our
Heroes: Saskatchewan First Nation Veterans
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heroes/
Saskatchewan
in Two World Wars
http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/
Valour
at Sea: Canada's Merchant Navy
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/other/sea
POW - Behind Canadian
Barbed Wire
http://www2.memlane.com/djcarter/
Canada's
War Art
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis010_e.html
Canvas
of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum, 1914-1918, 1939-1945
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/canvas/cwint01e.html
Canadian
War Artists
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0510_e.html
Canadian War
Poster Collection
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/
Canadian War
Poster Art
http://www.airforce.dnd.ca/eng/poster.htm
Canadians
in Vietnam
http://home.fireplug.net/%7Ershand/reflections/vietnam/canada.html
Thousands of
Canadians, including a Medal of Honor winner, served with the U.S.
military in Vietnam
http://www.vwam.com/vets/canadians.html
Seeking
Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-348/conflict_war/draft_dodgers/
The
1991 Gulf War
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-593/conflict_war/gulf_war/
World War I
A
Chronology of Canadian Military History: Canada and the First World
War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1914first_ww_e.html
A Brief
Chronology of Major Events in the Great War
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Chronology.html
The Canadian
Great War homepage: Timeline for Canada
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/time.htm
Veterans
Affairs Canada: The First World War
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/firstwar
Canada and the
First World War
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0518_e.html
Courage
Remembered: World War I -- A Brief History
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/worldwariabriefhistory.html
The Canadian
Great War Homepage: Canada's Role in World War I, 1914-1918
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/index.html
Canada's
Military Heritage: The First World War
http://www.waramps.ca/military/wwi/home.html
An Archival
Look at World War I
http://archives.queensu.ca/wwi/index.html
Film records of the
Canadian participation in World War One
http://www.nfb.ca/launchers/?id=91
Soldiers of
the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020106_e.html
Canadian
Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/CEF_e.PDF
CEF:
Canadian Troop Strength in Siberia, 1918-1919
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/cef.html
For King and Empire:
Canada's Soldiers in the Great War
http://www.kingandempire.com/
Canada in
the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridge
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/vimy
The Great War:
Vimy Ridge
http://www.censol.ca/research/greatwar/index.html
Combatting
the Elements: Mud and Trench Warfare in World War I
http://victoria.tc.ca/history/forum/sandstrom.dubois
On the
Western Front: Names from First World War battles
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/schoolnet/westernfrt.html
Newfoundland
and the Great War
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/default.html
The
Newfoundland Regiment at the Somme
http://callisto.si.usherb.ca/~eslcafe/holidays/nov-11/bbattle.htm
Canadian
Veterans Interviews
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/interviews
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers our Canadian War Heroes
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/gray/index.html
Forgotten
Faces, Forgotten Names: In Memory of Cranbrook's Contribution to WWI
http://www.fortsteele.bc.ca/exhibits/wwi/main/index.asp
Jack
Turner's War
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/
War
Artists from the First World War
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/war_artists/index.html
No
Man's Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no4/hamilton.html
The Battlefield Art of
Mary Riter Hamilton
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfmrh.htm
Philately and the
Third Battle of the Ypres Salient in 1917
http://www.sfu.ca/~dgronbec/23-2c.htm
Les
Purs Canayens: Canadian Posters of the First World War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/purscan/purineng.html
The
Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War
http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/vexhibit/warpost/english/home.htm
Canadian
Posters from the First World War
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/posters/index.html
La
conscription de 1917-1918 et les «deux solitudes»
http://planete.qc.ca/histoire/ouellet/ouellet4.htm
Entente
cordiale ? La section montréalaise du Fonds patriotique canadien,
1914-1923 : le bénévolat de guerre à
Montréal
http://www.erudit.org/erudit/haf/v53n02/morton/morton.pdf
Un
vétéran se rappelle
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/gould.html
War Diaries
of the First World War
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020152_e.html
A
Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen
http://www.forces.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/pebbles.pdf
Lettres du
front
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/athanase.html
First
World War Love Story
http://archeion-aao.fis.utoronto.ca/ArcheionVirtualExhibit/love.html
The
Homefront: A Hamilton, Ontario Perspective on World War I
http://www.hpl.hamilton.on.ca/history/war/default.htm
A
Mother's War
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl;=0≶=English&ex;=51
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers Our Canadian War Heroes
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/gray/index.html
Le
Québec sous le règne d'Anastasie : l'expérience
censoriale durant la Première Guerre mondiale
http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/2004/v57/n3/009592ar.html
Internment
of Ukrainians in Canada, 1914-1920
http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/
The
Halifax Explosion
http://www.halifaxinfo.com/B/B4.html
also
at: http://www.region.halifax.ns.ca/Community/explode.html
A
Chronology of Canadian Military History: Canada and the Second World
War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/chrono/1931crisis_e.html
The
Canadian Military Heritage Project: World War II Historical Timeline
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww2/ww2view.htm
Canada
and the Second World War
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/secondwar
Canada's
Military Heritage: The Second World War
http://www.waramps.ca/military/wwii/home.html
Juno Beach Centre: Canada in
WWII
http://www.junobeach.org/
Democracy
at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html
The
Second World War as a National Experience
http://www.forces.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/Natl_exp.pdf
Canada Remembers:
Canada 1939-1945, Projects for Teachers and Students
http://bytor.com/canrem/canrem.htm
Courage
Remembered: World War II -- A Brief History
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/worldwariiabriefhistory.html
Remembrances:
Canada and the Second World War
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/
The
Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis007_e.html
The
Battle of the Atlantic
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/secondwar/atlantic
The Battle
of the Atlantic: Royal Canadian Navy
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/atlantic/canadian.htm
Canadian
Merchant Ship Losses of the Second World War, 1939-1945
http://www.familyheritage.ca/Articles/merchant1.html
The
Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/secondwar/battlegulf
Dieppe
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/dieppe
Through a Lens:
Dieppe in Photography and Film
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0534_e.html
Normandy
1944 -- Canada Remembers
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Normandy
Normandy
1944, Juno Beach
http://normandy.eb.com/normandy/week2/Juno_Beach.html
D-day
http://www.onf.ca/dday/
Canada -
Belgium, 1944-1994
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Belgium
Canada
- Netherlands, 1945-2000
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/netherlands
The
Battle of the Scheldt, 1944-1994
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/scheldt
Operation
Manna
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/manna.html
Taconis
Collection
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/taconis/
Photographs document the "Hunger Winter" of 1944-45 in
Amsterdam, the Dam Square shooting of May 7, 1945, and the liberation of
Amsterdam on May 8th, 1945
Canada -
Italy, 1943-1945
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Italy
Ortona -
The Canadian Battle - December 1943
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl;=0≶=English&ex;=00000186
Canadians
in Asia, 1941-1945
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/asia
In Desperate Battle:
Normandy, 1944. The Valour and the Horror
http://www.valourandhorror.com/
Fortress
Europe: German Coastal Defences and the Canadian Role in Liberating the
Channel Ports
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis003_e.html
Testaments of
Honour
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/Testaments/
WWII
Diary of Sgt. J.W. Taylor
http://www1.sympatico.ca/Features/Remember/diary.html
Canadian tunnellers
in Gibraltar in WW II
http://www.sfu.ca/~dgronbec/21-1b.htm
"Code-name
Canada": A Canadian Maquisard
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cerrial/index6.html#English version.
Uncommon
Courage: Canadian Secret Agents in the Second World War
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/courage
Sir William
Stephenson: A brief biography
http://www.timberholme.com/intrepid.html
Royal Canadian Air
Force: The War Years, 1939-1945
http://www.rcaf.com/1939_1945_waryears/
Bomber
Command
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/command.html
The British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/bcatp.html
Canadian War
Industry During the Second World War
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0521_e.html
Women
in the War
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/ISSUE/Women/index.htm
My
Grandmother's Wartime Diary
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/diary/grandmother&CFNoCache;=TRUE
The Second
World War: They serve that men may fly
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/high_flyers/wwii.htm
Women Come
to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
My
Grandmother's Wartime Diary
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/secondwar/diary/grandmother
Pieces
of Paper: Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America During World
War II
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/balloons/
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Front
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/d_day/index.html
Engendering
Consent: WW II Posters and the Home Front
http://web.arts.ubc.ca/history/ww2prop/prop.htm
Posters from
the Canadian Home Front
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/PHOTO/posterHome.html
La
censure en temps de guerre : Radio-Canada et le plébiscite de
1942
http://www.erudit.org/erudit/haf/v52n02/canuel/canuel.htm
A
Garrison Country: Newfoundland and Labrador during the Second World War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis004_e.html
Canadian War Brides of World War
Two
http://canadianwarbrides.com/
We
Became Canadians
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/heritage/pier21/rains/index.html
Open
Your Heart: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada
http://www.ednet.ns.ca/educ/heritage/pier21/stories/martzbk1.html
Open
Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/orphans/english/
The Canadian
War Children of World War Two Forgotten History
http://www.project-roots.com/forgotten.html
Victory
Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0507_e.html
French Canadians
in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1944
http://www.sfu.ca/~dann/nn4-1_8a.htm
The Montreal and Verdun Zoot-Suit disturbances of June 1944: language conflict, a problem of civil-military relations or youthful over-exuberance? http://www.civilization.ca/academ/articles/durf1_1e.html
Alternative Service in the
Second World War: Conscientious Objectors in Canada 1939-1945
http://www.alternativeservice.ca/
Trop loin de
Berlin
http://www.cam.org/~ybern/septentrionE.html
Prisoners of war interned in Canada, 1939-1947
Japanese
Canadian Internment: Information at the University of Washington Libraries
and Beyond
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Canada/internment/intro.html
Relocation
to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-568/conflict_war/internment/
Canadian
Fire Fighters in England During WWII
http://www.kithandkin.net/Postem/firefighters.html
Valour
Remembered: Canadians in Korea
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/KoreaWar/valour
Canadians
in Korea, 1950-1953
http://www.korean-war.com/canada.html
Canada's
Army in Korea: The United Nations Operations, 1950-53, and Their
Aftermath
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/Korea1956_e.pdf
CBC
Archives: Korean War
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=71&IDDos;=112&IDLan;=1&IDMenu;=71
Canada
and Peacekeeping
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/menu-e.asp
Peacekeeping
1815 to Today
http://www.forces.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/Official_Histories/Coll_21st_Peacekeeping.pdf
Peacekeepers
and Peacemakers: Canada's Diplomatic Contribution
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/
Canada
and NATO
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis009_e.html
Peacekeeping
Roll of Honour
http://www.cdnpeacekeeping.ns.ca/honour.htm
Here Are
Written the Names of Canadians Who Lost Their Lives "In the Service of
Peace"
http://www.islandnet.com/~duke/roll.htm
Canada's UNTEA / UNSF
operation in Dutch New Guinea (1962-1963)
http://www.sfu.ca/~dgronbec/22-3c.htm
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