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- Canadian War Brides - 60 Years
- The term "War Bride" refers to the thousands of young women who met and married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War.
- Public Information Sheets
- Canadians contributed in many ways to our country's great efforts in the Second World War.
- A Flyer's Remembrance
- Return to Normandy 60th Anniversary of D-Day June 2004 by Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Berryman
- Canada and the Second World War
- The Second World War lasted six terrible years and left a legacy of death and destruction. It was truly a world war encircling the globe from the Atlantic to the Pacific and touching the far reaches of the Arctic.
- Canadians in Asia 1941-1945
- It was in the defence of Hong Kong in 1941 that Canadian soldiers were first committed to battle during the Second World War.
- Diaries, Letters, and Stories
- Read actual excerpts from wartime diaries and letters, and experience first-hand, the day-to-day struggles of young Canadians.
- Dieppe
- The Allied situation in the spring of 1942 was grim. The Germans had penetrated deep into Russia, the British Eighth Army in North Africa had been
forced back into Egypt, and in Western Europe the Allied forces faced the Germans across the English Channel.
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- What a miserable, rotten hopeless life . . . an Atlantic so rough it seems impossible that we can continue to take this unending pounding and still remain in one piece .
- For Valour
- This book and the accompanying lithograph were produced
to honour the sixteen Canadian servicemen who were awarded the
Victoria Cross during the Second World War.
- The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
- In 1939, Prime Minister Mackenzie King had a dream which he believed was a sign of "the power of the airplane in determining ultimate victory" for the war effort.
- The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
- The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which saw German U-boats penetrate the Cabot Strait and the Strait of Belle Isle to sink 23 ships between 1942 and 1944, marked the only time since the War of 1812 that enemy warships inflicted death within Canada's territorial waters.
- Canada - Belgium 1944 - 1994
- Belgium takes up many chapters of the story of Canadians at war. More than 800 Canadian soldiers are buried in Belgium. They died in the autumn of 1944 for the liberation of Flanders.
- Canada - Italy 1943-1945
- Canadian troops played a vital role in the 20-month Mediterranean campaign which led to the liberation of Italy
during the Second World War.
- Canada - Netherlands
- The foundations of a special relationship between our countries were established during the dreary years of the Second World War.
- Normandy 1944
- By the time of the Normandy invasion, Canada had been at war for almost five years.
- The Scheldt
- Adegem Canadian War Cemetery contains the graves of 848 Canadians, most of whom lost their lives during the
bitter struggle to clear the south bank of the Scheldt River.
- Uncommon Courage
- These are the stories of gallant people whose names deserve to be engraved forever on Canada's roll of honour. Some of them did not survive - were captured, tortured by the Gestapo and then executed. These are stories, simply told, of real heroes, hitherto unsung but no less inspiring despite the
passage of time.
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