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
  
  
• The Defences of Canada
  
  

From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History

Northwest Rebellion (1885)

Exhibitions

By Executive Decree

• The North West Rebellion

Canada, By Train

• Northwest Rebellion

The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

• Northwest Rebellion

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

From Colony to Country

• Rebellions of 1837 and 1838

South African War (1899-1902)

Exhibitions

Cool Canada

• Interesting People - Georgina Pope

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

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

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

From Colony to Country

• South African War

Photographs (ArchiviaNet)

Soldiers of the South African War (1899-1902)

First World War (1914-1919)

Exhibitions

Aboriginal Documentary Heritage

• Aboriginal Soldiers

Canada and 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

Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters

Canada and the First World War

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"

Cool Canada

• Inventions - Gas Mask

Famous Canadian Physicians

• Sir Frederick Banting
  
  
• Dr. Norman Bethune
  
  
• Sir William Osler
  
  
• Dr. Wilder Penfield

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

Lest We Forget

Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War

Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918

Shipwreck Investigations at Library and Archives Canada

• Investigating the Letitia

SOS! Canadian Disasters

• Halifax Explosion - December 6, 1917

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

From Colony to Country:

• First World War

Sheet Music From Canada's Past:

• Music on the Home Front (First World War)

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

Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings

• First World War Era

War Diaries of the First World War (ArchiviaNet)

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

Faces of War

Famous Canadian Physicians

• Dr. Gustave Gingras

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

Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film

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

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

From Colony to Country

• Second World War

Photographs - National Film Board of Canada: War Records Manufacturing (WRM) Series (ArchiviaNet)

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 22e Regiment, "Imjin Gardens", near the front lines, Korea, March 11, 1952

General

Exhibitions

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Canada's RCAF Team Wins Olympic Hockey Crown

• Le Canada, Champion du hockey olympique

Canada By Train

• Wartime

Cool Canada

• Interesting People - Norman Bethune
  
  
• Interesting People - Sarah Emma Edmonds (Edmondson)

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

• A Handful of Warriors

Framing Canada

• War and Conflict

Images Canada

• Canada at War

The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

• Soldier Trains

Read Up on It 2005

• A Wish for Peace

The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf

• Law and Order Gallery

Research (Digital Collections)

Canadian Dictionary of Biography

From Colony to Country

• The Northwest Campaign