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page 1: | General history | The French régime | The British colonial period |
page 2: | Canada, the nation (World War I, World War II, Korean War, Peacekeeping) |
page 3: | Army (Units, Facilities and equipment, Biography) | Navy (Ships, Facilities and equipment, Biography) | Air force (Units, Facilities and equipment, Biography) |
page 4: | Uniforms, insignia, medals, badges and decorations | Registers of, and memorials to, the dead | Medical care |
The
Whole Kit and Kaboodle: Canadian Military Uniforms
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/analogue/uniforms/
Canadian
Forces - Women's Orders of Dress (1965-68)
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/heritage_traditions/engraph/womens_dress_policy_e.asp?cat=2
The Canadian
Great War homepage: Army Uniforms and Equipment
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/equip.htm
A
Uniform's History of the 48th highlanders of Canada
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/material_culture/anth/index.html
Uniforms
of the 19th Light Dragoons in Canada 1813-1816
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dis.general/19thld.htm
William Scully Ltd.,
Manufacturers of Uniform Equipment since 1877
http://www.williamscully.ca/gallery/
Canadian
Orders, Medals and Decorations
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp
The Canadian Great
War: Victoria Cross Winners
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/vc.htm
Canada's
Victoria Cross Recipients
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/VC_Winners/vc.htm
Great
Moments in Ontario: Canada's First Victoria Cross
http://www.ontario2000.on.ca/english/greatmoments/heroes/vc.html
For Valour:
Commemorating the Sixteen Canadian Servicemen awarded the Victoria Cross
for conspicuous bravery during the Second World War 1939-1945
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/citations
The
Canadian Military Heritage Project: World War II Victoria Cross Winners
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww2/heroes/vc.htm
The Canadian
Army Battle Honours
http://army.cipherlogic.on.ca/info/bhons.html
Canadian
Air Aces: Medals
http://www.accessweb.com/users/mconstab/medals.htm
For Honour and Valour:
Commonwealth Orders, Decorations and Medals awarded to RCAF Personnel during
the Second World War
http://www.airforce.ca/medals/index.htm
Canada,
military flags
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ca-milit.html
Books
of Remembrance
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/books
The Books of Remembrance contain the names of Canadians who fought in wars and
died either during or after them
Courage
Remembered: The War Graves Commission
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/wargravescommission.html
The Canadian Virtual
War Memorial
http://www.virtualmemorial.gc.ca/
National
Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials
http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/memorial/engraph/home_e.asp?cat=2
Memorials
to Canada's War Dead
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=memorials
The Maple Leaf Legacy
Project: Canadian War Graves Archive
http://www.mllp.demon.co.uk/
A History of
the Old Military Burial Ground, Victoria Square, Toronto
http://www.toronto.ca/culture/victoria-square/index.htm
Gander War
Cemetery
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/wargraves/
"We Will Remember":
War Monuments in Canada
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/monuments/
War Memorials,
Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
http://www.newscotland1398.net/remem/plaques.html
History
as Monument: The Sculptures on the Vimy Memorial
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/disp/dis011_e.html
Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/Memorials/tomb
Harry
Palmer Gallery: Vimy War Memorial Gallery
http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galwarvimy/galwarvimy.html
Harry
Palmer Gallery: Dieppe Raid Gallery
http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galwardieppe/galwardieppe.html
H.M.C.S. Sackville,
Canada's Naval Memorial
http://Fox.nstn.ca:80/~nstn1674/
The
Canadian Peacekeeping Monument
http://www.islandnet.com/~duke/monument.htm
The Story of
Remembrance
http://www.legion.ca/rem.htm
Fatal
Casualties in Canadian Contingents of the Boer War
http://www.islandnet.com/~duke/boercas.htm
Peacekeeping
Roll of Honour
http://www.cavunp.ab.ca/honroll.htm
Here Are
Written the Names of Canadians Who Lost Their Lives "In the Service of
Peace"
http://www.islandnet.com/~duke/roll.htm
Critical
Care On the Battlefield and Around the World: The Story of the Canadian Forces
Health Services
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/healthservices/criticalcare_e.html
Canadian
Nursing History Collection
http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/nursing/ncint01e.html
Canadian
Nursing Sisters
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/other/nursing
The
Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/nursing-sisters/index-e.html
Assistant
Surgeon William Faulkner of the 41st Regiment during the War of
1812
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dis.general/41surg.htm
John
McCrae
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/mccrae
Doctor and teacher, who served in both the South African
War and the First World War
Evelyn
Pepper
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/nursing/recollect/Pepper
Principal Matron of the No. 1 Canadian General Hospital
during the second battle of Arnheim
Nursing
Sister Helen L. Fowlds: A Canadian Nurse in World War I
http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm
Captain
Banting, War Hero
http://www.diabetes.ca/banting/warhero.htm
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