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Military and naval history – Canada
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- Canada, the nation
CBC Archives:
Conflict and Warhttp://archives.cbc.ca/IDT-1-71/conflict_war/
The
Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at Warhttp://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/
http://www.thememoryproject.com/
The
Fenian Invasions of Canadahttp://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Military/fenian_invasions.htm
Red River
Expeditionary Force 1870-1877http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/rrefint.htm
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=a1ARTA0005802
First Shot Rang Outhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000134
Riel, Dumont
and the 1885 Rebellionhttp://www.alittlehistory.com/Mt-Intro.htm
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002444
“For
Queen and Country”: Canadians and the South African War, 1899-1902http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/explore/military-history/dispatches/
for-queen-and-country-canadians-and-the-south-african-war-1899-1902
Soldiers
of the South African War (1899 – 1902)http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/south-african-war/index-e.html
African War 100th Anniversaryhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=feature/100africa
Participation in the Boer Warhttp://regimentalrogue.tripod.com/BOER%20WAR%20INFORMATION.htm
The
Kootenay Involvement in the Boer Warhttp://www.fortsteele.ca/exhibits/boar/main/index.asp
http://www.canadianletters.ca/aboutus.php
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/on/laurier/edu/edu.aspx
Canada’s
Contribution in World War I and World War IIhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Teacher/world_war.html
of Remembrancehttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/remember
http://www.CdnHeroes.ca
Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields: The Wartime Contribution of Canada’s First
Peopleshttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native
Saskatchewan
in Two World Warshttp://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/
at Sea: Canada’s Merchant Navyhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/sea
POW – Behind Canadian
Barbed Wirehttp://www2.memlane.com/djcarter/
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artwar/introduction_e.shtml
Canvas
of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum, 1914-1918, 1939-1945http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/exhibitions/canvas/cwint01e.shtml
Canadian War
Poster Collectionhttp://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/propaganda/index_e.shtml
in Vietnamhttp://www.canadiansinvietnam.ca/
Seeking
Sanctuary: Draft Dodgershttp://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-348/conflict_war/draft_dodgers/
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-593/conflict_war/gulf_war/
Chronology of Canadian Military History: Canada and the First World
Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1914first_ww_e.shtml
Chronology of Major Events in the Great Warhttp://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Chronology.html
The Canadian
Great War homepage: Timeline for Canadahttp://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/time.htm
Affairs Canada: The First World Warhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/FirstWar
Remembered: World War I — A Brief Historyhttp://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/worldwariabriefhistory.html
The Canadian
Great War Homepage: Canada’s Role in World War I, 1914-1918http://www.rootsweb.com/~ww1can/index.html
Soldiers of
the First World War – Canadian Expeditionary Forcehttp://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/cef/
Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Grouphttp://www.cefresearch.com/
CEF:
Canadian Troop Strength in Siberia, 1918-1919http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/cef.html
For King and Empire:
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great Warhttp://www.kingandempire.com/
the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridgehttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/vimy
http://www.censol.ca/research/greatwar/index.html
The
Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/vimy/index_e.shtml
Combatting
the Elements: Mud and Trench Warfare in World War Ihttp://victoria.tc.ca/history/forum/sandstrom.dubois
Newfoundland
and the Great Warhttp://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/default.html
Newfoundland Regiment at the Sommehttp://www.heritage.nf.ca/greatwar/articles/somme.html
Veterans Interviewshttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/interviews
Oral Histories of the First World War : Veterans 1914-1918http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/index-e.html
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers our Canadian War Heroeshttp://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/gray/index.html
Forgotten
Faces, Forgotten Names: In Memory of Cranbrook’s Contribution to WWIhttp://www.fortsteele.ca/exhibits/wwi/main/index.asp
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/turner/default.htm
No
Man’s Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamiltonhttp://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no4/hamilton.html
The Battlefield Art of
Mary Riter Hamiltonhttp://www.worldwar1.com/sfmrh.htm
Philately and the
Third Battle of the Ypres Salient in 1917http://www.cfps-web.com/23-2c.html
http://collectionscanada.ca/passchendaele/index-e.html
Les
Purs Canayens: Canadian Posters of the First World Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/purscan/purineng.shtml
Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World Warhttp://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/vexhibit/warpost/english/home.htm
Posters from the First World Warhttp://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/posters/index.aspx
vétéran se rappellehttp://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/gould.html
War Diaries
of the First World Warhttp://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020152_e.html
fronthttp://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/athanase.html
World War Love Storyhttp://archeion-aao.fis.utoronto.ca/ArcheionVirtualExhibit/love.html
Mother’s Warhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=51
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers Our Canadian War Heroeshttp://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/gray/index.aspx
Québec sous le règne d’Anastasie : l’expérience
censoriale durant la Première Guerre mondialehttp://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/2004/v57/n3/009592ar.html
Internment
of Ukrainians in Canada, 1914-1920http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/
http://www.archeologie.qc.ca/passee_spiritlake_fr.php?menu=3
http://www.halifax.ca/Community/explode.html
Chronology of Canadian Military History: Canada and the Second World
Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1931crisis_e.shtml
The
Canadian Military Heritage Project: World War II Historical Timelinehttp://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww2/ww2view.htm
and the Second World Warhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar
Canada’s
Military Heritage: The Second World Warhttp://www.waramps.ca/military/vignettes/home.html
Juno Beach Centre: Canada in
WWIIhttp://www.junobeach.org/
Democracy
at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/intro_e.shtml
Second World War as a National Experiencehttp://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/docs/Natl_exp.pdf
Remembrances:
Canada and the Second World Warhttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Militaris/
Art
and War: Australia, Britain and Canada in the Second World Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artwar/introduction_e.shtml
The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/explore/military-history/dispatches/
the-royal-canadian-navy-and-the-battle-of-the-atlantic-1939-1945
Battle of the Atlantichttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm/history/secondwar/atlantic
The Battle
of the Atlantic: Royal Canadian Navyhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/atlantic
Canadian
Merchant Ship Losses of the Second World War, 1939-1945http://www.familyheritage.ca/Articles/merchant1.html
Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrencehttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/battlegulf
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/dieppe
The World War II Home Front
in Summerside Prince Edward Island
http://www.wyattheritage.com/homefront/main.asp
Through a Lens:
Dieppe in Photography and Filmhttp://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/dieppe/index-e.html
1944 — Canada Remembershttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Normandy
1944, Juno Beachhttp://normandy.eb.com/normandy/week2/Juno_Beach.html
Belgium, 1944-1994http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Belgium
- Netherlands, 1945-2000http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/netherlands
Battle of the Scheldt, 1944-1994http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/scheldt
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/manna.html
Italy, 1943-1945http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/Italy
The Canadian Battle – December 1943http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000186
in Asia, 1941-1945http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/asia
Fortress Europe: German Coastal Defences and the Canadian Role in Liberating the Channel Portshttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/explore/military-history/dispatches/
fortress-europe-german-coastal-defences-and-the-canadian-role-in-liberating-the-channel-portshttp://www.testaments.ca/Testaments_of_Honour/Welcome.html
Canadian tunnellers
in Gibraltar in WW IIhttp://www.cfps-web.com/21-1b.html
Canada”: A Canadian Maquisardhttp://alain.cerri.free.fr/index6.html#English%20version.
Courage: Canadian Secret Agents in the Second World Warhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/courage
Sir William
Stephenson: A brief biographyhttp://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007701
Royal Canadian Air
Force: The War Years, 1939-1945http://www.rcaf.com/1939_1945_waryears/
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/command.html
The British
Commonwealth Air Training Planhttp://www.lancastermuseum.ca/bcatp.html
Canadian War
Industry During the Second World Warhttp://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/war-industry/index-e.html
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/ISSUE/Women/index.htm
Grandmother’s Wartime Diaryhttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/diary/grandmother&CFNoCache=TRUE
World War: They serve that men may flyhttp://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/clips/5096/
Women Come
to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcastershttp://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
The
Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Fronthttp://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/d-day/index.aspx
censure en temps de guerre : Radio-Canada et le plébiscite
http://www.erudit.org/revue/haf/1998/v52/n2/005347ar.pdf
A
Garrison Country: Newfoundland and Labrador during the Second World Warhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/explore/military-history/dispatches/
the-history-of-newfoundland-and-labrador-during-the-second-world-war
Canadian War Brides of World War
Twohttp://canadianwarbrides.com/
Your Heart: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canadahttp://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cjs/article/view/19824
Open
Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Projecthttp://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/orphans/english/
The Canadian
War Children of World War Two Forgotten Historyhttp://www.project-roots.com/forgotten.html
The
Montreal and Verdun Zoot-Suit disturbances of June 1944http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/explore/resources-for-scholars/essays-1/
military-history/serge-marc-durflinger/the-montreal-and-verdun-zoot-suit-disturbances-of-june-1944
Alternative Service in the
Second World War: Conscientious Objectors in Canada 1939-1945http://www.alternativeservice.ca/
Canadian Internment: Information at the University of Washington Libraries
and Beyondhttp://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Canada/internment/intro.html
Relocation
to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadianshttp://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-568/conflict_war/internment/
Canadian
Fire Fighters in England During WWIIhttp://firehouse651.com/posten/index.html
Remembered: Canadians in Koreahttp://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/KoreaWar/valour
http://www.korean-war.com/canada.html
Army in Korea: The United Nations Operations, 1950-53, and Their
Aftermathhttp://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=11
Archives: Korean Warhttp://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=71&IDDos=112&IDLan=1&IDMenu=71
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/peacekeeping/menu-e.asp
1815 to Todayhttp://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=3&BfId=1
Peacekeepers
and Peacemakers: Canada’s Diplomatic Contributionhttp://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-659/conflict_war/diplomacy/
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/explore/military-history/dispatches/canada-and-nato
http://www.members.shaw.ca/kcic1/peacekeepers.html
Canada’s UNTEA / UNSF
operation in Dutch New Guinea (1962-1963)http://www.cfps-web.com/22-3c.html
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