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Military and naval history – Canada
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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






  1. General history



    2. The Canadian
    Military History Timeline

    http://www.lermuseum.org/ler/tl/index.html


    DND
    Directorate of History and Heritage

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/index-eng.asp


    HREF="http://www.lackenbauer.ca/Hist610/Rdgs/1-Stacey-Intro.pdf">Introduction
    to the Study of Military History for Canadian Students

    http://www.lackenbauer.ca/Hist610/Rdgs/1-Stacey-Intro.pdf


    Canadian Military
    Heritage

    http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/en/default.asp


    Canadian Military Heritage

    Volume
    I, 1000-1754

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=56



    Volume
    II, 1755-1871

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=57



    Volume
    III, 1872-2000

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=58


    The
    Canadian Military Heritage Project

    http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/index.html


    Canadian Military History Since the 17th Century

    http://www.lackenbauer.ca/Hist610/Rdgs/Tremblay-CdnMilHist.pdf


    HREF="http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/defending/index.htm">Defending
    Canada

    http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/defending/index.htm


    Library
    and Archives Canada – War and Military

    http://www.collectionscanada.ca/war-military/index-e.html


    War
    and the Military

    http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/vol2_3/gen06.htm


    Canadian
    Military History Since the 17th Century

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=3&BfId=24


    HREF="http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/her-pat/sdcmh-dshmc-eng.asp">Significant
    Dates in Canadian Military History

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/her-pat/sdcmh-dshmc-eng.asp


    HREF="http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/treasure/military.html">Treasures
    Gallery: Military History items

    http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/treasure/military.html


    The Canadian Letters
    & Images Project

    http://www.mala.bc.ca/history/letters/


    Images
    Canada: Canada at War

    http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail10


    CBC DIgital Archives: War & Conflict

    http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/


    The Canadian Wartime Experience:
    The Documentary Legacy of Canada at War

    http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/canada_war/


    Heroes Remember

    http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/hrp


    HREF="http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=67">A
    Sketch Account of Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military

    http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=67


    Women
    throughout Canadian military history

    http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/military/025002-1070-e.html


    A Hundred Years
    of Military Communications and Electronics

    http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/hist_e1.htm


    Mark Our Place:
    Images and Memoirs of New Brunswicker’s in Wartime

    http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/MOP/index.asp


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  2. The French régime



    3. Organisation
    militaire de la Nouvelle-France

    http://www3.sympatico.ca/dis.general/nfrance.htm


    The Organization of
    New France

    http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/en/page_141.asp


    HREF="http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist4/Enrichi/defense.htm">Défense
    de la Nouvelle-France: La Petite Guerre (1660-1760)

    http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist4/Enrichi/defense.htm


    Memoir
    for the Marquis de Seignelay regarding the Dangers that Threaten Canada
    and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687

    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/france/seign.htm


    Narrative
    of the Heroic Deeds of Madeleine de Verchères

    http://www.fawi.net/ezine/vol3no3/Vercheres.html


    British
    and French Clash

    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch2_p3.htm


    Clash
    of Empires and The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/gallery1/clash_e.shtml


    The Seven
    Years War Website

    http://www.militaryheritage.com/7yrswar.htm


    The
    Seven Years War

    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/7yearswar2/7yearsxx.htm


    HREF="http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/phips/wreck02.htm">Phips’
    Expeditions against New France

    http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/phips/wreck02.htm


    HREF="http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist4/Enrichi/royale.htm">La
    garnison de l’île Royale (1713-1745)

    http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist4/Enrichi/royale.htm


    HREF="http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/fortifications/natcul/natcul1a_e.asp">Fortifications
    of Québec National Historic Site

    http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/fortifications/natcul/natcul1a_e.asp


    A
    Map of the Plan of the River St. Laurence with the Operations of the Siege
    of Quebec on Sept. 5, 1759

    http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/quebecmap/index.html


    1755 – The French and Indian
    War

    http://www.clpgh.org/research/pittsburgh/history/frenchindianwar.html


    1759: From the
    Warpath to the Plains of Abraham

    http://1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/index.html


    The
    French and Indian War’s Impact on America

    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/fiwar/frenchxx.htm


    Joseph Brant
    (Thayendanegea), Mohawk

    http://www.indians.org/welker/brant.htm


    Newfoundland
    Museum Notes Number 10: A Century of Armed Conflict in
    Newfoundland

    http://www.therooms.ca/museum/mnotes10.asp


    HREF="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6026">The
    Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg, 1720-1760

    http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=6026


    HREF="http://hubpages.com/hub/Battle-of-Louisbourg-1745-AD">Battles
    at Louisbourg

    http://hubpages.com/hub/Battle-of-Louisbourg-1745-AD


    HREF="http://www.carbonear.ca/thistory.htm">The
    History of Carbonear Island

    http://www.carbonear.ca/thistory.htm


    The
    Battle of the Restigouche

    http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/qc/ristigouche/index.aspx


    Terre-Neuve 1762

    http://www.terre-neuve-1762.info/


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  3. The British colonial period



    4. HREF="http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/canp1/ca16eng.shtml">Canada Hall:
    The British Military

    http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/canp1/ca16eng.shtml


    HREF="http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774british_north_e.shtml">A
    Chronology of Canadian Military History: Canada within the Empire

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774british_north_e.shtml


    The
    American Revolution, 1775-1783

    http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/gallery1/revolution_e.shtml


    Index to
    Ontario’s Loyalists

    http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/indexloy.htm


    Fallen Timbers
    Battlefield: Archaeological Project

    http://www.heidelberg.edu/FallenTimbers/


    History of Tecumseh

    http://www.answers.com/topic/tecumseh


    War
    of 1812

    http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/sswetw/index.html


    War of
    1812-1814

    http://members.tripod.com/~war1812/index.html


    The War of
    1812

    http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/index.html


    1812 And All That

    http://royalscotsgrenadiers.com/1812allthat.html


    Visiting
    American History – The War of 1812

    http://tippecanoe.tripod.com/1812.html


    America’s
    First Defeat

    http://www.lutins.org/1812.html


    Re-living history:
    The War of 1812 in North America

    http://library.thinkquest.org/22916/


    HREF="http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/1812.canadian.nationalism">The
    War of 1812 and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism

    http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/1812.canadian.nationalism


    The War of
    1812/La guerre de 1812

    http://www.militaryheritage.com/1812.htm


    War of
    1812

    http://www.gatewayno.com/History/War1812.html


    HREF="http://www.rpsc.org/Library/1812/warof1812.htm">Canada and the War of 1812

    http://www.rpsc.org/Library/1812/warof1812.htm


    The War of 1812

    http://www.multied.com/1812/


    The Road to
    Washington, British Army Style

    http://www.tc-solutions.com/croom/1812.html


    The War
    of 1812: Niagara to Stoney Creek

    http://www.battlefieldhouse.ca/war1812.asp


    Canadians
    in the American Civil War

    http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/canadian_tourism/97383


    HREF="http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dbertuca/g/FenianRaid.html">Fenian
    Invasions of Canada

    http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dbertuca/g/FenianRaid.html


    HREF="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/fenians/index.aspx">Documents
    from the Front: The American Civil War and Fenian Raids in the 1860s

    http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/fenians/index.aspx



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