Grade 10 Academic History : Canada Since WWI

World War I and the 1920's Through a Creative Perspective

Recommended Websites for WWI by Topic

General Info about Canada’s participation in WWI

• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/introduction.aspx
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1914first_ww_e.shtml
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/introduction/
• http://www.mta.ca/library/courage/worldwariabriefhistory.html

Billy Bishop (Flying Ace)

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-avery-bishop/
• http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/bishop.htm

Black Soldiers

• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/black-canadians-in-uniform
• http://www.blackhistorycanada.ca/topic.php?id=132&themeid=3
• http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/09/wwi_racism_black_asian_and_aboriginal_volunteers_faced_discrimination.html
• https://www.cbc.ca/kids/articles/we-stand-on-guard-for-thee
• https://uwaterloo.ca/news/how-black-and-indigenous-young-men-fought-support-world-war
• https://globalnews.ca/news/6147380/black-canadians-soldiers-world-war-racism/
• https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/trudeau-apologizes-for-racism-faced-by-all-black-canadian-unit-in-first-world-war-1.5980950

Canada’s 100 Days

• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/fact_sheets/hundred-days
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/collection/canadas-hundred-days/

• https://www.lermuseum.org/first-world-war/battlefront-1918/canadas-100-days

• https://www.macleans.ca/history/on-this-day-100-years-ago-canadian-troops-led-the-first-world-wars-final-charge/

• https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/02/hundred-days-offensive.html

Canadian Air Force (War in the Air)

• http://airforcemuseum.ca/en/the-display-gallery/first-world-war-1914-1948
• http://www.mta.ca/library/courage/navalandairbattle.html

• https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/air-war/air-training-in-canada/

• https://www.warandthecanadianexperience.com/the-great-war-in-the-air.html

Canadian Navy (War at Sea)

• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/canadian-armed-forces/royal-canadian-navy/fww
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/sea-war/the-royal-canadian-navy/
• http://www.mta.ca/library/courage/navalandairbattle.html
• https://www.warandthecanadianexperience.com/the-great-war-at-sea.html
• https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/naval-service-1910-2010/first-ww.html

Canadian Soldiers at the Front

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-the-front/
• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/no-job-for-a-boy-ww-i-through-eyes-of-a-canadian-teen-soldier-1.2827448
• http://globalnews.ca/news/1575276/trench-life-in-wwi-dreary-dangerous/
• https://www.cbc.ca/history/SECTIONSE1EP12CH1LE.html
• https://valourcanada.ca/military-history-library/trench-warfare-vignettes/
• https://canadaehx.com/2021/06/13/life-in-the-trenches/

First Nations Soldiers

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/people/in-uniform/first-nations-soldiers/
• http://www.heritage.nf.ca/first-world-war/articles/aboriginals-first-world-war.php
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/aboriginal-soldiers-among-canadas-top-snipers-in-first-world-war/article21475002/
• http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/09/wwi_racism_black_asian_and_aboriginal_volunteers_faced_discrimination.html
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/introduction.aspx#h
• http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/008/001/008001-5000-e.php?&e=1&brws=1&st=Aboriginal%20Documentary%20Heritage:%20Historical%20Collections%20of%20the%20Canadian%20Government&ts_nbr=4&
• https://uwaterloo.ca/news/how-black-and-indigenous-young-men-fought-support-world-war

Individuals – General Info, Diaries

• http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/ww_canada.htm
• http://www.canadianletters.ca/collections/468 (war letters)
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/Pages/war-diaries.aspx (war diaries)
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/diaries-letters-stories/first-world-war

Homefront Issues – General Info

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wartime-home-front

• https://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/archival-resources-teachers/canadian-homefront

• https://www.cbc.ca/history/SECTIONSE1EP12CH2LE.html

Homefront issues – Conscription / French-Canadians

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/military-service-act
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/recruitment-and-conscription/conscription-1917/?anchor=361
• http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH2PA3LE.html
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1914conscription_e.shtml
• https://www.cbc.ca/history/SECTIONSE1EP12CH2LE.html
• https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/conscription-divided-canada-it-also-helped-win-the-first-world-war/
• https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1754&context=cmh

Homefront issues – Farming and Food

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/the-war-economy/farming-and-food/?anchor=371
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/the-home-front/food-fuel-and-inflation/?anchor=383
• http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol13/no2/page57-eng.asp
• http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/production.aspx
• https://canadianheritagematters.weebly.com/heritage--history/first-world-war-food-production
• https://canadaehx.com/2022/05/31/the-soldiers-of-the-soil-2/

Homefront issues - Halifax Explosion

• https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/wartime-tragedies/the-halifax-explosion/?anchor=414
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax-explosion/
• http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH2PA4LE.html
• https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-halifax-explosion
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/canada-first-world-war/Pages/tragedy-home-front.aspx#c

Prime Minister Robert Borden

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/people/canadian-leaders/sir-robert-borden/
• http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/borden.htm
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-robert-borden/

Racism and WWI

• https://toronto.citynews.ca/2014/08/09/not-all-canadians-were-equal-at-first-world-war-recruiting-stations/
• https://uwaterloo.ca/news/how-black-and-indigenous-young-men-fought-support-world-war
• http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/08/09/wwi_racism_black_asian_and_aboriginal_volunteers_faced_discrimination.html

Recruitment/Training at Valcartier

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/going-to-war/canada-enters-the-war/training-at-valcartier/

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/the-eager-doomed-the-story-of-canadas-original-wwi-recruits/article19894761/

• https://www.thestar.com/news/world/ww1/2014/08/01/world_war_1_encyclopedia_valcartier.html

• http://www.parl.ns.ca/greatwar/features/campvalcartier.html

Treaty of Versailles

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/treaty-of-versailles/
• https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles-1
• http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/TreatyofVersailles1919-CanadianHistory.htm
• http://education.historicacanada.ca/en/tools/233
• https://vimyfoundation.ca/battles/the-1919-paris-peace-conference
• https://wartimecanada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/CanadaPeace.1919.pdf (Prime Minister Robert Borden's speech to House of Commons in Sept 1919, discussing the Versailles Treaty)

Trench Warfare and Battle Technology

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/trench-warfare

• https://graphics.wsj.com/100-legacies-from-world-war-1/trench-warfare

• http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm
• https://www.thoughtco.com/trenches-in-world-war-i-1779981
• http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-i
• http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/index.htm

Ukrainian Canadians

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/life-at-home-during-the-war/enemy-aliens/the-internment-of-ukrainian-canadians/
• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/banff-pavilion-highlights-wwi-internment-camps-1.1829468
• http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/first-world-war-internment-camps-a-difficult-scar-for-canadian-ukrainians-1.939742
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/internment/
• https://www.ucc.ca/issues/internment/
• https://activehistory.ca/2018/11/remember-resist-redraw-17-canadas-internment-of-ukrainians-1914-1920/

Women and WWI

• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/women-and-war/homefront
• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/women-and-war/
• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/those-who-served/women-and-war/nursing-sisters#sisterhist2

• https://uwaterloo.ca/communication-arts/war-effort-at-home

• https://vitacollections.ca/multiculturalontario/472/exhibit/11

WWI Battles – Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres)

• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/land-battles/passchendaele/
• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/fact_sheets/passchendaele
• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-passchendaele
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/canada-first-world-war/Pages/passchendaele.aspx
• https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/battle-honours-honorary-distinctions/passchendaele.html
• http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo9/no2/09-leach-eng.asp

WWI Battles – Somme

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-somme/
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/land-battles/the-somme/
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/first-world-war/battle-of-the-somme
• http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH1PA2LE.html
• http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/mould/somme.aspx

WWI Battles – Vimy Ridge

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vimy-ridge/
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/vimy/index_e.shtml
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-vimy-ridge
• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/canada-first-world-war/Pages/vimy-ridge.aspx
• https://vimyfoundation.ca/learn/vimy-ridge
• https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/vimy-ridge

WWI Battles – Ypres (Second Battle)

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-ypres/
• http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/land-battles/second-ypres/
• http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/canada/canada4
• https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Battle-of-Ypres
• https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/02/the-second-battle-of-ypres.html
• https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/the-great-war-battle-of-ypres
• http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/04/17/wwi-letters-toronto-soldier-james-wells-ross-and-the-gas-attacks-at-ypres.html

Recommended Websites for 1920's by Topic

1926 Imperial Conference and Balfour Report

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/balfour-report

• http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1920s/1920s-03-imp-conferences.html

• https://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/resources/transcripts/cth11_doc_1926.pdf

Chanak Crisis

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chanak-affair

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chanak-affair-canada-britain-vimy-independence-1.4061740

• http://www.cepi-cips.ca/2012/10/30/troops-to-turkey-the-chanak-affair-of-1922-and-its-relevance-today-2/

• http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1920s/1920s-05-chanak.html

Chinese Exclusion Act

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-immigration-act

• https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/chinese-immigration-act-1923

• https://www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc/exclusion.html

• http://www.roadtojustice.ca/laws/chinese-exclusion-act

• https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/opinion/2018/05/26/north-americas-racist-ban-on-chinese-immigration-is-an-urgent-history-lesson.html

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/humiliation-day-chinese-canadian-head-tax-exclusion-act-july-1-1.4175025

Flappers

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-the-flapper-part-1-a-call-for-freedom-11957978/

• https://www.thoughtco.com/flappers-in-the-roaring-twenties-1779240

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/flappers

• https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/apr/29/dance-womens-liberation-flappers-1920s

Fred Loft and League of Indians

• http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/008/001/008001-5000-e.php?&e=1&brws=1&st=Aboriginal%20Documentary%20Heritage:%20Historical%20Collections%20of%20the%20Canadian%20Government&ts_nbr=4&

• http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/loft_frederick_ogilvie_16E.html

• https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/fp/fpz4g01e.shtml

• http://www.newfederation.org/Native_Leaders/Bios/Loft.htm

• http://aptnnews.ca/aboriginal-history-month/frederick-loft/

Group of Seven

• http://mcmichael.com/collection/group-of-seven/

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/group-of-seven

• http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/canadian/The-Group-of-Seven.html

• http://www.group-of-seven.org/

Halibut Treaty

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halibut-treaty

• http://www.historylink.org/File/9152

• http://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=103707

Inventions - Insulin

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-discovery-of-insulin

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canada-150/insulin-the-canadian-discovery-that-has-saved-millions-of-lives/article35537847/

• https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/doc/information-backgrounder/decouverte-insuline-insulin-discovery

• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/diabetes/discoveryofinsulin.php

King-Byng Affair

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-byng-affair

• https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/political-scandals-the-king-byng-affair

• https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-king-byng-crisis-of-1926-is-still-paying-it-forward-nearly-a-century-later

• https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/canadian-political-system/king-byng-affair/

• https://www.canadiancrown.com/uploads/3/8/4/1/3841927/evolving_canadian_crown.pdf

Persons Case

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/persons-case

• http://www.famou5.ca/the-persons-case/

• https://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/pd-jp/history-histoire-en.html

• https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/how-why/why-the-persons-case-matters/

• https://www.thoughtco.com/the-persons-case-508713

• https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1929-women-become-persons

Prohibition

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prohibition

• http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/03/22/history-march-221929-prohibition-rum-running-high-seas-diplomatic-row/

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sale-of-liquor-debate-in-saskatchewan-goes-back-100-years-1.3288058

• http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/ProhibitioninCanada.htm

• http://www.vancouversun.com/Prohibition+exciting+times+Canada/10697267/story.html

Residential Schools

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools

• https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schools-in-canada-1.702280

• http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/commissions-report-puts-canada-on-brink-of-a-historic-reckoning/article24825565/

William Lyon Mackenzie King

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-lyon-mackenzie-king

• http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/king_william_lyon_mackenzie_17E.html

• https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-L-Mackenzie-King

• https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/pmportrait/Pages/item.aspx?PersonId=10

• https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/on/laurier/decouvrir-discover/natcul12

   

Winnipeg General Strike

• https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg-general-strike

• https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH3PA2LE.html

• https://www.cpha.ca/fighting-good-fight-winnipeg-general-strike-1919

• https://www.thoughtco.com/winnipeg-general-strike-1919-510002

• hhttps://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/labour/labh22e.shtml