LINKS

WEBSITE INFORMATION

http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/page-603-eng.asp

Canadian Military Heritage (1872 - 2000)

Chapter 4 covers everything!

• Canada in 1914

• Canada’s Participation in the War

• Mobilization

• Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)

• The Hughes Method and Camp Valcartier

• The Canadian Combatant

• The Canadian Officer

• Casualties

• The Burdens of War

• From Canada to Britain and France

• Ypres Defended

• Givenchy and Festubert

• The Terror of the Somme

• Vimy Ridge

• Hill 70 and Lens

• Passchendale

• The Final Year

• Amiens

• The Citadel Falls

• Other Canadian Participants

• Wartime Tactical Developments

• Canadian Aviators

• Pilot Training on Canadian Soil

• Fleet Air Arm

• Air Force Roles

• Effectiveness of the Air Arm

• Canadians in Imperial Air Forces

• Canada’s Military Effort: Summing Up

• Assertion of Canadian Identity

• Canadian POWs

• French Canadians and the French Language in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

• Rejection of Volunteers

• Special Canadian Souls

http://www.kingandempire.com/

For King and Empire: Canadian soldiers in the Great War

• Information on the battlefields of Vimy and Passchendaele

• Timelines

• Glossaries

• Maps

• Major players

http://www.firstworldwar.com/

First World War

• Good resource of primary source documents with Canadian content

http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/home-e.aspx

Canadian War Museum

• Canadian Wartime Propaganda, Vimy Ridge, Trench Warfare, Chronology of WWI

• Life at home during the war - Recruitment and conscription, War Economy, Homefront, Voices for peace, Internment of Ukrainian Canadians, Halifax explosion

http://www.canadianletters.ca/collections.php?warid=3

Canadian Letters and Images Project

• Primary Source Documents from World War One

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war

Veterans Affairs Canada

• Historical perspective on the role of Canada, and includes overviews of Canada's involvement in the war, interviews with veterans, diaries and letters, and much more.

• Aboriginal Canadian Veterans

• Black Canadians in Uniform

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/firstworldwar/index-e.html

Canada and the First World War - Library and Archives Canada

• Virtual exhibition providing access to personal accounts of the war and background information on Canada's involvement abroad and on the home front.

http://www.mta.ca/library/courage/worldwariabriefhistory.html

WW1 - A Brief History - Courage Remembered

• This website presents the role that Canadian soldiers played in WWI as shown through personal memoirs, photography, art work by Canadian war artists and the documented exploits of Canadian George Cross and Victoria Cross recipients.

http://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/archival-resources-teachers/archival-look-world-war-i

An Archival Look at World War I (Queen's University Archives)

• Original photographs, correspondence and documents cover the Canadian home front, the technology of WWI, Women during WWI and WWI warfare

• Queen's Remembers:  WWI Memorials

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/first-world-war-internment-camps-a-difficult-scar-for-canadian-ukrainians-1.939742

CTV News:  First World War internment camps a 'difficult scar' for Canadian Ukrainian

• Aug 3, 2014 - First World War internment camps a dark chapter in Canadian history ... Like most of those in the camps, his family was Ukrainian. Bayrak's  ...

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/index.aspx

Canadian Posters From the First World War - Archives of Ontario

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/#the_human_experience

BBC History:  WWI Movies - The Human Experience

• This BBC multimedia production involves contemporary photographs, dramatized diary readings and interviews with veterans exploring key themes of World War One. Each chapter may take a couple of minutes to download the first time you view it, so please be patient.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w1frm.htm

Eyewitness to History - WWI

• An award-winning website presenting history through the perspective of those who actually lived it.

• Awards include:  Yahoo! Pick of the Week, USA Today Outstanding Website, Best of History Website, Innovative Teaching Award and Kim Komando Cool Site of the Day.

http://spartacus-educational.com/FWW.htm

Encyclopedia of WWI

• The Spartacus encyclopedia contains the following sections: Chronology, Outbreak of War, Countries, Allied Armed Forces, Important Battles, Technology, Political Leaders, British Home Front, Military Leaders, Life in the Trenches, Trench System, Trench War, Soldiers, War Heroes, Medals, War at Sea, War in the Air, Pilots, Aircraft, War Artists, Cartoonists and Illustrators, War Poets, Journalists, Newspapers and Journals, Novelists, Women at War, Women's Organizations, Weapons and Machines, Inventors and the War, Theatres of War, and War Statistics.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/index.html

The WWI Document Archive

• An important source of links to primary documents, such as treaties and personal recollections

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

The Great War (PBS)

• Site includes interviews, maps, a timeline, and brief summaries of the series' episodes