USEFUL LINKS: CANADA AND WAR MEMORY

General

• Canada At War -- A Guide To Library And Archives Canada Websites Recalling The Canadian War Experience:  A portal to assorted war-related exhibitions.

• : CBC Archives: Conflict And War

• :  The new Canadian War Museum.

• :  A Canadian government site that traces the history of warfare in Canada from the War of 1812 to World War II.

•   : A site dedicated to keeping alive the first-hand stories of Canadian service men and women.

• "We Will Remember": War Monuments In Canada: A detailed catalogue of Canadian war monuments.

• Canadian Virtual War Memorial: A Veterans Affairs Canada site that offers information about the graves and memorials of the more than 116,000 Canadian  and Newfoundland soldiers who have died in action.

• War And Conflict:  A short photo-essay from the larger Library and Archive Canada "Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory" exhibit.

World War I

• Canada And The First World War:  A Library and Archives Canada web-site.

• Canadians In The First World War And The Road To Vimy:  An introduction from Veterans Affairs Canada.

•  Canvas Of War -- Vimy War Memorial : The history of the monument as presented by the Canadian War Museum.

• Call To Duty -- Canada's Nursing Sisters: A Library and Archives Canada site that chronicles the history of nurses in World War I.

• Great War:  The official web-site for a 2007 CBC documentary.

•   Internment Of Ukrainians In Canada, 1914-1920:  Commemorates the war-time imprisonment of these Canadians.

• Lest We Forget : Letters from World War I Canadian soldiers assembled by the Canadian Military Heritage Project.

• Newfoundland And The Great War: A Memorial University-produced site that recounts the devastating effect World War had on the colony.

•   Oral Histories Of The First World War -- Veterans, 1914-1918:  A Library and Archives Canada site derived from a 1964-65 CBC Radio production.

• Soldiers Of The First World War:  A Library and Archives and Canada data-base that includes attestation papers of some 600,000 enlisted men.

World War II

•   Canada's War In Colour:  The companion web-site for a three-part 2005 CBC documentary.

• :  Photographs from the Department of National Defence collection at Library and Archives Canada.

• Through A Lens -- Dieppe In Photography And Film:  A Library and Archives Canada virtual exhibition.

• Valour And The Horror  : The web-site for the controversial early 1990s CBC documentary on Canada and the Second World War.

•   Victory Bonding -- Wartime Messages From Canada's Government, 1939-1945

Art Of War

• Canvas of War -- Masterpieces From The Canadian War Museum:  Canadian art of the two world wars.

• Canadian War Artists: A virtual exhibition from Library and Archives Canada.

•   Canadian War Poster Collection: Drawn from McGill University Special Collections.

• Mary Riter Hamilton -- Traces Of War:  A Canadian artist who sought to capture the shadows of war after 1918.

•   Ultimate Captain Canuck Tribute Page: A web-site devoted to a Canadian comic published in the 1970s through the early 1980s in which a superhero government agent battled evil throughout the nation and abroad.