Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada's Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience

First World War

November 11th, 2011 marks the 93rd anniversary of the end of the First World War. The First World War lasted from 1914-1918.

Exhibitions

Aboriginal Documentary Heritage

• Aboriginal Soldiers

ARCHIVED - Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Introduction

ARCHIVED - Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters

• Alice Isaacson: Her photographs

ARCHIVED - Canada and the First World War

• Introduction

Canadian Poetry Archive

• McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" - original version ARCHIVED - written in McCrae's hand
• McCrae, John - "The Anxious Dead"
• Crémazie, Octave - "Le Vieux Soldat canadien"
• Wilkins, Harriett Annie - "Death of Captain Vicars"
• Wilkins, Harriett Annie - "The Soldier of Auvergne"

Cool Canada

• ARCHIVED - Inventions - Gas Mask

ARCHIVED - Famous Canadian Physicians

• Sir Frederick Banting
• Dr. Norman Bethune
• Sir William Osler
• Dr. Wilder Penfield

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• Speech before the Canadian Club of Halifax, December 18, 1914.
• Speech before the Canadian Club at Winnipeg, December 29, 1914.
• Appeal for national service, Ottawa, October 23, 1916.
• Speech before the House of Commons, May 18, 1917.
• Speech at the Directors' Luncheon, Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa, September 9, 1918

Lest We Forget

• Introduction

Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War

• Introduction

ARCHIVED - Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918

• Introduction

Shipwreck Investigations at Library and Archives Canada

• Investigating the Letitia

SOS! Canadian Disasters

• The Halifax Explosion

ARCHIVED - Virtual Silver Screen

• Canada at War: Watch an account of the Battle of Vimy Ridge

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

View the LAC photostream on Flickr:

• Canada and the First World War
  [www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/sets/72157622565188207/]

Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War

• Database

Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War

• Database

Courts-martial of the First World War

• Introduction

From Colony to Country:

• ARCHIVED - First World War

Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Medals, Honours and Awards

• Introduction

Royal Canadian Navy Ledger Sheets

• Introduction

Sheet Music From Canada's Past:

• Music on the Home Front (First World War)

Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)

• Introduction

Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings

• First World War Era

ARCHIVED - War Diaries of the First World War (ArchiviaNet)

• Introduction