The Canadian Wartime Experience:Documentary Legacy

[Guest buflyer]

University of Manitoba just made there archives available online at: University of Manitoba: Archives and Special Collections

fascinating stuff..be prepared to spend some time here

[chris.wight]

Thanks for the tip, buflyer!

I hope more Canadian Universities will follow suit.

[Borden Battery]

Thanks buflyer. There is some material regarding Camp Hughes [trenches still there] and the Icelanders that will be of use to me. I have book-marked the site and will research it more later.

[marc leroux]

Nice find. Thanks for sharing it.

marc

[Borden Battery]

New Brunswick Military Heritage Project Oct 2005

The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project (NBMHP) was initiated in 2000 by the Military and Strategic Studies Program of the University of New Brunswick. Its purpose is to inform the general public of the remarkable military heritage of the province, and to stimulate further research, education and publication in the field. The site also has links to thesis work on military topics including the Great War [ http://www.unbf.ca/arts/CCS/mssccs/set.html ]

http://www.unb.ca/nbmhp/index.htm

[Borden Battery]

Canada & World War One - the First Contingent Dec 2005

A simple but effective image-based, MSN-formatted website dedicated to those who served Canada during World War One. It includes individual accounts, commemoration, images from the Home Front, military medicine, memorabilia, POWs, newspaper captions, links to other websites, propaganda, Native Canadians and war art.

[An M. I. Pirie website]

http://groups.msn.com/CanadaWorldWarOnethe...gent/index.msnw

[DaveNich]

Borden

Thanks for the book list very helpful and detailed.

Dave

[Borden Battery]

Here is a small sample of the CEF Study Group's Recommended Great War websites. While our focus is the Canadian Expeditionary Force [we were not able to win the war by ourselves ] we have created several categories for all other participants. This sampling only shows the first few websites which are about the CEF.

Borden Battery

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CEF Study Group Recommended Great War Websites - 28 December 2005 - [210 sites]

The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group is a discussion forum on the role of the CEF in the Great War. Emphasis is on co-ordinated study, information exchange and discussion of the Great War from the perspective of the CEF. The main element of the CEF Study Group is the discussion forum.

The Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group can be accessed at the following URL address:

http://www.cefresearch.com

The following Great War websites are considered of a higher quality and/or represent unique sources of information on the Internet.

If you have a recommendation Internet website related to either the Canadian Expeditionary Force and/or the Great War in general, or to report a broken website link, please forward a short note and URL address to "Borden Battery".

CEF - Canadian Government Websites - Part 1

Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk "*"

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Library and Archives Canada - Military History

The fundamental URL for most CEF researchers. This site contains a wide range of basic links and represents a "starting point" for many people just beginning research on the CEF in the Great War.

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

Library and Archives Canada - Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)

Over 600,000 Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918). The CEF database is an index to those personnel files, which are held by the National Archives. To date, over 800,000 images of Attestation papers have been scanned and are being made available on-line.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010602_e.html

Library and Archives Canada - War Diaries of the First World War

This database contains the digitized War Diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units. From the start of the First World War, CEF units were required to maintain a daily account of their “Actions in the Field.” This log was called a War Diary. The War Diaries are not personal diaries, rather they are a historical record of a unit’s administration, operations and activities during the First World War.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html

Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War

- Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, C.D., Army Historical Section

This is the classic reference text [the Bible] for any student of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. The original text is very difficult to obtain, however, the document is now available in .pdf format directly from the historical section of the Canadian Armed Forces website. [Note: The pagination in the online document is different than the original document - therefore citations with page number references cannot be used.]

http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/downloads/O...ories/CEF_e.PDF

The Canadian War Museum

The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is an affiliated museum of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The Canadian War Museum, the national military history museum is also a centre for research and the dissemination of information and expertise on all aspects of the country's military past from the pre-contact era to the present. The new museum opens in May 2005.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae Dec 2005

A Canadian federal government website with general background on Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae and includes the South African War and the Great War. The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of McCrae's closest friends was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a simple wooden cross. Wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the crosses marking the many graves. Unable to help his friend or any of the others who had died, John McCrae gave them a voice through his poem. It was the second last poem he was to write.

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?s...firstwar/mccrae

CEF General Research Websites - Part 2

Note: CEF Study Group member websites denoted with asterisk "*"

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*Canadian Great War Project

This site is intended to be used to research Canadians who participated in the Great War 1914-1919. The content is primarily database driven to facilitate searches for information. The site is, and will continue to be, a work in progress, and is becoming a collaborative effort among those interested in researching Canada and the Great War. The site is also developing a database of recommended books and websites. The site is hosted by Marc Leroux.

http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com

*The CEF Paper Trail - Brett Payne Website July 2005

An Unofficial Guide to the Official Canadian Army Service Records from the Great War

This project involves collating examples of each type of document found in a soldier's World War 1 Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Records. The guide is designed to show prospective researchers what they may expect in a soldiers' service records. It's important to be aware that you will only find a selection of these records in your particular CEF soldier's file. Brett Payne and other researchers with the CEF Study Group are seeking additional CEF documents. A very well done summary of representative documents and invaluable for any student of the Great War.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~b...rtrail.html#top

Note: Some images will be slow to load under dial-up access.

Canadian Military History Journal Oct 2005 [updated]

Canadian Military History is a "journal-in-a-magazine-format" published by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies since 1992. Presently in its 13th volume, CMH continues to fulfill its original mandate, this being to explore all aspects of Canada's military history, from the earliest days through to the twenty-first century. Particular emphasis is given to the First and Second World Wars.

http://northernblue.ca/mblog/archives/63-C...ry-Journal.html

Canadian Military History News

A recommended site with a wide range of topics from 1755 until the present. There are a several topical items which are updated on a regular basis and this site is constantly being updated as well.

http://northernblue.ca/mblog/index.php

Canadian Military History Oct 2005 [updated]

- A Bibliography of Regimental and Military Histories and Relative Material in the University of Calgary Library

- a comprehensive listing of CEF material in one qui ...............................................

[Borden Battery]

Camp Hughes Under Threat - Archeological Protection Plan Feb 2006

Camp Hughes (formerly Camp Sewell, circa 1910) near Brandon, Manitoba (not to be confused with Camp Shilo) was utilized to train over 40,000 men for the CEF in the Great War. This 2004 document is a William Galbraith master's thesis [227 pages] from the University of Manitoba. It provides some excellent background, historic and modern photographs including aerial, maps and detailed discussions regarding the preservation of this unique historic Canadian military training base in western Manitoba.

[A Broznitsky Recommendation]

http://www.umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural...esis%202004.pdf