Further Reading

The following sections provide suggested resources on topics presented in this exhibit. Each link will redirect you to an external website. Depending on your browser settings, each site will be opened in a new tab or window. Further, these websites may only be unilingual and may not be accessible to a screen reader.

General Resources – First World War

Canada’s Great War Album
Canadian Centre for the Great War
Canada and the First World War (Canadian War Museum)
World War I (National Film Board)
Canadian Great War Project

General Resources – Both wars

General Resources – Second World War:

Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War (Canadian War Museum)
Canadian War Brides
War, Conflict, and Peace: World War II Archival Films (National Film Board)
Canadian Army Newsreels
Normandy War Diaries (Laurier Military History Archive)
Enigma Cipher Challenge
Some Were Neighbours (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
The Army Medical Organization (Juno Beach Centre)
Men and Women of the Royal Canadian Navy (Juno Beach Centre)
Service Files of Canadians killed in the Second World War, 1939-1947 (Ancestry.ca)

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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP)

Battle of the Atlantic

Indigenous Efforts in the War

Indigenous Soldiers – Foreign Battlefields

Women in the Military

Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
RCAF Women's Division (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Canadian Women's Army Corps (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Canada Remembers Women in the Canadian Military (Veterans Affairs Canada)
Army Medical Organization (Juno Beach Centre)
Women and the War on the Homefront (Canadian War Museum)
Canadian Women's Army Corps (Juno Beach Centre)
Men and Women of the Royal Canadian Navy (Juno Beach Centre)
The Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division (Juno Beach Centre)
Serving Their Country - Story of the Wrens, 1942-1946
WRENS - A Proud Heritage
Caregiving on the Front: The Experience of Canadian Military Nurses During World War I (Library and Archives Canada)
Biographies of Nursing Sisters During World War I (Library and Archives Canada)

Halifax Explosion

A City Destroyed: CBC News Interactive
The Halifax Explosion (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic)
Halifax Explosion Online Resource (Nova Scotia Archives)

1918 Flu Pandemic

Defining Moments Canada: The 1918 Flu Pandemic

No. 2 Construction Battalion

No. 2 Construction Battalion Operational History
No. 2 Construction Battalion Members (Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia)
No. 2 Construction Battalion (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

Allan Bundy : The RCAF’s First Black Pilot

Allan Bundy (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Black Buffalo: The Story of Flying Officer Allan Selwyn Bundy (Vintage Wings of Canada)
Not So Black and White Black Canadians and the RCAF’s recruiting policy during the Second World War (Canadian Military History, 2015, vol. 21, no 1, article 4)
Racism and Enlistment The Second World War Policies of the Royal Canadian Air Force (Canadian Military History, 2015, vol. 21, no 1, article 3)
Stories of Black Canadian Veterans of the Second World War (The Memory Project)

Returning to Civilian Life

Repatriation and Demobilization (Canadian War Museum)
Demobilization (Wartime Canada)
Civilian Reintegration (Canadian War Museum)

War Time Canada: Veterans Programs

Making Medicare The History of Health Care in Canada 1914-2007 (Canadian Museum of History)

Conscientious Objectors in the First World War

Mennonite Archival Images Database
Conchies Speak: Alternate Service 1941-1945 (Mennonite Archives of Ontario)
Ontario Mennonites in the First World War (Mennonite Archives of Ontario)
Newsletters of Canadians in Alternative Service 1941-1945 (Conrad Grebel University College)
Alternate Service in the Second World War
Conscientious Objectors (Canadian War Museum)

Internment

Japanese Internment: Banished and Beyond Tears (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
Japanese Canadian Internment and the Struggle for Redress (Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
Landscapes of Injustice
Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre
The Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
Italian Canadians as Enemy Aliens: Memories of World War II