April 20, 2020
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Biography in Context – biographies of Billy Bishop, Arthur Currie, John McCrae, Henri Bourassa, Robert Borden & Nellie McClung
WebPath Express
World Book Advanced
World History in Context
General Resources
CBC Digital Archives
Canada and the First World War – Veteran Affairs Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia – excellent place to start
First World War – Library & Archives Canada – has info on many of the topics for this project
Primary Sources: World War I – Canada – list of links with info on Canada & WWI from Christopher Newport University
Serving the world from our shores – Library & Archives Canada – indigenous soldiers, youth, etc.
World War One – Wartime Canada – collection of primary documents (records, forms, letters, certificates)
War Diaries of First World War – Library & Archives Canada
World War I links – Archives Ontario – artists, posters, letters, etc.
Canadian Expeditionary Force – Library & Archives Canada
Battles
Great War Album – Canadian Heritage – click on “Battle Fronts” at the top
Farming
Agriculture – Wartime Canada
Farmers’ contributions to the war effort were immeasurable – GuelphMercury.com
Farming & Food – Canadian War Museum
Lois Allan, Farm Services Corps- Library & Archives Canada
Front Line
Life o the Front Lines – Canadian Heritage
Trench Conditions – Canadian War Museum
Rest & Leisure – Canadian War Museum – mentions YMCA
Labour Shortage
Chinese recruited for war had secret passage through Canada – CTV News
Food, Fuel & Inflation – Canadian War Museum
The Great War & the General Strike – Opentextbc
Letters
World War I Collections – Victoria Island University
Military Services Act
Christmas War Letters – Ottawa Citizen
Conscription in Canada – Canadian Encyclopedia
The Conscription Crisis – CBC
Conscription 1917 – Canadian War Museum
Military Services Act – Canadian Encyclopedia
Propaganda Posters
Canadian posters from the First World War – Ontario Ministry of Government & Consumer Services
Propaganda posters – list of images from Google search
Recruitment posters – Ontario Ministry of Government & Consumer Services
Red Cross
Red Cross – Canada World War I
Red Cross and the First World War
Treaty of Versailles
Canada and the Versailles Treaty – Wartime Canada
The War’s Impact on Canada – Canadian Museum of War
First World War Collection – The Canadian Encyclopedia
Treaty of Versailles – The Canadian Encyclopedia
League of Nations – Paris Peace Conference
Treaty of Versailles – The Vimy Foundation
Finance and War Production – War Museum of Canada
Women in the War
First World War – Veterans Canada
Women and Munition Factories – Wartime Canada – collection of photos with brief descriptions
Women and the War – Queens University – an archival look at WWI through a collection of photos with brief descriptions
Canada Remembers Women on the Home Front – Veterans Canada
Biographies of Nursing Sisters during WWI – Library & Archives Canada
YMCA
The YMCA in the First World War – Great War Centre
Creation of YMCA Hero – Canada’s Great War Album