The British Columbia History Internet/Web Site

Historical Disciplines and Subjects: Military

• British Columbia Military Heritage Society
• Canada and the First World War (National Archives of Canada) is an online exhibit based on National Archives records.
• Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) Database (National Archives of Canada)
• The Canadian Letters and Images Project: An Online Project to Preserve Canada's Wartime Experience Through Letters and Images (History Dept., Malaspina University-College). Transcriptions and digital facsimiles of letters, along with photographs, relating to Canadians in various wars.
• The Canadian Military History Project (Brian Lee Massey and Lorine McGinnis Schulze)
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Veterans Affairs Canada and Canada's Digital Collections) includes a complete database of all known Canadians killed in military combat since The Nile Expedition (1884-1885). The database also contains military awards and a cemetery location. Links are available to other Web sites documenting Canadian war dead. The public is encouraged to submit information and photographs of ancestors or relatives killed or missing in battle.
• Canadian War Artists Exhibition (National Archives of Canada)
• Canadian War Poster Collection (Rare Books and Special Collections Division McGill University Libraries)
• Courage Remembered: The World Wars Through Canadian Eyes (Canada's Digital Collections)
• Directorate of History and Heritage, National Defence Canada, includes online editions of out-of-print official military histories, a database of Significant Dates in Canadian Military History, and other historical information about Canada's military.
• Drobnicki, John A. The War of Griffin’s Pig: A Bibliography of the Anglo-American Northwest Boundary Dispute. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, c1999. Hosted by York College, City University of New York (CUNY). Originally published in the Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 56, No. 2 (June 1999), 65-68. Date accessed: 2002.07.23. Date added: 2002.07.23.
• 54th Kootenay Battalion, CEF, 1915-1919 (Patricia A. Rogers) documents the history of this First World War military unit. This Web site was awarded the second BC History Web Site Prize on May 5, 2001 in Richmond.
• Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site (Victoria)
• From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History (National Library of Canada) is an online bibliographic guide to Canada military actions in the Northwest Rebellion, South African War, and World War One.
• An Interactive History of the Canadian Navy (Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 2001.08.22.
• Japanese Canadian Internment Information at the University of Washington Libraries and Beyond
• My Grandmother's Wartime Diary (Veterans Affairs Canada) is an anthology of World War Two reminiscences. Date added: 2001.10.11.
• Naval Heritage (Maritime Forces Pacific, Esquimalt, National Defence Canada)
• Pieces of Paper: Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America During World War II (Canada's Digital Collections)
• Royal Westminster Regiment (New Westminster; official site)
• San Juan Island National Historic Park (San Juan Island, WA) commemorates the joint military occupation by American and British troops between 1859-1872 of the site of the Pig War.
• Vancouver Wireless Station (By Jim Troyanek). Illustrated history of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS) Vancouver Wireless Station which operated in Delta, BC, from 1949 to August 1971 when it was moved to Queen Charlotte Islands.
• Veterans Affairs Canada
• Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945 Exhibition (National Archives of Canada)
• We Will Remember Them: The Lives Behind the Richmond Cenotaph (City of Richmond Archives, BC). Researched and written by Mary Keen.
• "We Will Remember": War Monuments in Canada (Canada's Digital Collections)

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