Canada First World War Research Resources
Library and Archives Canada
- Military Heritage: First World War
- War Diaries of the First World War
- Military medals, honours and awards, 1912-1969
- Personnel records – Nurses
- Royal Canadian Navy Service Ledger Sheets, 1910 to 1941
- Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Veterans Death Cards
- Canadian Expeditionary Force: Sailing Lists
Offline resources:
Wayback copy of Library and Archives Canada
Militia and Defence Personnel Files
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Militia and Defence Headquarters Personnel File Services, 1903 to 1938 (Canadian Military History, vol. 31, issue 2, article 2) by Paul Marsden and Glenn Wright
- Militia and Defence personnel files (Heritage)
Nursing Sisters
- Canadian War Museum
- Nursing Sisters in Militia and Defence Personnel Files (LAC Collection Query)
- The Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters [archived]
Voluntary Aid Detachments
- Thesis: "Assistant angels": Canadian women as voluntary aid detachment nurses during and after the Great War, 1914-1930 by Linda J. Quiney
- Parks Canada Backgrounder
- Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
- Book: “This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War” by Linda J. Quiney
Air
- Canadian Aircraft Serials Personnel information Resource
- Findmypast: British Royal Air Force, Officers' Service Records 1912-1920
- The National Archives Squadron Operations Record Books (AIR 27)
Navy
- For Posterity’s Sake
- ReadyAyeReady (promoting history and heritage of the RCN)
Ancestry Collections
- Canada, Canadian Airmen of WWI, 1914-1918
- Canada, CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919
- Canada, Certificates of Military Instruction, 1867-1932
- Canada, Imperial War Service Gratuities, 1919-1921
- Canada, Ledgers of CEF Officers Transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1919
- Canada, Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961
- Canada, Militia and Defence Forces Lists, 1832, 1863-1939
- Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1857-1922
- Canada, Selected Service Records of Soldiers, 1914-1918
- Canada, Soldier Homestead Grant Registers, 1918-1931
- Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
- Canada, World War I CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918
- Canada, World War I CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918
- England, Queen's Canadian Military Hospital Registers, 1914-1919
- U.S., Residents Serving in Canadian Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918
- UK, Naval and Military Courts Martial Registers, 1806-1930
- UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970
- UK, Victoria Cross Medals, 1857-2007
Forces War Records (https://ca.forceswarrecords.com/)
- Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
- Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1915-1919
- Canada, Certificates of Military Instruction, 1864-1932
- Canada, Certificates of Military Instruction, 1867-1932
- Canada, Ledgers of CEF Officers Transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1919
- Canada, Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961
- Canada, WWI, CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918
- Canada, WWI, CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919
- Canada, WWI, RCAF Pilot Cards
- UK, WWI, Queen's Canadian Military Hospital Registers, 1914-1919
Courts Martials
- Courts Martial of the First World War
- Manual of Military Law (1907)
- Ministry of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada: Courts martial records, 1914-1919
- UK, Courts Martial Registers (ADM 193, WO 86, WO 92, WO 213)
Maps
- McMaster University Maps: World War I (1914-1918)
- National Library of Scotland: British First World War Trench Maps
- Western Front Association: Trench Mapper
Prisoners of War
- Prisoners of the First World War, the ICRC archives
- Reparations Commission (McDougall Commission), Maltreatment of Prisoners of War:
Free Online/Downloadable Books
- Canadian Airmen and the First World War, by S. F. Wise
- Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, by G. W. L. Nicholson
Other Sites
- BIFHSGO No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (CCCS) database and biographies
- Canadian Aviation and Space Museum Library and Archives
- Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
- Canadian Great War Project
- Canadian Letters & Images Project
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Canadian Military History
- Canadian War Museum
- Canadian War Museum's: Find a Medal
- Canadiana Héritage
- C.E.F. Paper Trail – Unofficial Guide to Service Records
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Canada's Books of Remembrance
- Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH) Histories
- Internet Archive
- Legion Magazine Last Post
- Military History Research Centre
- Organization of Military Museums of Canada
- The Badge Registry: The Canadian Expeditionary Force
- The Canada Gazette Archive
- The Gazette (London)
- The National Archives (Kew)
- The Regimental Rogue (Highly recommended!)
- Through Veterans Eyes
- Trench Newspapers/Journals
- Western Front Association
- World War Graphic History
- WW1 Canadian Regimental Histories
[Updated: 9 Nov 2024]