Canada Second World War

Canada Second World War Research Resources

Library and Archives Canada Pages

• Military History: Second World War
• Military Heritage: Second World War (Wayback Archive)
  
• Military medals, honours and awards, 1912-1969
• Requests for Military Service Files
• Second World War Service Files - War Dead, 1939 to 1947 search page
  
• Guide to Sources Relating to Canadian Naval Vessels
  
• The Canada Gazette Archive

Ancestry Collections

• Canada, Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961
• Canada, Selected Service Records of War Dead, 1939-1945
• Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
• Canada, World War II Newsreels, 1942-1945
  
• Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
• Canada, World War II, Faces of the Second World War, 1941-1945
• UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
• UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
  
• UK, Merchant Seamen Deaths, 1939 -1953
• UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970
• UK, Victoria Cross Medals, 1857-2007
• UK, World War II Allied Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
• UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
• Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966 

Merchant Navy 

• Merchant Marines
  
• Merchant Marines (Wayback Archive of LAC)
• Veterans Affairs ATIP Request 
  
• Merchant Navy War Dead Registry
• Wreck Site - Details concerning ship wrecks

Maps

• Library of Congress World War II Maps
• McMaster University Maps: World War II
• Project ’44
  

Courts Martials

Army

• Finding Aid 24-403 
• Canadian Army Courts Martial microfilms

Royal Canadian Air Force

• Finding Aid 24-686
• Royal Canadian Air Force Courts Martial microfilms

Photographs

• Findmypast - World War Two Canadian Photograph Collection
• For Posterity’s Sake
• Royal Canadian Legion “Military Service Recognition Books” - See John D. Reid's Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections blog post "Find Family in Royal Canadian Legion Military Service Recognition Books"
  

Films: Canadian Army Newsreels

• PDF Summary of films
• YouTube play list

Other Sites

• Canada Books of Remembrance
• Canadian Army Overseas Honours and Awards (1939-45)
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial
• Canadiana Héritage
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Democracy at War (newspaper clippings)
• Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH) Histories
• Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association
  
• Internet Archive
  
• Legion Magazine Last Post
• Military Heritage Research Centre
• Organization of Military Museums of Canada
• Findmypast - Prisoners of War, 1715-1945
  
• RCAF Association Search Awards
• ReadyAyeReady (promoting history and heritage of the RCN)
  
• The Gazette (London)
• The National Archives (Kew)

 
 [Updated 3 Nov 2023]