Canada Second World War

Canada Second World War Research Resources

Library and Archives Canada Pages

• Military History: Second World War
• Military medals, honours and awards, 1912-1969
• Second World War Service Files - War Dead, 1939 to 1947 search page
  
• Guide to Sources Relating to Canadian Naval Vessels
  

 Wayback copy of Library and Archives Canada Pages

• Military Heritage: Second World War
• Merchant Marines
  

Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Pages

• Library and Archives Canada: Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) 
• Library and Archives Canada: Make an ATIP request
• Treasury Board: Access to Information and Personal Information Online Request Service 
• Veterans Affairs: Make a request
  

Merchant Navy 

• Merchant Marines
  
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial (select "Canadian Merchant Navy" as the Unit/Regiment)
• Wreck Site - Details concerning shipwrecks

Ancestry Collections

• Canada, Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961
• Canada, Royal Canadian Air Force Crash Cards, 1939-1945 
• 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 and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966
• UK and Allied Countries, World War II Liberated Prisoner of War Questionnaires, 1945-1946
• 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

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

Maps

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

 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 Aviation and Space Museum Library and Archives
• Canada's Books of Remembrance
• Canadian Aircraft Serials Personnel Information Resource 
  
• Canadian Army Overseas Honours and Awards (1939-45)
• Canadian Military History
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial
• Canadian War Museum 
• Canadian War Museum - Find a Medal
• Canadiana Héritage
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Democracy at War (newspaper clippings)
• Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH)
• 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)
• Royal Canadian Air Force history and heritage
• The Canada Gazette Archive
  
• The Gazette (London)
• The National Archives (Kew)
• War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War (WO 416)
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 [Updated 16 Oct 2025]