Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada's Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience

Second World War

The Second World War was the third major conflict Canada participated in and resulted in over 45,000 Canadian dead. It lasted from 1939-1945.

Exhibitions

Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective

• Obituary of Dudley "Red" Garrett
• Prisoners' hockey team, internment camp 132, Medicine Hat, Alberta, February 25, 1946

Canadian War Artists

• Intoduction

Canadian War Industry during the Second World War

• Intoduction

Faces of War

• Intoduction

Famous Canadian Physicians

• Dr. Gustave Gingras

First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics

• Address on the national security plebiscite, April 7, 1942
• Canada and the war: manpower and a total war effort: national selective service broadcast, August 19, 1942
• Canada and the war: temperance and a total war effort: national selective service broadcast, December 16, 1942

Portrait Gallery

• Talking portraits: Molly Lamb Bobak: Canada's First Female Official War Artist

Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film

• Intoduction

Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945

• Intoduction

Research (Digital Collections/Bibliography)

Photographs - National Film Board of Canada: War Records Manufacturing (WRM) Series

• Intoduction

From Colony to Country

• Second World War