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Military and Peacekeeping
Library and Archives Canada holds an extensive collection of records of the Canadian men and women who have served their country in the military and in the early years of the North West Mounted Police. There are records relating to Loyalists, the War of 1812, the Rebellions, the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War, many of which are featured in databases, research guides and virtual exhibitions. The records include muster rolls, military service files, unit war diaries, medal registers, photographic collections, documentary art and posters, as well as published sources.
Databases
- Canadian Historical Association Booklets
- ARCHIVED - Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
- ARCHIVED - Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War
- Courts-martial of the First World War
- Faces of War (Database)
- Medals, Honours and Awards
- ARCHIVED - North West Mounted Police (NWMP) - Personnel Records, 1873-1904
- Open Data from LAC
- ARCHIVED - Photographs: Canadian Nurses
- ARCHIVED - Photographs: War Records-Manufacturing (WRM) Series - National Film Board of Canada
- Second World War Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces War Dead
- Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
- Soldiers of the South African War (1899 - 1902)
- ARCHIVED - War Diaries of the First World War
Research Aids
- Avro Arrow (CF-105) - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- ARCHIVED - The Battle of Passchendaele
- Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience
- ARCHIVED - From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History
- Genealogy and Family History. What to Search: Land
- Genealogy and Family History. What to Search: Military
- Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Halifax Explosion - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Internment Camps in Canada during the First and Second World Wars - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Lest We Forget
- Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Rideau Canal - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- South African War - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The War of 1812 at Library and Archives Canada
Virtual Exhibitions
- ARCHIVED - The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
- ARCHIVED - The Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters
- ARCHIVED - Canada and the First World War
- ARCHIVED - The Canadian State: Documents and Dialogue
- Canadian War Artists (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
- ARCHIVED - Faces of War
- ARCHIVED - Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
- ARCHIVED - Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War
- ARCHIVED - Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918
- ARCHIVED - Posters and Broadsides
- ARCHIVED - Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film
- Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945 (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Virtual Silver Screen
- ARCHIVED - "Without Fear, Favour or Affection" The Men of the North West Mounted Police
