Useful Links
Veterans Affairs Canada
The Vimy Memorial is managed by Veterans Affairs Canada. To take a virtual tour of the memorial, go to http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=Memorials/ww1mem/vimy/expvimy/splash.
To research the registry of information about the graves and memorials of more than 116,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served valiantly and gave their lives for their country,
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem
The Canadian Military History Gateway
The Gateway is a free, bilingual online portal providing authoritative and in-depth information on Canada's military history and heritage, from earliest times to current day. The Gateway works much like a virtual library by providing access to web sites and digitized resources of federal government departments, museums, libraries, archives as well as other heritage organizations. Users can easily explore an array of documents by gaining instant access to images, video, audio and interactive resources about Canada's military history. For example, to view a selection of First World War films available from the National Film Board,, go to http://www.nfb.ca/film/13.
Our Histories Section where you will find the commemorative history Canada and The Battle Of Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917 and the Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919.
The National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials to find memorials in your community where names of men killed in the war may be listed.
The Victoria Cross Gallery is another interesting section of the site where you will find a short biography of the recipient and the citation from the London Gazette.
The Library of Archives Canada
Over 600,000 men and women enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918) as soldiers, nurses and chaplains. The CEF database is an index to those service files, which are held by Library and Archives Canada, to find diaries and military collections of soldiershttp://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php and War Diaries http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html
Canadian Letters and Images Project
Read soldiers letters at http://canadianletters.ca/aboutus.php
Canadian War Museum