Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day: An Essential Resource Guide for Media

This web page illustrates, through our collections, the many roles that Canadian men and women played during the First World War, and the defining mark that the war left on our society.
Consult Canada and the First World War.

This web page tells how to access military service files and features virtual exhibitions, Flickr albums and official histories of the Second World War.
Consult Canada and the Second World War.

From the start of the First World War, Canadian Expeditionary Force units were required to maintain a daily account of their “Actions in the Field”—commonly referred to as a “War Diary.” This database contains the digitized war diaries of Canadian Expeditionary Force infantry, artillery and cavalry units, brigades, divisions, and corps commands, as well as of support units, such as railway and forestry troops.
Consult War diaries of the First World War.

This online memorial features the stories of 100 people who personally experienced the First World War. All of the stories are biographical in nature and compiled largely from original military records, photographs, census records and other historical materials held at Library and Archives Canada.
Consult 100 Stories: Canadians in the First World War.

In 2013, we committed to digitizing all of the Canadian Expeditionary Force service files by the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Mission accomplished! After removing pins, clips, staples and adhesive, we were able to digitize all 622,290 files.
Consult Personnel records of the First World War.

Co-Lab, LAC's collaboration tool, is an opportunity for citizens to help make our digital collection more accessible and usable for all Canadians. Invite your audience to take the challenge to transcribe, translate, tag and/or describe these military records. They don't have to be experts! The more people contribute, the easier it is to find archival materials with our Collection Search tool.
Consult Military-related Co-Lab challenges.

These challenges relate to our military heritage:

• War diaries of the First World War: No. 2 Construction Battalion
• Molly Lamb Bobak
• Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War
• War diaries of the First World War: 1st Canadian Division
• Japanese Canadians: Second World War
• The call to duty: Canada's nursing sisters
• Correspondence between Sir Robert Borden and Sir Sam Hughes
• Women in the War
• First World War posters