Multimedia
Further resources from Toronto Public Library
- Browse our Toronto Library Pinterest board featuring WWI posters and our WWI and WWII posters from our Flickr account
- Read a WWI Toronto love story told in silk embroidered postcards
- Find out about the trench newspaper, The Wipers Times, and about the songs of WWI
- Read staff blog posts about some of our WWI vintage ephemera: airplane and military postcards, our WWI silk embroidered postcard collection or our WWI Canadian military posters
- Or read a more general blog post about Remembrance Day in Canada
- Listen to a podcast of a talk given at TPL's North York Central branch as part of the History Matters series. This talk, Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada’s Great War (59:13) by historian Robert Rutherdale, is published by Active History.
Further resources from other Torontonian or Ontarian institutions
- For King and Country: a project to transcribe war memorials in Toronto schools. The ongoing Ontario Genealogical Society project to transcribe the names of students, former students and teachers who volunteered for WWI and WWII.
- The Ontario Archives' Dear Sadie exhibit tells the love story of Harry Mason and his sweetheart, Sadie Arbuckle, as told through their prolific correspondence during WWI. Other virtual exhibits examine war artists from the First World War and the story of Ontario WWI veteran John Mould, told in his own words using his diaries.
- The City of Toronto Archives has digitised the WWI photo album of John Boyd, which documents the training the men received before shipping out to the Front.
Further resources from other Canadian institutions
- Library and Archives Canada's Lest we Forget project has digitised the service records of 100 men and women who served in WWI and 100 who served in WWII. LAC is also in the process of digitising records from the Canadian Expeditionary Force personnel service files for the First World War. New items are added every two weeks until the project is completed (estimated end date is 2016).
- Collections Canada maintains a database of War Diaries of the First World War, a record of a fighting unit's administration, operations and activities throughout the war.
- The Canadian Letters & Images project has digitised WWI material either from home or the battlefront, including photos, letters and diaries.
- The Canadian Military History Gateway provides access to detailed online reference books on Canadian wars and conflicts from pre-history to the present day, including a lot of information on WWI.
- The Canadian War Museum has an exhibit on Canada and the First World War.
- The federal Veterans' Affairs office provides information on and timelines for many of the wars in which Canada was involved, including the First World War
- Early Canadiana Online provides thousands of digitised WWI items from across Canada
- The Canadian War Museum has a Remembrance Day web page with information that includes topics on Armistice Day, John McCrae, and the poppy as a national symbol
Further resources from international institutions
- Europeana 1914-1918: Untold stories and official histories of WWI. Find stories, films and historical material from libraries, archives and individual European families.
- No Job for a Woman: The effects of war on women's lives during the 20th & 21st centuries. From the UK, this site includes a section on women and WWI.
- UK-based Centenary News is a not-for-profit social enterprise whose goal is to provide independent and international coverage on the centenary of WWI, including video, articles and other resources.
- The British Pathé offers archival newsreel footage of WWI that is free to view (but not to license for reuse on the Internet or other media).
- Mission centenaire 14-18 is a commemorative project from France. The « Découvrir le centenaire » features digital historical material from partner organisations and individual French families. Some information is also available in English and in German.