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• 19th Canadian Machine Gun Company, CEF

  Page devoted to the 19th CMGC, which served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1918. An attempt to identify all members of the unit is being undertaken.

• Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Canadian Soldiers of World War I, 1914-1918

    Original source: Canada. Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918). Record Group 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4930 - 35. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

• Canada In Flanders by Sir Max Aitken, M.P.

  , The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. Includes an appendix listing of Personnel to whom Honours and Rewards were granted prior to 1916.

• Canada's Siberian Expedition

  Explore the forgotten history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (Siberia), which saw 4,200 soldiers travel from Canada's West Coast to Vladivostok, Russia, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. Includes a digital archive with 2,200 photographs and documents from veterans' families and public collections.

• Canadian Air Aces and Heroes - WWI, WWII and Korea

• Canadian Great War Project

  The largest fully searchable database of Canadians serving in the First World War, or other nationalities who served in the CEF. The site differs from others like the Libraries and Archive Canada sites, or the Canadian Virtual War Memoria by making all information, including birthplace or next of kin, available as part of the search criteria, making it very useful for genealogical research. There are currently over 70,000 entries, with more being added daily.The site includes many other features, including transcribed/searchable war diaries, book reviews, transcribed letters, images and statistics on Canada in the Great War.

• Canadians in Korea - Valour Remembered

• Catholics of Nova Scotia in World War 1

• EDGARS from Canada killed in WW1

  Details on members of the EDGAR family from Canada killed during the First World War.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• For King and Empire - Canads's Soldiers in the Great War

• Newfoundland and the Great War

• Nominal Roll of the 205th (Tiger) Battalion, CEF

  The 205th (Tiger) Battalion was organized and recruited in Hamilton, Ontario beginning in late February 1916. The site lists all soldiers known to have enlisted with this Battalion during the First World War.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Soldiers of the First World War — Canadian Expeditionary Force

  An index to the personnel files of over 600,000 soldiers that enlisted during the First World War. Copies of over 50,000 pages of Attestation papers have been scanned and are available online here.

• The Book of Remembrance - First World War

• The Canadian Great War Homepage

  Canada's Role in World War I, 1914 ~ 1918.

• The Great War : A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers

  A book by Christina K. Schaefer.

• The Regimental Rogue - Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War

  Article by Michael O'Leary.

• The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in The Great War 1914-1918

  A list of all known teachers from Ontario, Canada who served in the First World War; 851 names.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• The Western Front Association - Remembering 1914-1918

• The World War I Document Archive

  Assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).