Earlier this month I visited the Special Collections section of the University of Victoria Library where I had a first-hand look at their 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) fonds. While waiting for the items to […]
I’ve spent a lot of time recently immersed in trench journals, one of my favourite resources when researching soldiers from the First World War. Library and Archives Canada has a […]
This is the third update to My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized article posted last December. I was away last month and so it’s been three months […]
First World War Researchers take note: over 1300 issues of Maclean’s magazines are now online in the brand new Maclean’s Archive. The issues from 1914 through 1918 feature an interesting […]
One of the highlights of my recent trip to Ypres was a visit to In Flanders Fields Museum, located in the city’s beautifully reconstructed Cloth Hall. As the museum guidebook points out the setting is no […]
It was just over a week ago that I was walking and cycling through Flanders. I visited over 70 soldiers including the grave of Sgt. Edward Wesley Jackson who died on […]
I’m back in London after a memorable six day visit to Ypres. As I’ve mentioned before my main objective was to visit the graves of soldiers who had a connection to […]
I’ve just completed my third full day in Ypres and although it was my intention to blog every day I simply haven’t had the time or the energy to do […]
On Wednesday I made the journey from the north Norfolk coast to the city of Ypres. It took five trains and the better part of a day but I arrived on […]
On Vimy Day I published an article on Private Thomas Stinson A’Beckett Shearman, a 21-year University of British Columbia graduate who died at Huddersfield’s Royds Hall War Hospital on April 27, 1917 […]
