Who Goes There? Canadian Forestry Corps in Jedburgh
Bruce MacDonald has a mystery on his hands and he would like your help identifying this soldier from the Canadian Forestry Corps. There is reason to believe that the soldier […]
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Improvements to Viewing Canadian War Diaries at LAC
In January Library and Archives Canada made improvements to their Archives Search and Image Search tools with an eye to enhancing the user experience. These will be of immediate benefit to those […]
The British Colonist adds 30 years of digitized newspapers
The British Colonist Online Edition is a wonderful and free resource for researchers and family historians. I wrote about the website in December 2013, shortly after it was expanded to […]
Doing Their Bit: Sarah Teesdale
In the second instalment of my “Doing Their Bit” series I’m highlighting the work of Sarah Teesdale, a volunteer researcher at the Alford Manor House Museum in Lincolnshire. Sarah’s passion for history […]
Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Note: this is a significant update to my Nominal Rolls article from January 2014. Below you’ll find links to nearly 400 Nominal Rolls currently online at Library and Archives Canada! A Nominal […]
Update: CEF Service File Estimate for April 2016
This is the second update to My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized article posted last December. I’m revisiting the project every other month to see if […]
Reunited: 1915 Sgt. Diplock postcard goes home (again)
In December I published an article on a 1915 Christmas card written by Sgt. Thomas Diplock to his future wife Gwen while he was a Prisoner of War in Giessen, Germany. Thomas was […]
Vimy Day: Remembering Private Thomas Shearman
On April 12, 1917, a 21-year old Rhodes scholar candidate from British Columbia lay injured in a German trench on Vimy Ridge with gunshot wounds to his side, arm and leg. He […]
Doing Their Bit: Stephanie Ann Warner
Today marks the launch of a new series of articles entitled Doing Their Bit. Each article focuses on a blogger, writer or volunteer who shares their research, stories and passion for remembering and […]
Canadian Letters and Images Project helps share my grandfather’s WWI story — Stephanie Ann Warner
Stephanie Ann Warner’s latest blog article describes her recent visit to the Canadian Letters and Images Project at Vancouver Island University where Stephen Davies and his team digitized over 250 postcards, photos and personal items and made them available online. Stephanie’s article provides a great overview of this valuable Canadian Military History resource and I […]
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