This page provides links to digitized reference books relating to Canada in the First World War. They include “official” publications issued or commissioned by the Canadian government as well as works summarizing Canada’s role during the conflict. They are ordered alphabetically by title.

All of the links but one are to digitized resources on the Internet Archive. The exception is the Official Histories link to the National Defence and Canadian Forces website which hosts nearly two dozen pdfs detailing Canada’s involvement in the First, Second and Korean wars. They include the official histories by G.W.L. Nicholson, C.P. Stacey and A.F. Duguid.

• A Khaki University for Canadian Soliders Overseas (1917)
• Annals of Valour: Empire Day May 23, 1919 published by the Ontario Department of Education (1919)
• Art and War: Canadian War Memorials published for the Canadian War Records Office (1919?)
• Canada at War: A Record of Heroism and Achievement 1914-1918 by J. Castell Hopkins (1919)
• Canada’s Day of Glory by F.A. McKenzie (1918)
• Canada’s Effort by Gaston Deschamps (1917)
• Canada’s Sons and Great Britain in the World War by Col. George G. Naismith (1919)
• Canada’s Sons in the World War: Volume II by Col. George G. Naismith (1919)
• Canada’s Triumph published by the Canadian War Records Office (1918)
• Canada in Khaki No. 2 published for the Canadian War Records Office (1916?)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume I: Military History of Canada 1608-1914 (1918)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume II: Days of Preparation (1918)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume III: Guarding the Channel Ports (1918)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume IV: The Turn of the Tide (1918)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume V: The Triumph of the Allies (1918)
• Canada in the Great World War Volume VI: Special Services Heroic Deed Etc. (1918)
• Canadian Annual Review War Series, The: 1914 Illustrated by J. Castell Hopkins (1918)
• Canadian Annual Review War Series, The: 1916 Illustrated by J. Castell Hopkins (1918)
• Canadian Annual Review War Series, The: 1917 Illustrated by J. Castell Hopkins (1918)
• Canadian Front in France and Flanders, The by R.F.L. Sheldon-Williams M.M. by Christopher West (1920)
• Canadians in France 1915-1918, The by Captain Harwood Steele M.C. (1920)
• Captain Papineau’s letter to M. Henri Bourassa by Capt. Talbot M. Papineau (1917)
• Defence of Canada, The: In the Light of Canadian History (1914)
• Disruption of Canada, The by John S. Ewart K.C. (1917?)
• Duty of Canada at the Present Hour, The by Henri Bourassa (1914-1915)
• England, Canada and the Great War by Lt-Col L.G. Desjardins (1918)
• For the Defence of Canada by The Military Service Council (1917)
• Officials Histories published by National Defence and the Canadian Forces (links to over 20 downloadable pdfs)
• Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-1919: The Medical Services by Sir Andrew MacPhail (1925)
• People’s War Book, The: History, Cyclopaedia and Chronology of the Great World War (1920)
• Pictorial History of the Great War: Canada’s Valorous Achievements by S.J. Duncan-Clark & Prof. W.S. Wallace (1919)
• Returned Soldiers: Proceedings of the Special Committee… (1917)
• The war and its influences upon Canada : address delivered by the late Major Talbot Papineau, M.C. (1920)
• Thirty Canadian V. C s. : 23rd April 1915 to 30th March 1918 by the Canadian War Records Office (1918?)
• Through the Hindenburg Line by F.A. McKenzie (1918)
• Two years of war : as viewed from Ottawa by The Civilian (1916)
• War and the Future, The by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Borden (1917)