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Goal 7: Learn about Canada military records.
Choices:
ALearn about Canadian military records.
- FamilySearch: Learn about Canada military records in these articles.
FS—Wiki: Canada Military Records
MH Wiki— Canadian Military Records
- Women: Find photographs and records for Canadian women serving in the military.
Women in the War: The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) - Loyalists: Learn about Loyalists who settled in Canada after the American Revolutionary War.
- Resources: Learn about more resources for Canadian military records.
Finding Your Military Ancestors in Canada
Military Records - Learn about Canadian military service files.
RT: In the Trenches: Military Service Files—19:52 - 2022
WWI and WWII
- WWI: Learn about WWI Canadian military records available online.
OT—Updated Canadian WWI Soldier Files - Here is a case study for using Canadian military records in WWI research.
A Métis soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917–1918 - WWII: Learn about records for Canadians involved in the WWII D-Day invasion.
A selection of records about D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, June 6 to August 30, 1944 - Find information about Canadian war brides on the Canadian War Brides website.
BExplore Canadian military records.
- Explore Canadian military resources on the
CanGenealogy site. - Explore the Canadian Military Project.
- Explore the Veterans Affairs Canada site for Canadian memorial records.
- Explore resources in the Canadian Great War Project site.
- Find records for fallen soldiers in the Canadian Fallen Heroes site.
- Explore the Casualty Forms and Story Vault sections of the Royal Air Force site for records of WWI casualties.
- Read wartime letters from ancestors on the Past Voices site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for military research. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
August Oswald enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. Use the "AC: WW1 Attestation Papers, 1914-1918" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- How old was August Oswald in this record?
- When was he born?
- What was his religious denomination?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "August" as the first name and "Oswald" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click View Record for August Oswald.
- Read the information in the center column.
- To see the religion information, click View Image.
- August was 18.
- He was born on 17 July 1896.
- He was Lutheran.
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
QUIKLinks
- AC: WWI Attestation Papers, 1914-1918
- AC: British Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900
- AC: Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1857-1922
- AC: British Army and Canadian Militia Muster Rolls and Pay Lists, 1795-1850
- AC: CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919
- AC: Certificates of Military Instruction, 1867-1932
- AC: Militia and Defence Forces Lists, 1832, 1863-1939
- AC: Registers of Prisoners of War, 1803-1815
- AC: War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
- AC: Canadian Civil Servants Lists, 1872-1900