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The Great War.ca: Links of Interest |
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| The Canadian Virtual War Memorial | A great place to search records and grave sites. |
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| The Canadian War Museum's Page for Veteran's Records | |||||||
| Canada's
Military Heritage: The War Amps
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Great for information and source material. |
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| Canada's War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Maple Leaf Legacy Project | A very ambitious but worthy project to photograph the headstones of Canada's war dead. Perhaps you could contribute some time for this endeavour? |
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| Canada's National Archives for WW I | |||||||
| Canada's Military Heritage Page |
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| Major and Mrs. Holts Battlefield Guide to the Somme | |||||||
| The Regimental Warpath | Great for research |
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| Canada's Military Heritage | |||||||
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| Kingshead Tours | Battlefield tours undertaken in Land Rover County Station Wagons, taking you to First and Second World War cemeteries and memorials, as well as visiting battlefield sites. | ||||||
| Salient Tours |
Twice daily Battlefield Tours at Ypres, the Somme
and now, the D-Day beaches of Normandy. |
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| Over the Top Tours | Organized tours based out of Ieper and will also tour Vimy Ridge. |
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| ANGLIA Battlefield Tours | |||||||
| Canada's W.W.I National Archive | |||||||
| The Commonwealth War Grave Commission | A very useful site for those trying to locate relatives buried in Europe. Maps #'s 51,52 and 53 showing all the CWGC cemeteries in northern France and Belgium are available at the Vimy Memorial and through the Commission. | ||||||
| Battlefield Tours | |||||||
| The Vimy Ridge Attack | |||||||
| The War Gunner | An interesting site by Andrew Allanson-Parsons containing pictures scanned from a booklet acquired in 1940 by his grandfather, John Parsons, a gunner and cook during the Second World War. | ||||||
| Panoramic View of War Cemeteries | |||||||
| War Research Society | Battlefield, memorial, pilgrimage & heritage tours | ||||||
| Bartletts Battlefield Journeys | |||||||
| Simon Farr’s Ypres Home Page | A great site if you are planning to visit Ypres. | ||||||
| WW1Cemeteries.com | contains over 1300 images of the cemeteries and memorials of the Great War |
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| Canadian Letters, Diaries and Photo's from WW I | |||||||
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CANADA in KHAKI: War memorials |
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| Unfortunate Region | A great site for cemetery information and locations. |
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| dgharmer.com | A site containing links to many different utilities & sites of interest | ||||||
| For Canadian University Students interested in becoming guides at Vimy or Beaumont-Hamel | |||||||
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| Canadian Air Aces and Heroes | |||||||
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Area Bed & Breakfasts |
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| Hortensia B&B |
Ideally near the centre of Ypres with 6 spacious rooms, all with shower & toilet en-suite and T.V. An easy walking distance to the Menin Gate’s “Last Post” and to the Market Place (In Flanders Fields Museum, a nice walk home after dinner). A 1 minute walk to the Lille Gate and the Ramparts. I have stayed here and will do so again! |
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| Ieper (Ypres) B&B | a 10 minute walk to the Menin Gate | ||||||
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An English Run B&B/Tea Room situated at Brandhoek, near Ypres Belgium. I understand you can be picked up from Ypres or Poperinge train stations and there can be tours provided. A packed lunch provided for extra cost. You can also rent a bicycle if you wish. |
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To obtain military records of First World War veterans, Before ordering, you should search the data base at
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem&CFID=&CFTOKEN=
to obtain the regimental number and file location.* last updated: June 2009
Students interested in working as Guides at both Vimy and Beaumont-Hamel
should investigate this Veterans' Affairs Page.
and a special thank you to the Department of Veterans' Affairs, Canada
for including this web site with a link.