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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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The
General Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Project |
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| Pond Farm |
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A great local site of interest for Canadians visiting the St Julian / Ieper area. | |||||
| 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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| Lest We Forget |
This
site contains many Links for those researching the Great War
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| Guide & Ride |
GUIDE and RIDE offers you the possibility to book a pre-arranged excursion, or create one of your own with professional driver / guide with deluxe sedan car or minibus up to 7 people ![]() |
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| 2Explore Tours |
Flanders Battlefield Tours |
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| Salient Tours |
Twice daily Battlefield Tours at Ypres, the Somme
and now, the D-Day beaches of Normandy. |
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| Bartletts Battlefield Journeys | |||||||
| Over the Top Tours | Organized tours based out of Ieper and will also tour Vimy Ridge. |
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| ANGLIA Battlefield Tours | |||||||
| Battlefield Tours |
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| 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. | ||||||
Mesothelioma Cancer Network |
A resource that is targeted towards many people that are serving or have served in the Air Force This resource is an extensive database of information for patients and their families to better understand the symptoms of mesothelioma, and the various aspects of diagnosis, treatment, as well as mesothelioma life expectancy. |
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| 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 | This is an amazing site offering 360 degree views of many war cemeteries. | ||||||
| War Research Society | Battlefield, memorial, pilgrimage & heritage tours | ||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Unfortunate Region | A great site for cemetery information and locations. |
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| Hugh Little and Barry Keighley composed a song to commemorate the fallen of The Great War The composition has been put to video utilizing original film footage of W.W. I | |||||||
| 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.
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.
* last updated: November 2011