LibGuides: Grade 10: Canadian History Since World War I (CHC2D and CHC2P): Communities, Conflict, and Cooperation

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World War I

The First World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada
firstworldwar.com: a multimedia history of World War One
Includes the global causes
Canada and the First World War - Canadian War Museum
Five major Canadian battles of the First World War (with video)
Battle of 2nd Ypres
Battle of Vimy Ridge
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Amiens
Canada's FWW Battles: The Vimy Foundation
Battles of the Somme and Beaumont-Hamel
Veterans Affairs Canada
Canada's Total War in WWI
Canada: A People's History - Ordeal by Fire
Canada's History: Canada's Great War Album
An Archival Look at World War I: Queen's University Archives
Maclean's: In the Great War, 1916 marked the point of no return The first in a series of why 1916 was such an interesting year. Brian Bethune 26 January 2016
British WWI Trench Maps National Library of Scotland
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War
Taking you back to 1914: Relive the start of the First World War
Vimy Foundation: First World War in Colour

Classroom guide on ‘Photography in the First World War‘
A guide for studying a colourize series of rarely seen images from the Great War. Includes discussion questions and activities.

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The Children's War
Canadian Homefront: Queen's University Archives
Canadian Sheet Music of the First World War - Library and Archives Canada
Article written by Barbara Norman, Music Division, Library and Archives Canada. Includes links to popular songs and sheet music from World War I.

Above are just a few of the articles available on the Veterans Affairs Canada First World War website Search for keyword "aboriginal soldiers"

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Native Soldiers Foreign Battlefields

Learn360 - Women of World War One
Videos depicting the roles women played in World War I
Canada Remembers Women on The Home Front
Women and the War: Queen's University Archives
Feminists on the Homefront: Canada's Great War Album

The Canada/Britain Relationship War Songs from the first half of 20th century McMaster University Archives
The First World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada History of Canada's Military participitation in World War I
Treaty of Versailles The Canadian Encyclopedia What was the significance of Canada's separate signing of this treaty.
The Halibut Treaty The Canadian Encyclopedia "The Halibut Treaty was signed on 2 Mar 1923. It is a Canadian-American agreement concerning fishing rights in the North Pacific Ocean, and the first treaty independently negotiated and signed by the Canadian government." [quoted from the website]
The Chanak Affair The Canadian Encyclopedia "The 1922 Chanak Affair was Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's first major foreign policy test." [quoted from website]
Imperial Conferences Oxford Reference

The Conscription Crisis CBC: Canada - A People's History
Conscription, 1917 Canadian War Museum
Ontario Schools Question and Regulation 17 The Canadian Encyclopedia
Henri Bourassa's Nationalism versus Imperialism The Canadian Encyclopedia
Regulation 17 Canada A Country by Consent "Regulation 17 made English the official language of education and restricted French to the first two years of elementary school. In 1913 it was changed slightly to allow one hour of French teaching a day."[from website]