Resource Materials

The links in this section will be of particular interest to educators, and those planning activities and events.

Learning Tools

• The Memory Project
• Great Questions of Canada
• Ontario History Quest , part of the Toronto Public Library's Virtual Reference Library.
• Royal Canadian Legion - Teacher’s Guide
• Canadian Museum of Civilization - Educator and Student Resources
• Juno Beach Centre - Interactive Centre
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Education

Contents

• Introduction
• Ontario's Celebration
• Year of the Veteran
• Canada and the Second World War
• Ways to Remember
• Links
• Acknowledgements

Film

• National Film Board of Canada
• CBC Digital Archives
  • D-Day: CBC Radio at Operation Overlord
  • 1939-1945: A Soldier’s War
  • On Every Front: Canadian Women in the Second World War
  • Royal 22 Regiment: Canada’s Fighting ‘Van Doos

Videos

• War Amputees of Canada
  • A War of Their Own
  • The Western Front
  • Day: The Story of the Canadian Assault Troops
  • Canadians in Normandy
  • Normandy 1944: A Musical Tribute
  • Operation Charnwood
  • Take No Prisoners
  • Canadians in Normandy
• History Television
  • War Brides: From Romance to Reality
  • Unlucky Lady: The Sinking of H.M.C.S Athabaskan.
  • Love and Duty: Canadian Red Cross Women in WWll.
  • Warriors of the Night, Canadian Bomber Command actions in WW11

Posters

• Canada’s D-Day/Normandy 60th Anniversary Poster
• Remembrance Day Posters 1982-2006
• Canada’s The Italian Campaign 60th Anniversary Poster

Photographs

• The Memory Project Digital Archive
• Canadian Heritage Gallery
• Canadian Forces Combat Camera

History:

Normandy

• The Battle of Normandy
• Normandie Mémoire
• D-Day : Normandie 1944

Holocaust

• Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
• The John and Molly Pollock Holocaust Collection - a special collection of the Learning and Resource Centres at Centennial College
• Museum of Tolerance
• Holocaust Timeline 1933-1945
• Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
• Holocaust Centre of Toronto

Second Word War

• Second World War Experience Centre>
• Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War
• Canadian War Museum

Heritage

Canada

• Directorate of History and Heritage
• Canadian Heritage
• Heritage Canada Foundation
• Canadian Conservation Institute
• Canadian Heritage Information Network
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Ontario

• Heritage Ontario, Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture
• Ontario Heritage Foundation
• Ontario Genealogy Society
• Ontario Historical Society
• Multicultural History Society of Ontario

Archives

• Archives of Ontario
• The Memory Project Digital Archive
• Library and Archives Canada
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Archives at The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies :
  • Canadian World War II Air Photo Collection
  • "No Price Too High" Archive: items collected as the series was researched and developed. It includes originals or copies of written materials, mostly contributed by individuals from across Canada and around the world, as well as photographic records.
  • Shephard Military Operational Research Archive

Museums

• Ontario Museum Association
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian War Museum
• Juno Beach Centre
• Canadian War Plane Heritage Museum
• National Air Force Museum of Canada
• Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum
• Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
• Virtual Museum of Canada

Publications

• Library and Archives Canada
• Government of Canada, Veterans Affairs
  • Valour at Sea: Canada’s Merchant Navy
  • Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields
  • Juno Beach - Canada in World War II
  • Jason and the Homefront
• The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
  • Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy.
  • The Canadian Battlefields in Normandy: A Visitors Guide
  • No Price Too High.
  • Leading From the Front: The War Memoirs of Harry Pope
• History Television
  • Oxford Companion to the Second World War

Disclaimer:

Ontario Remembers is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed therein. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that all of these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of the linked sites.