Archives
Guides & Resources
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum and Archives have a vast database and records of Canadians who fought, and fell, during Canada’s wars. Here are some useful guides and resources for conducting research on Canada’s bravest.
Guide: research a soldier
Library: Our collection
The Fallen: Comprehensive List
Other Resources
The Vimy Foundation has partnered with the National Film Board of Canada to create the First World War in Colour short film featuring colourized First World War footage.
The Canadian War Museum’s Research and Collections site.
National Defence/Canadian Armed Forces Directorate of History and Heritage’s Canadian military history site.
Veterans Affairs Canada Remembrance – History site.
Books
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Seeing It Through
Letters, diaries and memoirs by soldiers of the 8th, 27th, 43rd, 44th and 78th Manitoba Battalions.
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Pork, Beans & Hard Tack
Memoirs, diaries & letters from the men of Winnipeg’s 90th Battalion of Rifles, 1885 by Ian Stewart
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Voices Of War
Voices of War: Royal Winnipeg Rifles 1944-1945
By Ian Stewart