Canadian Veteran’s Online

By no means is this an exhaustive list of what is online; but it can give you a good start on what’s available. There is even more available in that good old nineteenth century format - the book! Libraries still remain a very important source for the researcher.

THE FENIAN RAIDS

Fenian Raids Timeline      
 http://www.lwmuseum.ca/page03/index.html

THE NORTHWEST REBELLION

List of Officers and Men killed and wounded   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-909.005.03-e.html
The Royal Canadian Dragoons
 http://www.dragoons.ca/


THE BOER WAR

Soldiers of the South African War (1899 - 1902)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/south-african-war/index-e.html

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Canadian Expeditionary Force - Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group
http://www.cefresearch.com/phpBB2/
Canadian Great War Project
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/
54th  Battalion CEF         
 http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/

Internet Archive(Archive.org) CEF nominal rolls
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=army%20list%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20subject%3A%22Nominal%20Rolls%22
Canadian Virtual War Memorial    http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem
Library and Archives Canada database      http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/db/cef/index.html
Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
The 21st Battalion CEF           
 http://21stbattalion.ca/page1.html
War Diaries of the First World War
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html
WarMuseum.ca - Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/intro_e.shtml

Veterans Affairs Canada
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem



BLOGS

Canadian War Brides Of The First World War
 http://ww1warbrides.blogspot.com/
CEF WW1 Soldier Blogs
http://cefww1soldiername.blogspot.com/
Soldiers of the 38th    
http://38thbattalion.blogspot.com/2009/11/corporal-harry-humphrey.html
War Poetry        
 http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2009/11/canadian-poetry-from-world-war-i.html

Veterans of Southwestern Ontario

This blog will look at the veterans of the wars in which Canada has been involved in since 1867 - the Fenian Raids, the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War. The  post 1952 to the present I will largely leave to others. I am as interested in the histories of these men and women, the units that they served in, in the context of Canadian history as I am in their family trees.

I am more of a historian than a genealogist although I am interested in genealogy as well. I will try to mix the two disciples were I can. Of course, I will not leave my own family out. Looking into my own family tree sparked the interest that I have in veterans as so many in my family have served.

Southwestern Ontario for the purposes of this blog includes the counties of Essex. Kent, Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford, Huron, Bruce, Brant, Grey, and Perth Counties.