Resources Relating to World War I

• “Don’t Worry, Keep Your Feet Warm” - The Spanish Flu in Ontario Flickr album

• Faces of World War I Flickr album

• Grade 10: A Diary of World War 1 [Word, PDF]

• Grade 10: ‘Don’t Worry, Keep Your Feet Warm:’ The Spanish Flu in Ontario (Word, PDF)

• Grade 10: Evaluating Wartime Posters: Were they Good Propaganda? [Word, PDF]

• Ontario '14-29 Flickr album

• Recruit, Fundraise, & Rally: Posters from the First and Second World Wars Flickr album

• Virtual Professional Development Sessions

• Virtual Workshops for Students

• Research Guide #212 - Newspaper Holdings of the Archives of Ontario s - [Word, PDF]

• Research Guide #226 - Militia and Military Records - [Word, PDF]

General

• Display – Special – Re: World War 1 (8 photographs) (Eaton's Archives photographic and documentary art subject files, F 229-308)

• World War 1 – Women (1 file of textual records) (part of the Military Records Collection, F 895)

• Eaton, John Craig (part of John Craig Eaton and Flora Eaton fonds F228)

• War Memorial Committee of Ontario

• Young Men’s Christian Association of Metropolitan Toronto fonds, F 796 (157 photos/prints)

• Military Records Collection, F 895 (7.5m of text)

• William Gregg Patterson Collection, F 926 (8 cm of text)

• William Dellow Fonds, F 696 (8cm of text)

• Military – World War 1 (part of the Andrew D. MacLean Family fonds, F 4566) (1 file of text and 10 photos)

• First World War Scrapbook (part of the Laidlaw Family fonds, F 230) (1 volume of text)

• Photograph Albums of the First World War (167 photos over 3 albums: C-224-8)

• Fort Henry Photographs, F 1405-31-7 (total of 637 images)

• Eldon, Frank Irving (part of Eldon Family fonds F 4597 – includes poems)

• Grier, Crawford, F 1108-2
  
  

Soldiers

• Atcherley, Charles Hedley (part of Atcheley-Thompson Family fonds F 4627)

• Gray Family, F 4383

• Turner, Edwin Stewart, F 1043

• M.O. Hammond literary correspondence, F 1075-10

• G.A. Farini’s World War I Files (part of Farini Collection F 1073)
  
  

Posters

• Victory Bonds and Loans C-233-2-1

• Canada Food Board C-233-2-2

• Red Cross C-233-2-3

• Recruitment C-233-2-4

• Canadian Patriotic Fund C-233-2-5

• Citizens’ Union Committee C-233-2-6

• General C-233-2-7

The Library collection has many books, pamphlets and other items about the war. Here are some suggestions for finding items in the Library catalogue, BIBLiON.

Search method: Subject Keyword

• World War, 1914-1918

Search method: Call Number

• “PAMPH 1914*” - This will find all pamphlets in the collection from 1914 (both war and non-war related). Use the same pattern for the other war years i.e. ”PAMPH 1915*”, etc.

• Military and Peacekeeping Resources at Library and Archives Canada

• Subject Guide to Peace Research at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario

• WWI Resources at CBC Digital Archives

• Archives of Manitoba WWI Blog