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Canadians at War – Websites

Creative Writing, Art, Literature Review

1 Hour Photo by Tetsuro Shigematsu, foreword by the family of Midge and Karl Ayukawa, introduction by Naomi Yamamoto, afterword by Joy Kogawa, 2018
Call Number: PS 8637 H522 A63 2018
Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War by Matthew Barrett & Robert C. Engen, 2022
Call Number: D 545 L45 B37 2022
Canadian War Posters by Marc Choko, 1994
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Poetry of the First World War by Tim Kendall, 2013
Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977-2007 by Sherrill Grace, 2014

Feature Films

In Remembrance

Canadian Nursing Sisters: The Forgotten Heroes by William H. Graham, 2020
Call Number: D 629 C2 G73 2020
Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace by J.L. Granatstein, 2021
Call Number: UA 600 G6597 2021
The Stories Were Not Told by Sandra Semchuk,2018
E-book
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard, 2012
Print
Reluctant Warriors: Canadian conscripts and the Great Wa by Patrick M. Dennis, 2017
Call Number: D 547 C2 D46 2017
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard, 2012
Print
Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War by Debbie Marshall; Foreword by Anna Maria Tremonti, 2017
E-book
The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar by Janice Gross Stein & Eugene Lang, 2007
Print
No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience by Bohdan S. Kordan, 2016
E-book
The Fight for History: 75 years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Tim Cook, 2020
Call Number: D 768.15 C664 2020

National Film Board

Film still from

The Apology

Directed by Tiffany Hsiung
National Film Board
2016

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Good Morning Kandahar

Directed by Ariel Nasr
National Film Board
2008

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Unwanted Soldiers

Directed by Jari Osborne
National Film Board
1999

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Forgotten Warriors

Directed by Loretta Todd
National Film Board
1997

And We Knew How to Dance

Directed by Maureen Judge
National Film Board
1994

Film still from

Front Lines

Director by Claude Guilmain
National Film Board
2008

Film Still from

John McCrae's War

Directed by Robert Duncan
National Film Board
1998

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Paris 1919

Direct by Paul Cowan
National Film Board
2008

Film Still from

I'm OK

Written & Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs
National Film Board
2018

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The Van Doos, 100 Years with the Royal 22e Régiment

Directed by Claude Guilmain
National Film Board
2014

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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

Directed by Brian McKenna
National Film Board
1992

Memoirs

Code Talker Stories by Laura Tohe, 2012
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The Emperor's Orphans by Sally Ito, 2018
Call Number: PS 8567 T63 Z46 2018
From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk, 2016
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This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War by Linda J. Quiney, 2017
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Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan by Stephen Saideman, 2016
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In Their Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War by Anthony Richards, 2016
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Forgiveness: A Gift from my Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto, 2015
Call Number: D 768.155 C35 S25 2015

Historical Fiction – Stories of War

Divided Loyalties: Stories

By Nilofar Shidmehr

Deep River Night

By Patrick Lane

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys

All Quiet on the Western Front

By Erich Maria Remarque
Translated by A.W. Wheen

Book cover of Life Class

Life Class

By Pat Barker

Book cover of The English Patient

The English Patient

By Michael Ondaatje

A Very Long Engagement

By Sabastien Japrisot
Translated by Linda Cloverdale

Obasan

By Joy Kogawa

A Farewell to Arms

By Ernest Hemingway

The Razor's Edge

By W. Somerset Maugham