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• Ancestry.com

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Search Military Records

• Books of Remembrance - Memorials - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada

  Contain the names of Canadians who fought in wars and died either during or after them.

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission

  Details of 1.7 million members of UK and Commonwealth forces who died in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and other wars, and 60,000 civilian casualties of WWII. Gives details of grave site, date of death, age, usually parents/widow's address.

• Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947

  Searchable database from the New Brunswick Provincial Archives.

• Far From Home - A study of the WW1 Canadian War Graves in the United Kingdom (Wayback Machine)

  Profiling the soldiers and photographing graves of all the 3,885 WW1 Canadians who served in Canadian regiments and are buried across Britain, including Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Locations and descriptions of cemeteries, churches, towns and cities are also highlighted.

• Findmypast - Canada- 1837 Rebellion Losses, Claimants For Damages, 1849 $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

• Government of Canada - Request military records and service files

• Last Post - Legion Magazine

  Since 1928, Legion Magazine has honoured those Canadians who have served their country by publishing in print short death notices for Royal Canadian Legion members with military backgrounds, Canadian veterans and Legion members with police service. With the advent of the Internet, we have created as a historical archive for your free use a Last Post database that goes back to 1982. It currently contains over 200,000 names but this number will rise as further entries are published in print and updated with the newest entries throughout the year. We will gradually go back further in time as our resources permit.

• Memorials - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada

  Memorials and war cemeteries in Canada and around the world that honour Canadians who have served.

• MHS Features: War Memorials in Manitoba

  The Manitoba Historical Society has developed a comprehensive inventory of monuments around Manitoba, including many relating to commemoration of our war dead.

• Soldiers of the First World War: 1914-1918 - Library and Archives Canada

  The digitization of 640,000 Canadian Expeditionary Force personnel service files is under way.

• The Asplin Military History & Scottish Horse in the Boer War; transcribed Army Death Indexes from 1901 to 1905 (exlusive of Boer War casualties); extracted details of name, number & unit of the cavalr

  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
  

• The Maple Leaf Legacy Project

  A project in memory of Canada's war dead.

• The War Graves Photographic Project

  Families able to get copies of war grave photographs from cemeteries all around the world. Site working in association with The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.