Markham: Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget
November 11
On November 11th, Canadians all across the country will gather at war memorials in some 2,000 cities, towns and villages. Here we will stand with our heads bowed and poppies on our breasts. During the two minutes of silence we will pause to remember the more than 100,000 brave Canadians who were killed during times of war. Each person will remember in his or her own way. Veterans may think of the comrades they left behind. Husbands and wives may think of the long wait for their 
spouses who went off to war and never returned. Parents may think of children who were so young when they left home for the very last time. These young men and women understood that enlistment in the Service would involve significant threat to life and limb, and yet they joined. Although the reasons for volunteering were varied, in almost every case there was some feeling and concern for the future, for the security of our country and for the preservation our way of life. They fought bravely, they suffered tremendously and they witnessed unspeakable horrors. For those of us who have not been personally affected by war, we must pause and reflect upon the great sacrifice that has been made so that we may enjoy the peace and freedom that we so often take for granted. Click here to view names on the Cenotaph.
Flanders Poppies Lt.-Colonel John McCrae
For 85 years the Flanders Poppy has been the traditional symbol of Remembrance – remembrance for over 100,000 Canadian war dead as well as those of the Commonwealth and Allied countries. To learn more about the Poppy and Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, please follow the links below:
Veterans Affairs Canada: Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
Veterans Affairs Canada: John McCrae Honoured
Royal Canadian Legion
Library Resources
Children's Material
Desperate Glory: the Story of World War I / by John Wilson
Invasion: the Story of D-Day / by Bruce Bliven
On Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Heroes / by Hugh Brewster
Remembrance Day / by Jill Foran
Remembering: the Story of a Soldier / by Virginia Mayo
Adult Material
Canada in WWI
Far From Home: Canadians in the First World War / by Bill Freeman & Richard Nielsen
When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War / by Desmond Morton
The Canadians on the Somme, September to November 1916 / by N.M. Christie
The Great War As I Saw It / by Frederick George Scott
Canada and the Two World Wars / by Jack Granatstein and Desmond Morton
Marching As To War: Canada's Turbulent Years / by Pierre Berton
Canada and the Great War: Western Front Association Papers / Briton C. Busch - editor
The Battle of the Somme: the Heroism and Horror of War / by Martin Gilbert
A Poppy is to Remember / by Heather Paterson & Ron Lightburn
Charlie Wilcox / by Sharon E. McKay
Canada in WWII
No Price Too High: Canadians and the Second World War / by Terry Copp & Richard Nielsen
Days of Victory: Canadians Remember: 1939-1945 / by Ted Barris
Voices of a War Remembered: an Oral History of Canadians in World War Two / by Bill McNeil
Liberation: the Canadians in Europe / by Bill McAndrew
Faces of War: a Collection / by Dave Brown
Dieppe 1942: Prelude to D-Day / by Ken Ford
Juno Beach: Canada in World War II / by Pierre B. Landry
Maple Leaf against the Axis: Canada's Second World War / by David Jay Bercuson
Air Force & Navy
All the Fine Young Eagles: in the Cockpit with Canada's Second World War Fighter Pilots / by David L. Bashow
Spitfire: The Canadians / by Robert Bracken
Flying Under Fire: Canadian Fliers Recall the Second World War / William J. Wheeler (editor)
Corvettes Canada: Convoy Veterans of WWII Tell their True Stories / by Mac Johnston
In Peril on the Sea: the Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic / by Donald E. Graves
The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-2002 / by Ken Macpherson & Ron Barrie
The Battle of the Atlantic: the Royal Canadian Navy's Greatest Campaign, 1939-1945 / by Roger Sarty
Canadian World War Fiction
Three Day Road / by Joseph Boyden
La Guerre, Yes Sir! / by Roch Carrier
A Place of Safety / by Natasha Cooper
Down the Coaltown Road / by Sheldon Currie
Famous Last Words / by Timothy Findley
You Went Away / by Timothy Findley
Three Views of Crystal Water / by Katherine Govier
A Gradual Ruin / by Robert Hilles
Brothers Far from Home: the World War I Diary of Eliza Bates / by Jean Little
Barometer Rising / by Hugh MacLennan
Downhill Chance / by Donna Morrissey
The English Patient / by Michael Ondaatje
The Electrical Field / by Kerri Sakomoto
One Hundred Million Hearts / by Kerri Sakamoto
The Stone Carvers / by Jane Urquhart
DVDs
Lest We Forget
Canada Remembers: Remembering the Heroes of WWII
Secrets of War. WWII Battle Set
John McCrae’s War: In Flanders Field
BBC History of World War II: the 10 Definitive BBC Series that Have Shaped Our Understanding of WWII
Websites
Canadian Letters and Images Project
Canvas of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum: 1914-1918, 1934-1945
Canada and peacekeeping / Le Canada et le maintien de la paix
An archival look at World War I: archival resources for teachers
Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
A Sketch Account of Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military
Books of Remembrance / Les Livres du Souvenir
Canadian military history gateway / Passerelle pour l'histoire militaire canadienne
UNAC: The Canadian Contribution to United Nations Peacekeeping
Department of Defense: Canada and Peackeeping
Regimental Number List of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (World War I)
Canadian Military Heritage Project: World War I
Canadian War Artists / Artistes de guerre canadiens
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
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