Canadian Military History Gateway
Subject > Politics and Society > War Art, Literature and Music > Fiction, Poetry and Drama
Poem "Death of Captain Vicars" by Victorian-era poet Harriett Annie Wilkins.
Library and Archives Canada
Repertoire of resources pertaining to John McCrae, a doctor, teacher, and poet who served in both the South African War and the First World War. His famous poem "In Flanders Fields" can also be found here.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Octave Crémazie pens a poem using old French-Canadian soldier to personify the hopes and wishes of all French-Canadians at the time of the return of the French navy to Quebec City in 1855. Emperor Napoleon III was renewing commercial relations between Canada and France.
Two poems composed by Pte. Frank Walker, a stretcher bearer serving with the Canadian Field Ambulance in Belgium.
Composer introduces musical piece about the horrors of nuclear fears.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
This table of contents provides links to a number of personal written accounts of life and battle on the Western Front.
A list of works of literature, mainly English, pertaining to the War of 1812 with accompanying notes and commentary. Several French works listed. Part of the National Library website "From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History."
A bibliography of Canadian literature inspired by the First World War.
Humourist Max Ferguson satirizes nuclear civil defence and suggests funny ideas for coping with the nuclear threat.
A listing of resources consisting of poems and songs of Canadians in battle, taken from a section of "From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History."