Wartime Canada

Learn more about Canada’s experience during the world wars by exploring this online archive of visual culture. Wartime Canada features images, advertisements, music scores, cartoons, and many other documents that provide insight into how Canadians lived their lives during wartime. The items are organized into different categories (like fighting, eating, and working) and accompanied by short text that describes the item, while contextualizing it within these larger themes.

Teachers will find a number of lesson plans and handouts that have been developed to address curriculum expectations. This material covers four themes (War Effort, Government and Economy, Identity & Culture, and Society), with a fifth (Historical Inquiry) that gives students practice at analyzing and interpreting the primary source material.

Visit the archive at WarTimeCanada.ca, and follow them on Twitter @WartimeCA.