CGWP Archive
The CGWP Archive is an evolving collection. This section will initially be storage for the various sections and standalone pages from the original site that need a home here.
Over the next few weeks we will begin a curation process to logically locate each of these sections and pages. With this in mind you should not rely on any bookmarks you make to the archive section at this time.
Older content
The original site contained six major sections, aside from search and war diaries.
As time permits we will be adding most of the content to the new site at which point we will add links below.
Canada in the war
- Articles on the Great War
- The Bruce Report
- Canada and the Great War
- Canadian Army Medical Corps overview
- Canadian orders awards decorations and medals
- CEF rates of pay
- Demographics: composition of the CEF
- Enlistment statistics
- Famous Canadians
- Battle for Hill 70
- Kinmel Park mutiny
- Life on Salisbury Plain
- Links
- Memorials, researching monuments, and abbreviations
- The Ottawa Ten
- Rank
- Soldiers executed
- Timetable
- Maps
- Units of the CEF/Order of Battle
- Men and Women in the CEF
- Canadian Army Medical Corps (C.A.M.C)
- Nicholson Appendix C
- Orders, Awards, Decorations and Medals
- Abbreviations
Statistics
- Basic statistics: age at enlistment; age at death; height.
- Soldiers by Country of Birth
- Soldiers by Religion
- Soldiers by Age of Enlistment
- Soldiers by Age of Death
- Soldiers by Year of Enlistment
- Soldiers by Month (Quarter) of Death
- Soldiers by Occupation
- Soldiers by Province of Birth (Canadian born)
- Soldiers by Province of Enlistment
- Soldiers by Country of Birth (top 10)
- Enlistments by City
- Burials by Country
From the front
- Letter and newspaper search
- Letters
- News clippings
- John Cushnie collection
Memorials
- European cemeteries and memorials
- Canadian monuments
- The men that served
- Canadian nursing sisters
- Other online memorials
Rolls and awards
- Nominal rolls
- Rolls of honour
- Awards lists
- Award cross-reference
Images
- Soldier images
- General Great War images
Curation on the original content has already begun, and you will start to see more of it showing up very soon.
Search
The original site had several different search methods.
Original site searches
- Soldiers - General Search
- Soldiers by Regimental Number or Name
- Soldiers by Regiment/Battalion
- Soldiers Died by Regiment/Battalion
- Soldiers and Diaries
- Letters and Newspaper search
- Soldiers by Regimental Number Range
- Soldiers by Cemetery
- Awards and Decorations
- Soldiers executed
A number of these searches will be collected in to the current search page. For example, the functionality of the general; regimental number or name; and regimental searches are already incorporated in to the main search page.
Although searching the content of transcribed diary entries is not yet available you can use the Diary Viewer to browse the LAC images of virtually every regimental diary.
Other, more specialized searches will follow. Some will be interpretations of the original while others will be provided that will take searching to a new level. If you have any thoughts on specialized searches that you think would be valuable to the community please let us know.