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Military Records - Saskatchewan
Online
- Ancestry and FamilySearch.org include searchable military records in their databases.
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Books of Remembrance search page
- Soldiers of the First World War: Digital images of war diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, searchable by unit name and date
- Canadian Expeditionary Force records: searchable database.
- Library & Archives Canada: Military Records
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission: A site that honours the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars,
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Royal Canadian Armored Corps Battle Honors
- Canadian Military Heritage Project
Microfilm
See Section 9 of the library’s Canadian Family History Resources: A Guide to the Materials Held at Cloverdale Library which describes Canadian military records on microfilm available at the library.
For an alphabetical listing of Canadian participants in the South African War or Boer War, check the library shelves for this book:
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. 1999. Index to Canadian Service Records of the South African War (1899-1902) held at the National Archives of Canada. Ottawa: British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. Library call number GEN 929.371 IND 1999
Another example:
Wright, Glen T. Canadians at War 1914 – 1919: A Research Guide to War Service Records. 2010. Library call number: GEN 940.40971 WRI 2010