Military Records - Alberta
Online
- Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch.org include searchable military records in their databases.
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- 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
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Royal Canadian Armored Corps Battle Honors
- Canadian Military Heritage Project
- Alberta and the Great War; A guide to First World War records at the Provincial Archives of Alberta
Microfilm
See Section 9 of the library’s guide: Canadian Family History Resources which describes Canadian military records on microfilm available at the library.
When searching for military print items in our library catalogue use keywords such as “soldiers – Canada”, “soldiers - Canada - indexes”, or “soldiers -location- registers”. A sample from our collection here:
Wright, Glen T. Canadians at War 1914 – 1919: A Research Guide to War Service Records. Library call number: 940.40971 WRI 2010
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. Index to Canadian Service Records of the South African War (1899-1902) held at the National Archives of Canada. Library call number 929.371 IND 1999