Curated OER
Life In the Trenches
In this wartime worksheet, students read a one page text about soldiers life while fighting in the trenches. Included are disturbing pictures and graphic quotations from former soldiers. There are no questions.
First World War
Life in the Trenches
An engrossing narrative of the horrid day to day life amid rats and frogs and uncertainty in the trenches of World War I.
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Valour Road
A dramatization which explains the reaction of three young men for Winnipeg's Pine Street to World War I.
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Vimy Ridge
This resourec provides a video about Vimy Ridge.
Veterans Affairs Canada
Veterans Affairs Canada: 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
This series of learning activities is about the history of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and other First World War events. View the construction of the Vimy Memorial and explore Vimy today.
Curated OER
Canadian in a Trench, Knocked to His Knees by a Nearby Shell Blast, 1916
Canadian trench warfare photo.
Curated OER
Canadians, 22nd Infantry Battalion, July 1916
View a photo of Canadians from the 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Curated OER
Photograph of Two Canadians Resting in Their Funk Holes on the Front Line, 1917
Canadian trench warfare photo.