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Title: Fighting from the Home Front - Second World War- The Crucible
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode about the social and economic effects that the Second World War had on Canada. Discusses the War Measures Act invoked by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1939. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Second World War: Greetings from the Beaver Club
 
Type: Sound
Description: From London's Beaver Club, Canadian soldiers send short radio messages to loved ones at home.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Queen of the Hurricanes - Elsie MacGill - Second World War- Fighting f...
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis on television episode focusing on Elsie MacGill, one of Canada's top aeronautical engineers during the Second World War, who was in charge of designing machines that would produce Hawker Hurricane airplanes. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: The Slit Trench - Second World War
 
Type: Sound
Description: A wounded Canadian captain discusses the grim hours soldiers spend in shallow, muddy trenches.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: "Miserable, rotten, hopeless life" - Canadian Sailors - Second World W...
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode on the experiences of Canadian sailors as they face German U-boats on the high seas during the Second World War. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Women of the Second World War: 'Ten men for every girl'
 
Type: Sound
Description: During the Second World War, Halifax suddenly doubled in size when the port became a key hub for Allied naval forces and merchant shipping. Women who lived in or were stationed in the city at that time recall the pulse of activity and the influx of soldiers and sailors.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: 1939-1945 - A Soldier's War
 
Type: Document Sound
Description: From 1939 to 1945 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lived and died in lands far from home. CBC Radio was one of the few links friends and family in Canada had to their loved ones abroad. Through reports from the front, dramatizations and direct greetings from soldiers, CBC revealed what life on the battlefront was like.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Canada Goes to War - Second World War - Rise of the Fascists
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode on Canada's role during the Second World War. On September 10, 1939, Canada joined Britain and France in the war against Germany, but many questions remained regarding the extent of Canada's involvement in the war effort. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Women of the Second World War: Nurses face danger and death
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: In World War II, the Nursing Sisters of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps had the most difficult, dangerous and grisly jobs of all Canada's enlisted women. They were the ones who followed men into battle to tend their wounds, fight diseases, care for prisoners of war and help the thousands of injured civilians whose lives were destroyed along the way. In this clip from CBC Television's Women at War, three former nurses describe their harrowing experiences.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Breendonck - Inside a Nazi Concentration Camp
 
Type: Sound
Description: Matthew Halton reports from the Breendonck concentration camp in Belgium. He provides a powerful justification for the war as he describes the rituals of torture and the systematic killings.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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