The Canadian War Museum brings the First World War to cyberspace

The Canadian War Museum brings the First World War to cyberspace

Ottawa, September 10, 2008 – The Canadian War Museum has launched a new website, Canada and the First World War, which makes the history of Canada in the First World War accessible to Canadians across the country and around the world. Part of the Canadian War Museum’s outreach program, this authoritative and stimulating resource features artifacts, photographs, art, letters and diaries held by the Museum. The unparalleled depth of Canadian subject matter includes a comprehensive range of topics and a wealth of educational resources.

Canada and the First World War offers access to approximately 700 interpreted artifacts, and more than 6,800 additional images, many never before available to the public. The site does not require flash or high speed access, and features a zoom tool that allows for viewing detail at an enhanced level.

This web-based exhibition complements Trench Life: A Survival Guide, a Canadian War Museum exhibition that explores the culture of Canada’s soldiers in the trenches, with an emphasis on how they used songs, poetry, theatre, rumours and superstitions to cope with and make sense of their war experience. Trench Life runs until April 2009, spanning the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War.

Canada and the First World War is an online exhibition created by the Canadian War Museum in collaboration with the Canada Culture Online initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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