References to the personnel files of Canadian soldiers, nursing sisters and chaplains can be looked up in the Library and Archives Canada (LAC)Personnel Records of the First World Wardatabase. The digitized files can be accessed for free. Search screen of thePersonnel Records of the First World...
In this paper we highlight recent use of First World War data sets for non-First World War research questions as an example of the potential uses of big data for historians. Much of the new research considers aspects of living standards and health that are not accessible from other sources....
We are proud to report that Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has recently released a new data set on the Canadian Government Open Data portal as part of a First World War collaborative initiative with theMuninn Project. The project involved the partial transcription of the service records ofsol...
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nursing sisters and chaplains. The files for the First World War have been reviewed and contain an average of 50 to 70 pages. Later files however, such as the files for those who were killed-in-action during the Second World War, have not been reviewed by the Personnel Records Unit and...