There will be a number of stories and memories shared as #CanadaRemembers today.

Signal boosting a few more from the First World War that challenge the popular narrative of Canada’s military response (white, male) and are deserving of five minutes of your time.

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The No. 2 Construction Battalion, also known as the Black Battalion, was a segregated non-combatant unit, the first and only all-Black battalion in Canadian military history. More via @CdnEncyclopedia #CanadaRemembers #BlackLivesMatter

...2/6 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/no-2-construction-battalion

The Women’s Home Guard, which organized and drilled with the objective of defending Toronto from invasion. More via former Torontoist / now @DailyHiveTO #CanadaRemembers #HERstory

...3/6 https://torontoist.com/2017/03/historicist-womens-home-guard/

2,800+ women served as Nursing Sisters in Canadian Army Medical Corps as fully-enlisted officers with relative rank and equal pay to men, first among allied forces to do so. At least 58 were KIA. More via @CanWarMuseum
#CanadaRemembers #HERstory

...4/6 https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/people/in-uniform/nurses/

4,000+ First Nations soldiers fought for Canada during the war while thousands more non-Status Indians, Inuit and Métis soldiers enlisted without official recognition of their Indigenous identity. More via @AnishNation
#CanadaRemembers #FNMI

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http://anishinabeknews.ca/2017/11/29/historian-reminds-us-why-many-first-nations-people-fought-in-world-war-i/

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Raw info / data on those who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (soldiers, nurses, chaplains) + the Newfoundland regiments found in @LibraryArchives personnel records, digitized for easy, online access.
#CanadaRemembers #Archives

...6/6 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx