Responses due by 11:59 pm on Monday, October 5.
Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred (or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories). Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Parliament or the Office of the Prime Minister, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons.
These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research.
This week’s task demands that you find a primary source dealing with Canada and World War One. It could be a diary (lots of these online), a letter from a soldier, a memoir, a newspaper article, interview, etc. Your task will be to discover a valid World War One primary source and analyse/comment about its significance to you as a researcher and to Canadians in general. Make sure to provide the link to the Internet site you use in your post.
As always, responses are due by 11:59 pm on Monday, October 5.