Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force
Welcome to the Canadian military history task force of the Military history WikiProject!
Participants
Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.
- Alberg22 (talk · contribs) (New to Wiki & Wiki-markup, been working on HMSC Prince David.)
- Bridesmill (talk · contribs)
- Easter rising (talk · contribs) (Still working on my wikki skills as well)
- E Pluribus Anthony (talk · contribs)
- Harryema (talk · contribs)
- Ktsquare (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can)
- Michael Dorosh (talk · contribs)
- Mike McGregor (Can) (talk · contribs) (I'm still learning this wiki-markup, but its coming!)
- Motorfix (talk · contribs) (Anything to promote our rich military heritage! UBIQUE!)
- Sealteam (talk · contribs) (Lets do it!)
- SigPig (talk · contribs) (Maybe some insignia, heritage, etc (soft) military stuff)
Spread the word
I'm slowly going through edit histories on related articles to see if I can find more folks who might be interested in this effort. If you know any editors you think might be interested, drop them a line and invite them to take a look!
Related Projects
To-do
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (2,902) • ...to coverage and accuracy (2,505) • ...to structure (534) • ...to grammar (104) • ...to supporting materials (636)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- • List of infantry weapons and equipment of the Canadian military • 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
- Requested articles
- 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 14th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 15th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 260th Battalion, Canadian Rifles, CEF (Siberia) • Battle of Dickinson's Landing • Battle of Pigeon Hill (1866) (currently redirect) • J. Angus Waters • Atlantic Coast Patrol • 21 Army Intelligence Corps • Victor-Gabriel Brodeur • Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue (currently redirect) • Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies (currently redirect) • RCAF International Training Programs
- Expansion needed
- 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade • 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade • 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 7th Canadian Infantry Division • 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 8th Canadian Infantry Division • 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade • 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade • Corps of Canadian Railway troops • 6th Canadian Infantry Division • Battle of Point Pelee • Battle of the Short Hills • Battle of Cambrai (1918) • Battle of Lacolle (1838) • Battle of Odelltown • Battle of Ortona • Commander-in-Chief, North America • Operation Impact • Operation Spring • Patriot War • Battle of Moreuil Wood • List of military equipment of the Canadian Army during the Second World War • John K. Lawson • Battle of the Belly River • Percy W. Nelles • Newfoundland Escort Force • Canadian Northwest Atlantic • 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) • Royal Canadian Dragoons • Battle of Grand Pre • Battle of La Prairie • Battle of Pelee Island • Battle of Walcheren Island • First Battle of Bloody Creek • 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade • Second Battle of Bloody Creek • Harold Taylor Wood Grant • Canadian Military Pattern truck • Canadian Forces Europe • Raid on Canso • Walter Hose • Military history of North America • James D. Prentice • Forts-de-Lévis • Operation Accius • Operation Blockbuster
- Images needed
- 259th Battalion, Canadian Rifles, CEF (Siberia)
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- 1st Canadian Division • 2nd Canadian Division • 3rd Canadian Division • 4th Canadian Division • 5th Canadian Division • 6th Canadian Infantry Division • Canadian Army • The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) • 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
- Translation needed
- Forts-de-Lévis
General
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Canadian Military History, including:
- Conflicts and military history of the Native/First Nations peoples, Colonial powers in North America.
- i.e. the Beaver Wars, French and Indian Wars, Seven Years War, Dutch and Spanish influences, etc.
- Effects of the American Revolution and America's westward expansion on Canada and its military history.
- i.e. War of 1812, Tecumseh's War, Arnold expedition/Invasion of Canada (1775) (I put up a merger request for the last two by the way...), boarder tensions (i.e. Pig War, Aroostook War et. al.)
- Conflicts in Canada between the end of the War of 1812 and Confederation
- Canadian involvement in the Second Boer War
- Canadian involvement in the First World War
- Canadian involvement in the Second World War
- Canadian involvement in the Korean War
- Canadian Army deployments after the Korean War.
- Historical military units and organizations and Canadian military unit histories.
- Equipment and weapons used in Canada's conflicts.
- Create new articles and stubs of subjects where needed. Identify articles for creation.
- Expand and improve existing articles and stubs. Identify articles for improvement.
- Organise content such that it can be easily navigated by people with little knowledge on the subject of Canadian Military History.
Current Events
Articles regarding current events relating to the Canadian Forces, needing periodic updates as events unfold
- Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan
- Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan
- Coalition casualties in Afghanistan
Creation
- Nile Voyageurs - needs creating-->see Military history of Canada#Canadian_independence for a bit of info
- The Moro River (battle) -->Italian campaign, includes Ortona
- Le Mesnil-Patry (battle) - needs creating --> Aka "Black Sunday" for the 1st Hussars. (I wouldn't mind taking this on when I'm done with the 1st Hussars article.
- Canadian Military Pattern truck
- Battle of Pelee Island (1838) (also known as the Battle of the Ice?)-> Fought between a Hunter's Lodge unit which staged in Sandusky, and a British (or militia?) cavalry unit. Part of the Patriot War
- List of post-war military equipment of the Canadian Army or somthing similar.
- John K. Lawson
- Battle of Cambrai (1918)
- Battle of Signal Hill
Expansion
see: Category:Canadian military stubs
- Operation Tractable - stub-->follows Operation Totalise
- Category:Canadian regiments --> many of these regiments have very little info. Maybe we could try to fill out each regiment to a minimum standard of information (say garrison location, battle honers and a brief history? or something like that)
- List of infantry weapons and equipment of the Canadian military --> maybe a brief description of each weapon and its Canadian service? plus, add/remove anything that needs changing.
- mouse-holing (tactic) - stub created 7 Apr - someone please proof
- Just created and nominated for DYK: Major-General F.F. Worthington, father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
- List of military equipment of the Canadian Army during the Second World War - missing equipment needs to be added
- Patriot War
- Breskens Pocket
Improvement
- Allied invasion of Sicily- you wouldn't even know that Canadians were involved from this article...
- Juno Beach Needs work.
Tagging articles
Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Canadian-task-force=yes to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Canadian military history task force articles.
Categories tagged
- Category:Forts in Canada
- Category:Military history of Canada during World War I
- Category:Canadian military memorials and cemeteries
- Category:Battles of the North-West Rebellion
Resources
Categories
- Category:Canadian military history task force articles
- Category:Military of Canada
- Category:Military history of Canada
- Category:American colonial wars
- Category:Battles of Canada
- Category:Battles of the French and Indian War
- Category:Battles of the North-West Rebellion
- Category:Battles of the War of 1812
- Category:Canadian regiments
- Category:Conflicts in Canada
- Category:Canadian military memorials and cemeteries
- Category:Military history of Canada during World War I
- Category:Military history of Canada during World War II
- Category:Native American wars
- Category:Royal Canadian Air Force
- Category:Wars of Canada
- Category:Canadian World War I people
- Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of Canada
Lists
- List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients
- List of military equipment of the Canadian Army during the Second World War
- List of infantry weapons and equipment of the Canadian military
Templates
- {{WPMILHIST}} - Military History Project for article talk-pages (add "|Canadian-task-force=yes" for articles relevant to this task-force).
- {{User WPMILHIST Canadian military history task force}} - user-box for task-force participants.
- {{CanMilHistNotice}} - a "recruiting" template for the talk pages of editors who may be interested in joining the task force. if you notice an editor who seems to be interested in Canadian military topics, why not let them know about the project? (A personalized message may still be better, though, if you have time to write one.)
- Useful stub types:
- {{Canada-mil-hist-stub}} will place articles in category:Canadian history stubs, category:Canadian military stubs and Category: Military history stubs.
- {{canada-hist-stub}} Canada history stubs
- {{Canada-mil-stub}} Canada military stubs
- {{Mil-hist-stub}} Military history stubs.
- {{Warof1812-stub}} War of 1812 stubs
- {{WWI-stub}} World War I stubs
- {{WWII-stub}} World War II stubs
- {{US-mil-hist-stub}} United States military history stubs
Web resources
- http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/cwme.asp Canadian War Museum
- http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/htmlindex.htm Canadian infantry equipment
- Canadian Military Heritage - "Online reference books" Canadian Military History from pre-colonial times to present.
- Canadian Military History Gateway - dateabase of Canadian Military history subjects.
- http://www.sfu.ca/casr/101-0intro.htm -Canadian American Strategic Review, DND 101, Info on Canadian Army issues and equipment.
- http://www.cefresearch.com/phpBB2/index.php?sid=797f24bfe17d8e909c35132127a273b6 - CEF Research Fourm
- http://army.ca/
- http://library.ucalgary.ca/subjectpages/socialsciences/history-canadianhistory/canadianmilitaryhistory.php A list of books that could be useful.
- http://regimentalrogue.com/ -Regimental Rogue