Relaxing

A Canadian soldier sent this postcard, with its verse tribute to soldierly masculinity, home to his mother in 1916.

George Parker, a barber who enlisted in the CEF in September 1915, writes to his wife about his work procuring food for the officers' mess of his unit.

The relationship between Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as seen by a First World War graphic artist.

During the First World War, it was common to draw the connection between sport and war - as in the postcard featuring a Union Jack soccer ball.

This postcard, showing the British lion mastering the German eagle, was a generic design - the word "Canadians" could be replaced with the name of another nationality or unit.

This patriotic cover, with the warship and crossed ensigns, honoured the Royal Canadian navy.

One of the many commemorative covers honouring the Canadian effort during the Second World War.

Bingo was just one of the many means used to raise money to supply soldiers overseas with cigarettes.

Printed early in the First World War to satirize army life, these cards were mailed by a soldier at Valcartier, Quebec, to his family in Melfort, Saskatchewan.

A soldier from Nova Scotia describes a brigade training march, involving 6000 men in a formation three miles long.