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'''''1812–1815<br>'''''  

'''Fenian Invasions'''. At two different times a few hundred Irish nationalists invaded Canada from the United States but were repulsed by local militia.<br>  

'''Withdrawal of British Forces''' from Canada. With the exception of two battalions at Halifax, all British army units were withdrawn from Canada. Defense was turned over to the militia.<br>  

'''First World War'''. During World War I more than 628,000 Canadians joined the armed forces. Two-thirds served overseas; 60,661 died.<br>  

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'''Second World War'''. Of the 1,086,000 Canadians who served, 49,000 were women. War dead were 41,992. Following the Second World War, many women and children relocated to Canada. They were known as Canadian War Brides. For more details, click [[Canadian War Brides in World War II|here]].<br>  

Morton, Desmond. ''A Military History of Canada.'' Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1985. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M2mdm; .)  

Fryer, Mary Beacock. ''Battlefields of Canada''. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1986. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M2fm; .)  

Cooke, Owen A. ''The Canadian Military Experience, 1867–1983: A Bibliography''. 2d ed. Ottawa: Directorate of History, 1984. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M23c 1984; .)  

Roy, Régis, and Gérard Malchélosse. Le Régiment de Carignan: Son organisation et son expédition au Canada. (The Carignan Regiment: Its Organization and Its Expedition to Canada) Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1925. (Family History Library Call No. 971 A1 no. 14; film 1320669 item 19; .)  

''Lost in Canada? vols. 8–10''(August 1982 to May 1984). (Family History Library Call No.971 B2Lc; 41 Microfiche 6048073; )  

Clark, Murtie June, comp. ''Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. 3 vols''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981. (Family History Library Call No. 975 F2cm; .) Each volume has more than 9,000 names. Volume 1 lists Loyalists from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. Volume 2 gives members of units from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia who served in the South. Volume 3 includes muster rolls of Loyalist regiments from mainly New York and New Jersey, some of whom served in the North during the early part of the war and were then transported to Georgia or the Carolinas to serve there. Many Loyalist soldiers who served in southern campaigns were later evacuated with their families to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Many of them eventually found their way to Quebec and Ontario.  

''Index to Rolls of the Provincial (Loyalist) Corps, Canadian Command''. . . N.p.: Halton-Peel Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, n.d. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M2f Index.)  

Cruikshank, Ernest A., ''The King’s Royal Regiment of New York. 1931''. Reprint. Edited and indexed with the addition of a master muster roll by Gavin K. Watt, Toronto: The Ontario Historical Society, 1984. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M2ce 1984.) This work contains information about American Loyalists who were mostly recruited in the Mohawk Valley of upper New York. It contains more than 1,700 names.  

Fitzgerald, E. Keith. ''Loyalist Lists: Over 2,000 Loyalist Names and Families from the Haldimand Papers''. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1984. (Family History Library Call No. 971 M2fe; two microfiche 6010886; .) The names in this book are from:  

Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''American Loyalist Claims, Volume I''<nowiki>: Abstracted from the Public Record Office Audit Office Series 13, Bundles 1–35 &amp; 37. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1980. (Family History Library Call No.973 R2cp v.1; Microfilm 1035626 item 1; two Microfiche 6051361. Other volumes have not been published.) It includes about 2,000 entries and an index to every name.</nowiki>