Canadian Military Vehicles: Information Resources

For current Canadian military vehicles, go right to the source: Army.ca On this official Canadian government site you will find photos and lots of other information not only about the Canadian Army and their equipment but also trucks, armor and other gear from other countries. Thanks to Pat Jay for this suggestion.

Canadian Vehicle Markings describes the national and unit markings of Canadian Army vehicles in WW II.

Canadian Military Pattern Vehicles. The CMP truck, honored with this site by Rod Diery, was built by both General Motors Canadian division and Ford of Canada and was also partly manufactured or assembled in Australia, New Zealand, India, Egypt and Britain. In it's numerous and diverse models, it saw service in just about every theatre of WW2, from the deserts of North Africa to the Steppes of Russia, from the jungles of New Guinea to the road to Berlin. Over 350,000 CMP trucks left the factories and went to war.

Maple Leaf Up, an extensive Canadian military site, has this section on Canadian military vehicles in WW II.

Colin Steven's personal web site exhibits his extensive knowledge of Canadian and British military vehicles and history.

Canadian Register is a CMP Owners Club that intends to gather and display a database of surviving World War II Canadian Ex-military vehicles. Chevrolet and Ford workshop manuals are available for downloading from the Library as PDF documents. Advertising is accepted for parts on their Marketplace web-page.

Made in Canada - Canadian Military Pattern vehicles is dedicated to the CMP vehicles built in Canada during World War Two and used in every theatre of war.

Canadian Military Pattern vehicles is loaded with vintage photos of CMP vehicles and prototypes.

Find More Information on the Web

There are many fine websites that have additional information on this topic, too many to list here and too many to keep up with as they come and go. Use this Google web search form to get an up to date report of what's out there.

For good results, try entering this: canada military vehicles cmp. Then click the Search button.

Canadian Military Vehicles

The Canadian military has used vehicles manufactured in Canada, and also vehicles adapted from U.S. or British vehicles. This Olive-Drab.com page describes resources where you can get information about all of these alternative Canadian military vehicles.

Visit the Olive-Drab Military Vehicle Charts that start here for additional photos of Canadian military vehicles.

U.S. Navy photo of a Canadian military truck driving off a U.S. Army landing craft from the 385th Transportation Battalion during joint US-Canada Exercise Seahawk 2001. The Canadian Scottish Regiment travelled five hours from Vancover to participate in the Puget Sound exercise, off the coast of Washington State, 9-15 August 2001.