Canadian War Cemeteries in France (Belguim)

Department of Veteran Affairs or Veteran Affairs Canada would be what you are looking for. Also just google Canadian War Cemeteries for information on cemetery locations and grave sites.

Elaine...click here to search for the Canadian you mentioned. The results should tell you the exact location of the grave. If it mentions only a memorial, chances are the body was never found.
The dead from our wars over the past century or so are the responsibility of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, formed by members countries of the Commonwealth to care for hundreds of cemeteries around the world. It, too has a search function...click here to access that.
Once you find what you're looking for, go to the CWGC site again and, on their search page, choose "cemeteries" instead of "casualty" to get more information on the location itself.

Check out Dieppe, France. Close to Normandy and a quick trip across the channel if you are day tripping from England.

From memory there is a large and significant WW2 Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge. Saw it from a distance on the bus en route from Calais to Amsterdam.

A trip to Vimy Ridge is well worth it for any Canadian. We went last year. Spectacular and sombre.
John Stevens puts out a great little booklet for Canadians visiting the Great War sites of Flanders and Vimy Ridge see: www.TheGreatWar.ca

Veterans Affairs website will also assist you in trying to locate a person site of burial.

Good Luck and Enjoy

You might look for Major and Mrs. Holt's battlefield guides. We use them a lot and they list all the cemetaries, plus directions to find them, and give interesting facts about who is buried in them: medal winners, famous people, etc. I used it last year to find Joyce Kilmer's grave in the Somme.

They are great, because they list everything in one volume, but generally focus on the first WW.

While I was researching these cemeteries, I learned about the "Shot at Dawn" graves. I also learned that a few years ago the UK Parliament pardoned all 300+ soldiers who were executed. Just wondering if anyone knows - were the 26 Canadians shot at dawn included in that number? and were they also pardoned by the UK - or have they been pardoned by the Cnanadian Parliament? I wonder if the US used the same method to deal with shell-shocked soldiers? And, is the statue of Brig-General Haig still standing in Whitehall?

AFAIK, they were part of the British blanket pardon, since they were serving under British command during the war. And Field Marshall Haig's statue was still sthere last year....

23 Canadians were executed during WW1. If you scroll down the attached article it will answer your question re US handling of desertion and cowardice.

In 2001 the Canadian Government issued a formal apology to the families of those who were executed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/shot_at_dawn_01.shtml

"I wonder if the US used the same method to deal with shell-shocked soldiers?"

The website cited in the above post says no American soldiers were executed--I'm assuming that statement pertains only to World War One.

In World War Two at least one American soldier was shot by firing squad in France, for the military crime of desertion to avoid hazardous duty in time of war (basically, refusal to fight)--this was Private Eddie Slovik. A 1974 made-for-TV movie tells the story, with Martin Sheen as Private Slovik.

The execution of Private Eddie Slovik was also depicted in the move The Victors.

Don't forget, too, that the first units of the AEF didn't engage in combat in the First World War until the end of May, 1918.