As many as 1600 Canadians came to Spain to fight for the Spanish Republic; more than 400 of them were killed. Many were Finnish or Estonian Canadians

Media

• Excellent CBA radio doc: Canada’s “MacPaps” and the Spanish Civil War

• and more here

• Youtube documentary: Los Canadienses: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

• Online film about Norman Bethune “This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world’s first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.”

Texts

• Wikipedia: Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion

• From Ottawa to Spain and back again: Canadians in the SCW

• ‘You are history. You are legend.’ Canada’s last Spanish Civil War vet dies

• Loads of photos of Canadian brigaders here