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SS St.Louis
The SS St.Louis was a ship consisting of 907 Jew that no one in Canada wanted. These Jews were escaping from Nazi persecution when setting sail in Germany, making their way to Cuba. Canadian immigration was not accepting these Jews so they returned to Germany where many died in death camps soon after. Since then, Canada has been more accepting and tolerant with allowing immigrants into the country. -
Battle of Hong Kong
The Japanese attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong on December 7, 1941. Hundreds of Canadian troops were sent out to help the British with the battle that lasted seventeen and a half days. Japan wanted to expand its borders and take over Asia, which is one of the main reasons this battle started. It was a omplete failure and it left hundreds of Canadians dead. -
Japanese Internment
Internment is the confinement or detention of people in the time of war. People were declined certain legal rights in Canada but there was some freedom with appealing their custody. Japanese people were told by police to gather up belongings that they could carry. Later these people were put on trains and sent out to remote camps. They suffered from the sting of racism ever since the first japanese set foot on the shore in 1877. Laws were passed to restrain Japanese from certain legal rights. -
Conscription Plebiscite
A lively political debate in French Canada was the result of the question of military conscription. King promised not to introduce conscription previously but was asking to be realeased from this pledge in 1942. At this time the Canadian ary in Britain was not fighting, but King had the feeling that would change. A vote was organized by the government on this question; do you think the conscription should happen? Though this caused tension, it did not cause a massive riot. -
Dieppe Attack
In northern France, allies launched a raid on Dieppe. It was planned that the allies would launch an attack and create havoc among the German defences in a nine hour time period. Planning and the element of surprise was required if there was to be any success. Dieppe was well defended, by Germans, with machine guns and artillery. Many lessons were learned from the pathetic failure of Dieppe and more thought was needed in order to be more successful. -
Battle of Ortona
Canada had to prove itself in this tough battle with Ortona. Canadians fought house to house for 30 days and did not give up. They wanted to liberate Italy from its dictators. This battle turned out to be a turning point in the war. 1372 Canadians were found dead and sulks in taking this "unimportant" town. -
D-Day
150 000 Britain, US and Canadian people participated in this long awaited invaion of France. The army, navy and air forces all worked together. Though we suffered casulaties, all together this resulted in a successful battle. In fact, it was a turning point in the war; it was the beginning of the end of the war. -
The Liberation of the Netherlands
Canadian forces were given the important and deadly task of liberating the Netherlands from the Nazis, in the last few months of world war two. The Dutch were forever grateful for us after this liberation.
