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Britain declared war on Germany.
Canada and the rest of the British Empire were at war -
Period: to
First World War
Was heralded as the war to end all wars -
McCrae composed "In Flanders Fields"
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. " -
'Lusitania' sank off the coast of Ireland when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat
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The Military Service Act "legally sanctioned conscription"
