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“The beginning of WWI”
On August 4th, 1914 Britain declared war on Germany. Canada, a colony of Britain, had to also declare war on Germany. (POLITICAL) (-1) -
“Training on Salisbury Plain”
Canadians spent a miserable soggy winter in 1914, training on Salisbury Plain in England. (SOCIAL) (+1) -
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“Introduction to Poisonous Gas and Lt. Col. McCrae famous poem”
On April 24th, 1915, Canadian forces at St. Julien located in the Ypres Salient received their first introduction to a new German weapon, poisonous gas. Lt. Col. John McCrae prompted himself to write the famous words that became the poem “In Flanders Fields” because of the loss of his good friend Alexis Helmer. (SOCIAL/ECONOMIC) (-2) -
“Lt. Col. Allison Borden’s letter”
On February 14th, 1916, Lt. Col. Allison Borden wrote a letter that was distributed to teachers in the province of Nova Scotia. Every child with given a copy in order for them to recruit enough soldiers for three more battalions from Nova Scotia. (SOCIAL) (+2) -
“The explosion on the Halifax Harbour”
Just before Christmas, on December 6th, 1917, a French boat carrying munitions bound for Europe collided with another ship and exploded in Halifax Harbour. The blast was the largest man-made explosion the would had ever seen, until the atom bomb detonated on Hiroshima, Japan. This blast had killed over 1,600 people and injured thousands more. (ECONOMIC) (-2) -
“The rise of Black-Canadian soldiers”
During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April of 1917, Jeremiah Jones recued his unit from an enemy machine gun nest in what was to become a battle that is now known as Canada’s greatest success and source of great pride. (SOCIAL) (+1) -
“Canadian Nurse, Katherine MacDonald”
A nursing sister Katherine MacDonald lost her life at the age of 25 after an enemy air attack on the 1st Canadian General Hospital on May 19th,1918. (POLITICAL) (-1) -
“The Hague Convention”
The Hague Convention set out rules of war that stated that hospitals must be spared from attacks, and ships that were marked with red crosses that lit up at night. A German U-boat torpedoed the Llandovery Castle at 9:30pm on June 27th, 1918. Of the 258 people on board, only 24 survived. (POLITICAL) (-2) -
“The end of WWI”
World War I ended on November 11th, 1918. Prime Minister Borden soon learned that Canadian dead soldiers had died per twelve square centimeters of land gained in the battle, had begun to push for a larger voice in the decisions that Britain was making about the war effort. (POLITICAL) (0) -
“The start of the Great Depression”
The Great Depression began in 1929 and the stock market crash is generally considered to be its beginning. The economic crisis would be proven to be an extreme problem leading to extreme consequences for many Canadians. (ECONOMIC) (-2)
