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Women on the Home Front(+1)
With many men away a woman's role as caretaker became even more important. Women were encouraged to enter the workforce temporarily to both free up men for military duty and replace men in the workforce. Huge numbers of women began taking on roles that were traditionally considered men's work. -
Lt. Col. Borden's Letter(0)
On February 14th 1916, Lieutenant Colonel Allison Borden, a cousin of Canada's Prime Minister Robert Borden, wrote a letter that was distributed to teachers in the province of Nova Scotia. Every child was given a copy and it was read in every school. Lt. Col. Borden was the commanding officer of the 85th Battalion and was trying to recruit enough soldiers for three more battalions from Nova Scotia. -
Conscription and the Home Front(-1)
On February 14th 1916, Lieutenant Colonel Allison Borden, a cousin of Canada's Prime Minister Robert Borden, wrote a letter that was distributed to teachers in the province of Nova Scotia. Every child was given a copy and it was read in every school. Lt. Col. Borden was the commanding officer of the 85th Battalion and was trying to recruit enough soldiers for three more battalions from Nova Scotia. -
The Economy and Home Front(+2)
Unemployment disappeared and munitions factories employed hundreds of thousands of workers. By 1917 there were almost 700 factories churning out aircraft, warships and most of the shells fired by British guns. The government created the Imperial Munitions Board to oversee this effort. In the last two years of the war, it was spending more than the government itself. The wartime industry did more than $2 million of business daily. -
Enemy Aliens and the Home Front(-2)
In 1917, a member of the provincial government in Alberta told the Toronto Telegram: "How sad it makes me to see the country being cleared of our fine Anglo-Saxon stock and the alien left to fatten on war prosperity." His reference to an "alien" meant Canadians of a German and Austro-Hungarian background. This type of prejudiced statement would be shocking to many Canadians today.