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Billy Bishop and the War in the Air
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Canadian pilots such as Billy Bishop helped advance Canada’s reputation as a reputable air force in WWI. -
WOMEN AND THE HOME FRONT
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Women became caretakers while their husbands were away and they were encourage to enter the workforce temporarily. -
ENEMY ALIENS AND THE HOME FRONT
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People who had enemy backgrounds had their business attacked and their clubs closed. In 1917, there was an act which allowed police officers to arrest and imprison people without charging them. People who were imprisoned from enemy backgrounds were forced to live in camps and had to do labour, which in my opinion wasn't nice because how these people,who had enemy background didn't side with their enemy background and they were just Candians. -
THE ECONOMY AND THE HOME FRONT
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During WWI, Unemployment disappeared and there was hundreds of thousands of factories workers but debt increase in the last two years from $740 Million dollars to $1.2 billion dollars. -
Jeremiah Jones and Black Canadian Soldiers
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Jeremiah Jones was a black soldier, who was brave and excellent with the other black soldiers in the battle of vimy ridge in wwi. -
Conscription and the Home Front
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After the battle of Vimy Ridge, there was a need to replace the wounded and dead soldiers so the Prime minister Borden made a act for male between 20 and 45 years old to go to the military and many Canadian were mad and the French Canadaians especially as the French Canadian felt that they had no right to involve them in a war that had nothing to do with them. -
War Artists
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The War Artists created opportunities for Canadian photographers and painters to honor Canadians soldiers in WWI. -
Mae Belle Sampson, Katherine MacDonald and Nurses overseas
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Womens took the job of being Nurses for wounded soldiers and sacrificed their lives to help the wounded soldiers during WWI. -
The Consequences of WWI on Workers in Canada
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After WWI, the economy in Canada became sluggish and the increasing number of available workers became impossible for the economy to meet all of their needs. -
The Consequences of WWI for Returning Soldiers
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After WWI ended, Canadian soldiers returned to Canada only to be ill by a flu called the Spanish Flu. Even with 60,000 Canadians being killed in WWI, another 50,000 people were killed by the Spanish Flu. As a result, It left thousands of families without a primary wage earner and orphaned thousands of children.