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World War 1
August 4 1914 Britain declared war on Germany and Canada a colony of Britain also had to declare a war and fight. -
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World War 1
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Training Began
Canadians spent a miserable soggy winter in 1914, training on Salisbury Plain in England. -
In Flanders Fields
On April 24th, 1915, the Canadian forces in the Ypres Salient received their introduction to a new German weapon – poison gas. The horrors of this battle, Lt. Col. John McCrae lost his good friend, Alexis Helmer, so he wrote the famous words that became the poem “In Flanders Fields”. -
Lieutenant Colonel Allison Borden's Letter
On February 14th, 1916, Lieutenant Colonel Allison Borden, wrote a letter that was distributed to teachers and students in the province of Nova Scotia.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. His goal was to get the students to encourage their fathers and older brothers. -
Largest Man-made explosion
Just before Christmas, on December 6, 1917, the horrors of the war reached Canadian soil in a concrete manner. When 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 world had ever seed at the time. In the end, the Halifax blast killed over 1,600 people and injured thousands more. -
Jeremiah Jones
During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April of 1917, Jones rescued 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 national pride. -
Enemy Attack
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 -
German U-boat (submarine) torpedoed the ship
Although the Hague Convention, which set out the rules of war, stated that hospitals must be spared from attacks, and the ship was marked with red crosses that lit up at night, a German U-boat (submarine) torpedoed the Llandovery Castle at 9:30pm on June 27, 1918. Of the 258 people on board, only 24 survived, all 14 nursing sisters, including Mae Belle Sampson, were dead. -
World War I ended
World War I ended in 1918 on November 11th. Prime Minister Borden, after learning that two Canadian dead soldiers had died per twelve square centimeters of land gained in the battle, began to push for a larger voice in the decisions that Britain was making about the war effort. -
The Great Depression
The stock market crash is one of the causes of the Great Depression. The Great Depression began in 1929 and the stock market crash is generally considered to be its beginning. However, there are many other long term causes. The economic crisis would prove to be an extreme problem leading to extreme consequences for many Canadians.
