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The First Nations children
The Ranking: +2
Thanks to Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs Duncan Campbell Scott the First Nation, Metis and Inuit children from ages 7 to 15 were allowed to go to school. After an agreement that was negotiated between the national government and various churches so that there would be an established residential school system for these kids. -
The pilots in the Army
The Ranking: +1
Being a Pilot in world war one wasn’t an easy thing to do but those who could take offhand land a plane were luck because they were able too use the new technology for the Canada army and be like Billy Bishop and take down German planes as famous fighter pilot. -
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The progress or decline in Canada
The progress or decline in Canada. Our history. -
The soldiers
Ranking: -2
Traumatizing is word that I would use to describe the events and the environment for the soldiers in the first wired war.
What the soldiers had to go through wasn’t anything you can imagine. Some had lost limbs. Some had lost family. Some had lost lives. Overall war was one of the worst things a person could possibly go through.
The environment that the soldiers had to live in weren’t the most ideal. Not ideal they shouldn’t have been livable. -
First Nations soldiers
The Ranking: 0
Weren’t chosen to fight in the war didn’t have a great a chance to fight for their country in the tenches but a couple thousand got the opportunity to fight for their country like Francis Pegahmagabow. It is a good thing that they were recognized for being excellent snipers but they were still not excepted. Those who were like the other soldiers they had to watch there brothers parish from the poison gases that were introduced by the Germans. -
The French- Canadian Soldiers
The Ranking: -1
French- Canadian had a hard time with the manuals and instructions because they were in English. This alienated the soldiers and didn’t led them to not becoming promoted. It wasn’t until 1916 at the 22nd Battalion at the battle of Somme that some French- Canadian soldiers were promoted. -
Lt. Col. Borden and his letter to the children of Nova Scotia
The Ranking: 0
Lt. Col. Borden used his ranking in his hometown to get the attention of the kids to convince them to tell their fathers, brothers and/or Uncles to join the force and fight for their country. He told the children that if they helped him them it would mean tat they to were fighting for their country to and when they came home they to would be honoured. He asked children to send the men in their families into the battle field possibly leading them to being without a father. -
The Black soldiers
The Ranking: -1
They were discriminated by the white soldiers. Jeremiah Jones was a black soldier that rescued his unit from a machine gun nest. Who was also apart of one of the biggest victories that Canada had in the first world war. Jones was recommended for a Distinguished Conduct Medal. But was never given one because of the colour of his skin just because he was a “Black in a White Man’s army. It wasn’t until 2010 when his grandson was there to except the medal for him. -
The children in the time of the war.
The Ranking: -1
About 50,000 soldiers died from the Spanish flu. Lots of children became orphans after the flu struck. Also a lot of people, families especially children lost fathers, brothers and/or uncles. -
The Jobs during and after the war (economy)
The Ranking: -1
When the soldiers came back from the war the eligible white men got first pick on what jobs they wanted. Women were being asked to quiz the jobs they had taken up when the men went off to war. People believed that the men should have their jobs back because they could proved for the household better then the women could. Also the white soldiers tried to get the alien- Canadians out of their jobs because they believed that they were taking jobs that were rightfully for white men. -
The women of the war
The Ranking: +1
A women by the name of Emily Murphy was almost elected to the House of Commons in 1927. The Famous Five. A selected group of women got the opportunity to vote. -
Websites- where I got the information
All of the information was from the readings and discussions in class.
URL: hwcdsb.elearningontario.ca