In August 1914 and during subsequent mobilizations of volunteers for Canada’s overseas forces, local civilian supporters and recruits joined their regiments in staging organized send-off rallies, dinners, and dances, as well as more informal, but often crowded, departures at the local railway station. Evidence from Lethbridge, Guelph, and Trois-Rivières suggests that precise local circumstances in these cities combined with national discourses to determine how new recruits and civilians experienced their parting as a public event, marked by ritual, ceremony, and implied meanings. Local circumstances remained more significant than national bureaucratic procedures, although this balance would shift with subsequent conflicts. Local settings an...
S’agissant du Canada, l’idée selon laquelle les francophones n’ont pas démontré le même enthousiasme...
This article uses archival documents to create a group portrait of fifty-five sojourners from the Ru...
During the Second World War, the Canadian government initiated an extensive propaganda campaign desi...
In August 1914 and during subsequent mobilizations of volunteers for Canada’s overseas forces, local...
The impact of the First World War on Canadian identity has been understood in terms of victories won...
When Canadian soldiers went to war in 1914, they could not have anticipated the horrors that awaited...
Compulsory military service took on the most organized, long-term form it has ever had in Canada dur...
This article examines the coverage that Toronto newspapers and illustrated press gave to the city’s ...
Canadian public memory of the Great War was initially fragmented, centered around specific locations...
Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, le Canada fut pour la Grande-Bretagne un atout pour contrer les ...
In many communities, the war trophies that were captured by the Canadian Corps during the Great War ...
Quebec’s response to the Second World War is often reduced to its weak voluntary enlistment and its ...
During the First World War, unruly and ill-disciplined Canadian soldiers, on “assorted ’patriotic’ p...
Historians have generally claimed that, during the War of 1812, unlike in earlier periods, French Ca...
Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resour...
S’agissant du Canada, l’idée selon laquelle les francophones n’ont pas démontré le même enthousiasme...
This article uses archival documents to create a group portrait of fifty-five sojourners from the Ru...
During the Second World War, the Canadian government initiated an extensive propaganda campaign desi...
In August 1914 and during subsequent mobilizations of volunteers for Canada’s overseas forces, local...
The impact of the First World War on Canadian identity has been understood in terms of victories won...
When Canadian soldiers went to war in 1914, they could not have anticipated the horrors that awaited...
Compulsory military service took on the most organized, long-term form it has ever had in Canada dur...
This article examines the coverage that Toronto newspapers and illustrated press gave to the city’s ...
Canadian public memory of the Great War was initially fragmented, centered around specific locations...
Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, le Canada fut pour la Grande-Bretagne un atout pour contrer les ...
In many communities, the war trophies that were captured by the Canadian Corps during the Great War ...
Quebec’s response to the Second World War is often reduced to its weak voluntary enlistment and its ...
During the First World War, unruly and ill-disciplined Canadian soldiers, on “assorted ’patriotic’ p...
Historians have generally claimed that, during the War of 1812, unlike in earlier periods, French Ca...
Historians have paid scant attention to the compulsory conscription of men under the National Resour...
S’agissant du Canada, l’idée selon laquelle les francophones n’ont pas démontré le même enthousiasme...
This article uses archival documents to create a group portrait of fifty-five sojourners from the Ru...
During the Second World War, the Canadian government initiated an extensive propaganda campaign desi...