With compelling insight, Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which the First World War shaped and changed Canada – and the ways it did not.
Description
With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the country’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Even as the military stumbled through massive demobilization and the government struggled to hang on to power, a new Canadian nationalism was forged. This fresh perspective on the concerns of the time exposes the ways in which war shaped Canada – and the ways it did not.
Reviews
Altogether, this is a fascinating collection of papers and recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of Canada’s role in the Great War.
- Jim Blanchard, Librarian Emeritus, University of Manitoba
All the articles are short and highly readable and provide multiple notes for further research that will prove useful to beginning researchers.
- S. Perreault
This collection of essays by established historians and emerging scholars, based on a 2019 conference at the Canadian War Museum, provides a richly detailed, if not quite comprehensive, portrait of Canada on the precipice of modernity.
- Jack Cunningham, Trinity College, University of Toronto
This work is fantastic, and the breadth of topics covered truly gives the reader a rich flavor of the issues facing not just Canada, but global democracies at the end of the First World War.
- Marc Sanko, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Canada 1919 is highly recommended to all those interested in the history of early twentieth-century Canada, World War I, and the medical and social history of the period.
- David Zimmerman, Department of History, University of Victoria