Regions: Canada
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Canada
By J. L. Granatstein
The Dominion of Canada automatically went to war in August 1914 when Britain did…

Regional Thematic Articles

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Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Canada)
By Nathan Smith
This essay organizes its discussion of soldiers’ reactions to war into three sec…
Regional Thematic
Centenary (Canada)
By Geoffrey Bird
This paper explores Canada’s response to the Great War centenary of 2014-2018, s…
Regional Thematic
Commemoration and Cult of the Fallen (Canada)
By Jonathan F. Vance
Some 70,000 Canadians died while in military service during the First World War,…
Regional Thematic
Dominions’ Military Relationship to Great Britain 1902-1914 (British Dominions)
By Steve Marti
The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa …
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French Canada and the War (Canada)
By Mélanie Morin-Pelletier
In 1917, with tens of thousands of Canadian soldiers killed and wounded, the end…
Regional Thematic
Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Canada)
By David MacKenzie
This article examines the shifting nature of Canadian federal politics during th…
Regional Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today (Canada)
By Amy J. Shaw
Canada’s historiography of the First World War has tended to emphasize the war a…
Regional Thematic
Indigenous Experience of War (British Dominions)
By Noah Riseman, Timothy C. Winegard
Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Ze…
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Internment (Canada)
By Donald H. Avery
How did Canada, as a self-governing country within the British Empire, deal with…
Regional Thematic
Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Canada)
By Brad St. Croix
Canadian labour’s position at the beginning of the First World War was weak in r…
Regional Thematic
Pre-war Military Planning (Canada)
By James A. Wood
In the years leading up to the Great War, Canadian military planning was driven …
Regional Thematic
Recruitment and Conscription (Canada)
By Christopher Sharpe
Critical analysis of Canada’s recruitment for the war effort can be grouped arou…
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Science and Technology (Canada)
By Andrew Iarocci
Canada’s overseas military forces fought in the Great War under British Army com…
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Warfare 1914-1918 (Canada)
By Dean F. Oliver
Canada’s large-scale contribution to the Great War generated wartime pride and p…
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War Losses (Canada)
By Tim Cook, William Stewart
The Canadian casualty figures are difficult to determine in part because of inco…
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Women's Mobilisation for War (Canada)
By Sarah Glassford
Canadian women responded to and experienced the Great War in ways ranging from p…

Encyclopedic Entries

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Empire
By Erez Manela
World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …
Entry
Feminist Pacifism
By Annika Wilmers
A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…
Entry
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
By Geoffrey Hayes
This article offers a brief survey of the Canadian-born newspaper baron, Max Ait…
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Theater at the Front
By Emmanuelle Loubat
Whether on the Western or Eastern Front, by German, French, British, Canadian, A…

See Also

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Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
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Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War
By André Loez
Soldiers’ attitudes towards the Great War are a controversial issue, as they pro…
Thematic
Centenary (Internet)
By Lorna M. Hughes, Ian G. Anderson
The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…
Thematic
Centenary (Libraries)
By Matthew Shaw
Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and importan…
Thematic
Centenary (Visual Arts)
By Paul Gough
The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…
Thematic
Children and Youth
By Andrew Donson
Mass conscription recast relationships in families, raised minors’ potential as …
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Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
By Stéphane Tison
The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…
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Destruction of the Ecosystem
By Tait Keller
This article examines the First World War’s ecological impact and shows that pro…
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Drugs
By Łukasz Kamieński
Throughout history, intoxicants were an important part of the war experience. Th…
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Governments, Parliaments and Parties
By Torsten Oppelland
One sees a wide range of political regimes from a democratic republic with unive…
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Memory of the War: Popular Memory 1918-1945, 1945 to the Present
By Susanne Brandt
What role do representations of the First World War play in media that reach a w…
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Migration and Mobility
By Marlou Schrover
There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in f…
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Military Justice
By Steven R. Welch
This essay offers a comparative survey of the practice of military justice among…
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Moral Norms and Values
By Gearóid Barry
Change and continuity marked belligerent societies’ norms and values during the …
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Museums
By Jennifer Wellington, Aaron Cohen, Anne Hertzog, Susanne Brandt
This article describes the lives and afterlives of the First World War museums i…
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Mutilation and Disfiguration
By Julie Anderson
The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Ne…
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Photography
By Hilary Roberts
The First World War represents a watershed in the history of war photography. It…
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Rural Society
By Matteo Ermacora
The paper describes the impact of war on peasantry and its mobilisation in the w…
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Schools and Universities
By Andrew Donson
The military service of teachers and the mobilization of schoolchildren for volu…
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State, Civil Society and Relief Organizations for War
By Branden Little
A vast array of initiatives designed to counteract the destructiveness of the Fi…
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War Letters: Communication between Front and Home Front
By Martha Hanna
In nations where literacy was well-established by 1914, letter-writing was criti…
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Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
By Jean-Jacques Becker
It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…
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Women’s Mobilization for War
By Susan R. Grayzel
This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the F…
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Women War Reporters
By Stephanie Seul
Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …

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