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Author : Grant Dexter,Manitoba Record Society
Publisher : University of Manitoba Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010471428
Author : David Zimmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4381678
Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Author : Thomas Guthrie Marquis,George M. Wrong,H. H. Langton
Publisher : Dodo Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1603032649
Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936) was a Canadian author, born at Chatham, New Brunswick, and educated at Queens University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1901 to devote himself to literature. He was editorial writer of the Ottawa Free Press (1905) and office editor of Canada and Its Provinces (1914-15), a publication in 22 volumes on the history of Canada. His works include: Stories of New France (with A. M. Machar) (1890), Heroes of Canada (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Stories From Canadian History (with A. M. Machar) (1893), Marguerite de Roberval: A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier (1899), Canadas Sons on Kopje and Veldt (1900), Life of Lord Roberts (1901), Presidents of the United States (1903), Brock: The Hero of Upper Canada (1912), English-Canadian Literature (1913), The War Chief of the Ottawas (1915), The Jesuit Missions: Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness (1916), The Cathedral (1924), The Kings Wish (1924) and The Cathedral and Other Poems (1936).
Author : J.L. Granatstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487524760
This essay collection traces the sustained work over the past fifty years of the foremost historian of Canadian politics in the era of the two world wars.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Civil service
ISBN : OCLC:670413501
Author : Sean Richmond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503468
This book tells the story of how two of America's closest allies, Canada and Britain, have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal obligations during two of the most significant international conflicts since the Second World War.
Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238343
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2021 Ottawa Book Awards A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance. By the end of the 20th century, Canada's experiences in the war were largely framed as a series of disasters. Canadians seemed to want to talk only of the defeats at Hong Kong and Dieppe or the racially driven policy of the forced relocation of Japanese-Canadians. In the history books and media, there was little discussion of Canada's crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the success of its armies in Italy and other parts of Europe, or the massive contribution of war materials made on the home front. No other victorious nation underwent this bizarre reframing of the war, remaking victories into defeats. The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events.
Author : Jeffrey A. Keshen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774850827
It was the “Good War.” Its cause was just; it ended the depression; and Canada’s contribution was nothing less than stellar. Canadians had every reason to applaud themselves, and the heroes that made the nation proud. But the dark truth was that not all Canadians were saints or soldiers. Indeed, many were sinners. In this eye-opening and captivating reassessment of Canadian commitment to the cause, some disturbing questions come to light. Were citizens working as hard as possible to back the war effort? Was there illegal profiting from the conflict? Did Canadian society suffer from a general decline of “morality” during the war? Would women truly “back the attack” in new factory jobs and the military, and then quietly return home? Would unattended youth produce a crisis with juvenile delinquency? How would Canada reintegrate a million veterans who, policy-makers feared, would create a social crisis if treated like their Great War counterparts? The first-ever synthesis of both the patriotic and the problematic in wartime Canada, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers shows how moral and social changes, and the fears they generated, precipitated numerous, and often contradictory, legacies in law and society. From labour conflicts, to the black market, to prostitution, and beyond, Keshen acknowledges the underbelly of Canada’s Second World War, and demonstrates that the “Good War” was a complex tapestry of social forces – not all of which were above reproach.
Author : Mark Bourrie
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459706675
Fighting Words is a history of war reporting in Canada over 1,000 years, including Viking battles, the destruction of the Huron nation, and a surgeon's account of the Battle of Lake Erie. Military buffs and fans of Canadian history will be thrilled by these eyewitness accounts by journalists and non-fiction writers.
Author : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404
What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.
Author : Briton C. Busch
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773571082
The topics covered are wide-ranging and eclectic, and include, among others, studies of the Battle of Amiens, the Halifax explosion, Charlie Chaplin and wartime propaganda in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Newfoundland's contribution to the war effort, the leadership capabilities of Brigadier General Griesbach, and the wartime poetry of John McRae. Contributors include Major John Armstrong (ret.), author many articles on military history and an administrative specialist in the Canadian Forces for thirty-two years, including stints as an instructor in history at the Royal Military College; Laura Brandon, curator of war art at the Canadian War Museum and co-author of Canvas of War: Painting and the Canadian Experience, 1914-1918; Patrick Brennan, associate professor of history at the University of Calgary; Tim Cook, archivist at the National Archives of Canada; Owen Cooke, independent researcher and former chief archivist at the Directorate of History, Canadian Department of National Defence; Andrew Horrall, archivist in charge of military records at the National Archives of Canada; John Hurst, retired administrator from the University of Guelph and head of the Ontario Branch of the WFA ; Jeff Keshen, associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa; David Parsons, Lt. Colonel with the Canadian Forces in Korea and chair of the Newfoundland Branch of the WFA; Roger Sarty, director of Historical Research and Exhibit Development at the Canadian War Museum; Christopher J. Terry, director, Canada Science and Technology Museums and chair of the Aviation Museum Group of the International Association of Transportation Museums; and Sidney F. Wise, professor emeritus in history and former dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University.
Author : Don Cummer
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443113823
Friend or villain? Brother or traitor? This compelling story of wartime friendship brings the looming War of 1812 to dramatic life. Jacob is a steadfast Loyalist. Eli is a newcomer to Upper Canada, whose family has just moved from the American South. The two boys become fast friends, but their friendship is tested when Eli's father refuses to pledge allegiance to the Crown. As Loyalists in Upper Canada become more and more suspicious of those with American leanings, the looming war threatens to pull the boys -- and their town -- apart. Peopled with key figures from the War of 1812, such as General Isaac Brock and newspaperman-turned-traitor Joseph Willcocks, Brothers at War portrays the tense era just before the War of 1812, which pitted neighbour against neighbour as Upper Canada prepared to fend off invading American forces.
Author : Charles Perry Stacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033827259
Deals with almost every aspect of Canadian war policy.
Author : Raymond Moriyama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Military museums
ISBN : 0660033984
Discover the architectural vision behind Canada's striking and iconic national museum of military history. Since its opening to the public on May 8, 2005, the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the Canadian War Museum has become a recognizable icon. The building was an instant success and, over the years, has become a recognizable destination for Canadians and visitors to Canada wishing to understand how military history has shaped our country, while marveling at the building's architectural symbolism. Renowned architect Raymond Moriyama's remarkable commentary on the design principles of the building highlights the vision behind each structural element ? from the echoes of the Canadian landscape, to the sound of nature in Regeneration Hall, to the axis of the sun at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day. The Legacy Document is a key reference for the conservation of the Canadian War Museum, and it explores Moriyama's dream for the future of the building and its landscape.
