The Conscription Crisis Of 1944

Author : Robert M. Dawson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1961-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442638105

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The Conscription Crisis of 1944 by Robert M. Dawson Pdf

In the late summer of 1944 the people and Government of Canada had every reason to view with satisfaction the progress of the war and their own part in it. The landing in Normandy had been successful, the enemy was in retreat from Belgium and Holland, Germany itself had been entered. The end of hostilities in Europe seemed in sight, and the Canadian Government in October began to plan for the celebrations to take place on the day victory was announced. Suddenly this atmosphere of imminent success and relaxed tension was broken by the unexpected re-appearance of the ghost of conscription. In mid-October Colonel Ralston, the Minister of National Defence, returned abruptly from an inspection trip overseas to report to Prime Minister King that infantry reinforcements for the units fighting in Italy and Northwest Europe were an acute problem and that there seemed no hope of increasing them to the required numbers in the required time. Many, from the Minister himself down, felt that the manpower pools could only be filled by immediate conscription from overseas service of men already called up for home defence under the National Resources Mobilization Act. The Government of Canada was thus confronted with a crisis of the first magnitude, which brought with it the threat of a schism that would cripple the war effort and set people against people, province against province for many years to come. This book provides an engrossing account of how between mid-October and mid-November this crisis was faced and resolved. Professor Dawson is keenly aware of the drama in the clash of personalities, of political views, of beliefs and conducts the eagerly following reader day by day through absorbing events and discussions to the morning of November 22 when Prime Minister King decided on the Order-in-Council drafting 16,000 men. The moment of solution was a historic one: conscription had been put forward by the majority in such a fashion that the minority could accept it, if not with enthusiasm, at least with substantial goodwill. The contrast with 1917 was inescapable. Professor Dawson has given a brilliant essays on the relation of political decision to popular consent in a democracy and it will attract and hold the attention of everyone interested in the arts of government.

Author : Robert MacGregor Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1070266321

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The conscription crisis of 1944 by Robert MacGregor Dawson Pdf

Author : Robert MacGregor Dawson (politiste).)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:299881201

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The Conscription Crisis of 1944 by Robert MacGregor Dawson (politiste).) Pdf

Author : Daniel Byers
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774830546

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Zombie Army by Daniel Byers Pdf

Zombie Army tells the story of Canada’s Second World War military conscripts – reluctant soldiers pejoratively referred to as “zombies” for their perceived similarity to the mindless movie monsters of the 1930s. In the first full-length book on the subject in almost forty years, Byers combines underused and newly discovered records to argue that although conscripts were only liable for home defence, they soon became a steady source of recruits from which the army found volunteers to serve overseas. He also challenges the traditional nationalist-dominated impression that Quebec participated only grudgingly in the war.

Author : Patrick M. Dennis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774836005

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Reluctant Warriors by Patrick M. Dennis Pdf

During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths, this Patrick Dennis examines whether conscripts made any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps in 1918. Reluctant Warriors provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who made a crucial contribution to the war effort.

Author : Sandra Dooling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1770714774

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The Conscription Crisis by Sandra Dooling Pdf

Author : J. L. Granatstein,J. Mackay Hitsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3230023

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Broken Promises by J. L. Granatstein,J. Mackay Hitsman Pdf

" 'No single issue has divided Canadians so sharply as conscription for overseas service.' This is the argument that Granatstein and Hitsman make in Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada, the first study of compulsory military service as it has been employed, rejected, or argue about in Canada from the French regime through to the unification debate of the 1960s. Most of the book is devoted to the conscription crises of the Great War and the Second World War, and new evidence from the papers and records of the participants is presented on the events of 1917 and 1944. The unhappy resolution of the conscription crises tells Canadians much about the reasons for French- Canadian dissatisfaction with Confederation."- Publisher

Author : Arthur W. Gullachsen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774864848

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An Army of Never-Ending Strength by Arthur W. Gullachsen Pdf

An army may march on its stomach, but it needs more than hot dinners to fight. As Canadians battled through Northwest Europe in the Second World War, how did they reinforce their front lines? An Army of Never-Ending Strength provides detailed insight into the administration, structure, and troop and equipment levels of the First Canadian Army during 1944–45. Captain Arthur W. Gullachsen demonstrates the army’s effectiveness at reinforcing its combat units and draws a powerful conclusion. The administrative and logistical capability of the Canadian Army created a constant state of offensive strength, which made a marked contribution to eventual Allied victory.

Author : R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424639

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Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman Pdf

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030954

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Fighting the People's War by Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Author : Robert M. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:B3685056

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German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944). by Robert M. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Rachel Louise Moran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295061

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Governing Bodies by Rachel Louise Moran Pdf

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the latest in a long, albeit often quiet, history of policy motivated by economic, military, and familial concerns. In Governing Bodies, Moran traces the tension between the intimate terrain of the individual citizen's body and the public ways in which the federal government has sought to shape the American physique over the course of the twentieth century. Distinguishing her subject from more explicit and aggressive government intrusion into the areas of sexuality and reproduction, Moran offers the concept of the "advisory state"—the use of government research, publicity, and advocacy aimed at achieving citizen support and voluntary participation to realize social goals. Instituted through outside agencies and glossy pamphlets as well as legislation, the advisory state is government out of sight yet intimately present in the lives of citizens. The activities of such groups as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Children's Bureau, the President's Council on Physical Fitness, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) implement federal body projects in subtle ways that serve to mask governmental interference in personal decisions about diet and exercise. From advice-giving to height-weight standards to mandatory nutrition education, these tactics not only empower and conceal the advisory state but also maintain the illusion of public and private boundaries, even as they become blurred in practice. Weaving together histories of the body, public policy, and social welfare, Moran analyzes a series of discrete episodes to chronicle the federal government's efforts to shape the physique of its citizenry. Governing Bodies sheds light on our present anxieties over the proper boundaries of state power.

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238343

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The Fight for History by Tim Cook Pdf

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 : Jordan Stanger-Ross
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228003076

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Landscapes of Injustice by Jordan Stanger-Ross Pdf

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the deliberate and permanent destruction of home through the act of dispossession. All forms of property were taken. Families lost heirlooms and everyday possessions. They lost decades of investment and labour. They lost opportunities, neighbourhoods, and communities; they lost retirements, livelihoods, and educations. When Japanese Canadians were finally released from internment in 1949, they had no homes to return to. Asking why and how these events came to pass and charting Japanese Canadians' diverse responses, this book details the implications and legacies of injustice perpetrated under the cover of national security. In Landscapes of Injustice the diverse descendants of dispossession work together to understand what happened. They find that dispossession is not a chapter that closes or a period that neatly ends. It leaves enduring legacies of benefit and harm, shame and silence, and resilience and activism.

Author : René Chartrand
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1841763020

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Canadian Forces in World War II by René Chartrand Pdf

Canada was the first Commonwealth country to send troops to Britain in 1939. During 1939-45 hundreds of thousands of Canadians - more than 40 per cent of the male population between the ages of 18 and 45, and virtually all of them volunteers - enlisted. Canadians fought with tragic courage at Hong Kong and Dieppe; with growing strength and confidence in Sicily, Italy and Normandy; and finally provided an entire Army for the liberation of NW Europe. This concise account of an extraordinary national effort in the cause of freedom is supported by data tables, photos, and eight colour plates by Canada's most knowledgeable military illustrator.