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Canadian women in the world wars became indispensable because the world wars were total wars that required the maximum effort of the civilian population. While Canadians were deeply divided on the issue of conscription for men, there was wide agreement that women had important new roles to play in the home, in civic life, in industry, in nursing, and even in military uniforms.
The book of the First World War is the largest of the books, containing 66,655 names. It took James Purves of London, Ontario, eleven years to gather the necessary materials to begin work on the book, and upon his death in 1940, work passed to his assistant Alan Beddoe, who completed the book by 1942. (Beddoe spent the next thirty years of his ...
The Oxford companion to Canadian military history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-543088-2. Horn, Bernd (2008). Show No Fear: Daring Actions in Canadian Military History. Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-816-4. Horn, Bernd (2006). The Canadian Way of War: Serving the National Interest. Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-612-2.
A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (2007) excerpt and text search; Granatstein, Jack, and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977) Hunter, Mark C. To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve, 1899–1926 (2009) Milner, Marc. Canadian Military History. Toronto: Copp ...
Canadian History: A Reader's Guide Volume 2: Confederation to the present. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-2801-3. Pound, Richard W. (2006). Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates (3rd ed.). Fitzhenry & Whiteside. ISBN 978-1-5545-5009-8. Prentice, Alison; et al. (1996). Canadian Women: a History (2nd ed.). Harcourt ...
The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) is a women's charitable organization based in Canada. It provides scholarships , bursaries , book prizes, and awards, and pursues other philanthropic and educational projects in various communities across Canada.
Tim Cook CM (born 1971) is a Canadian military historian and author. [1] Cook is an historian at the Canadian War Museum [2] [1] and the author of thirteen books about the military history of Canada. [2]
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