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The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service for men in Canada during World War II. It was similar to the Conscription Crisis of 1917 , but not as politically damaging.
Anti-Quebec sentiment (French: ... The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service for men ...
In early 1942, Liguori Lacombe formed the anti-conscriptionist Parti canadien which finished strongly in two February by-elections. In the April 27, 1942 national plebiscite on conscription held in Canada, a little more than 70% of Quebec voters refused to free the federal government from its promise to avoid a general mobilization, while about 80 per cent of the citizens of the rest of Canada ...
1940 - Camillien Houde, mayor of Montreal, is arrested for his public countenancing of the men of Quebec to ignore the government's National Registration Act. He is interned until 1944. 1942 - Referendum on conscription. Quebec votes against conscription a second time; the rest of Canada votes in favour (see Conscription Crisis of 1944).
Conscription Crisis of 1944; March 20 – Henry Duncan Graham Crerar becomes chief of the Canadian Army June 6 – World War II: The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division lands at Juno Beach, part of the Invasion of Normandy
After arriving in England for the forthcoming Imperial conference, The Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, is greeted by General Harry Crerar and Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart, 28 April 1944. During the Conscription Crisis of 1944, Stuart took a pro-conscription stance, for which he was dismissed by General ...
Many soldiers began to disobey orders of those officers present in Terrace. On 24 November 1944, members of the Fusiliers du St-Laurent, who were part of the 15th Brigade, resolved to resist any efforts to deploy them overseas and some men seized weapons. The mutiny spread to other elements of the 15th Brigade as news came in of resistance by ...
Fifteen years later, after Fiset resigned from Parliament to become Quebec's Lieutenant-Governor, d'Anjou returned to the Rimouski riding, winning in the 1940 election. On 22 June 1944, as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1944 , d'Anjou left the Liberals and crossed the floor to join the Bloc populaire which opposed conscription during ...