Contents

Illustrations

Preface

I Introduction

Introduction: Myth, Memory, and the Transformation of Canadian Society

DAVID MACKENZIE

1 Craig Brown’s Logical Reason

RAMSAY COOK

II Fighting the War

2 The Military Effort, 1914–1918

TERRY COPP

3 Conscription in the Great War

J.L. GRANATSTEIN

4 Political Leadership in the First World War

JOHN ENGLISH

5 Against Isolationism: Napoléon Belcourt, French Canada, and ‘La grande guerre’

PATRICE A. DUTIL

6 The Economic Impact of the Great War

DOUGLAS MCCALLA

III The War at Home

7 Mobilizing Women for War

JOAN SANGSTEK

8 Supporting Soldiers’ Families: Separation Allowance, Assigned Pay, and the Unexpected

DESMOND MORTON

9 Ontario and the Great War

ADAM CRERAR

10 Ethnic and Class Relations in Western Canada during the First World War: A Case Study of European Immigrants and Anglo-Canadian Nativism

DONALD AVERY

11 The Crusade for Science: Science and Technology on the Home Front, 1914–1918

ROD MILLARD

12 Canada Invaded! The Great War, Mass Culture, and Canadian Cultural Nationalism

PAUL LITT

13 Eastern Approaches: Maritime Canada and Newfoundland

DAVID MACKENZIE

IV The Aftermath

14 Canada and the Peace Settlements

MARGARET MACMILLAN

15 Remembering Armageddon

JONATHAN F. VANCE

Contributors

Index