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Adolf Hitler sent the German army into Poland, lead to the beginning of WWII
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7 days after Britain and France declared war on Germany, Canada declared war as well. First Canadian troops left for England in December.
Symbolic gesture of independence: when Canada was obligated to go to war at Britain's side, they were delayed by a week -
Were escorted through Halifax
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Quebec women were the last in Canada to gain the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections.
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Nazi, Fascist, and Communist groups were declared illegal in Canada and their leaders were sent to jail
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The National Resources Mobilization Act passed, providing for the enlistment for able-bodied men for home defence and wamended in 1942, giving the government power to enlist for overseas service.
responded to the need for a more effective Canadian war effort that arose from the German victories in Belgium and France -
Camillien House, mayor of Montréal, arrested by RCMP for sedition for advising Québec men to not take part in compulsory National Registration
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PM Mackenzie King and President Roosevelt held conference redarding the defence of North America at Ogdensburg, New York. Ogdensburg Agreement was signed and Permanent Joint Board of Defence created on Aug 18
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Squadron leader E.A. McNab of the Canadain fighter squadrom first met the enemy during the Battle of Britain. By October, they had downed 30 enemy air crafts.
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Vancouver shipyards began to build corvettes and minesweepers in preparation for the Battle of the Atlantic
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Oberleutant Franz Von Warrna escapes from a train near Smiths Falls, Ontario, and returned back to Europe. Was the only German prisoner to escape from Canada and successfully cross the Atlantic
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Mackenzie King and Roosevelt signed Hyde Park Declaration to unite the economies of the two countries for war.
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Quebec law changed to admit women to the bar, became notaries in 1956
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Federal government passed legislation to allow women to enlist in the army
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Played their last baseball game as Japanese community banished to exile on farms and internment camps
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Canada joins Great Britain and US in declaring war on Japan after Japanese attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour
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Name "United Nations" coined by Roosevelt
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Declared a zone of 100 miles inland from BC's Pacific coast as "protected area"
Authorized removal of all male Japanese nationals between 18-45 years old to interior internment camps -
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Japanese submarines fired a few shells on Vancouver Island
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Returning veterans can obtain loans to buy land
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Canadian and British troops raided French port to test German defenses, lasted 9 hours but killed more than 900 Canadians and 1874 taken prisoner
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Cecil Merritt was the first Canadian in WWII to win Victora Cross
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After the attack, 38 Japanese-Canadians were arrested
12 weeks after, government orders removal of all Japanese Canadians residing within 160 kilometers of Pacific Coast -
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in the western Mediterranean Sea
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Churchill and Roosevelt held 6th Anglo-American War Conference
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Henry Ducan Graham Crerar appointed Commander-in-Chief of 1st Canadian Army
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Churchill and Roosevelt held at Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, hosted by Mackenzie King
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Officers regained control of troops at Terrace, BC
The most serious breach of discipline in the Canadian military during WWII -
HMCS Clayoquot torpedoed by U-boat 806, sinks in Halifax approaches
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Closing of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
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1st Canadian Corps pushed north to the Ljsselmeer and isolated German forces in western Netherlands
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Victory in Europe Day riots broke out in Halifax
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ammunition barge blew up at Basin, Halifax harbour. Chain reaction fire, explosion, and concussion rocked Halifax for a day
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Canadian found Major-General Kurt Meyer, only Nazi prisoner imprisoned in Canada after war