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Enemy aliens is a term used to refer to Canadian citizens who were from the countries that were in war with Canada during WW1. These people were heavily mistreated to the point that they were imprisoned in labor camps with little shelter and little to no food.
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“…each province in Canada sent approximately 20 – 30% of its male population, with Manitoba seeing almost 50% of its men enlisting”.
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“These Canadian soldiers of the First World War would settle into a series of complicated trenches for four long and painful years of trench warfare with enemy armies facing them across “No Man's Land”, a killing field defended by lookouts, barbed wire, and guns.”
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“Pegahmagabow soon acquired a fierce reputation among his fellow soldiers, as many First Nations soldiers did, of being an excellent sniper.”
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“Pegahmagabow soon acquired a fierce reputation among his fellow soldiers, as many First Nations soldiers did, of being an excellent sniper.”
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“Business and industry were booming as factories and industry met the demands of a wartime economy.’’
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“Of the almost 300,000 factory workers engaged in war production in 1917, approximately one in eight were women.”
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“Prime Minister Borden and Sam Hughes appointed Max Aitken (later know as Lord Beaverbrook) to be Canada's “Eye Witness” to the war. He hired artists, writers and photographers as well as a brand new craftsperson – the cinematographer – to tell Canada's war story.”
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“This was known as conscription and fuelled anger and resentment amongst many Canadians.”
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“For some Canadians, images and news of nurses working hard at the front and sacrificing their lives helped to change notions of women as fragile, helpless creatures.”
