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* First Nations and Aboriginals
“First Peoples troops encountered a double cultural barrier in the military: the racial prejudice that marked the contemporary non-Aboriginal world, and a military hierarchy that worked almost exclusively in English, a language many Aboriginal recruits did not speak.” -
* People of Colour
“There are about one hundred officers at the hotel and I the only colored one so you know I am lonesome. I was as hungry as a dog the first night that I was here but walking in the dining room seeing about one hundred white officer and no colored officers I lost my appetite” -
@ Conscription
“I rejoice in my Empire's effort, and I feel pride in the voluntary response from my subjects all over the world who have sacrificed home, fortune, and life itself, in order that another may not inherit the free Empire which their ancestors and mine have built.I ask you to make good these sacrifices. The end is not in sight. More men and yet more are wanted to keep my armies in the field, and through them to secure victory and enduring peace. -
@ Women Working During The War
"Our women operators are performing “man-sized” jobs with capable careful hands” -
$ Economy and Taxes
Defining Documents in American History: The 1910s (1910-1919) -
+ Military weapons e.g. Tanks
“Conan Doyle's account emphasised the role massed tanks played during the battle which, on account of the surprise tactics employed, necessitated the absence of the usual preliminary artillery bombardment. He noted that initial progress was rapid, but slowed in the face of determined German resistance” -
* @ Disputes between English and French
“There was little sympathy for French Canadians and little understanding of the demographic, cultural or historical factors which might have dissuaded them from enlisting. Many English Canadians hailed the step as a military necessity, but also as a means of forcing French Canada to augment its low enlistment rate.” -
* Artists
"Works by Wyndham Lewis, Otto Dix, Paul Nash and David Bomberg helped define the Great War, representing the challenging landscapes and the voices of the soldiers who would never return” -
* + All New inventions (mechanical/electrical)
“Radio broadcasting is spectacular and amusing but
virtually useless. It is difficult to make out a convincing case for the value of listening to the material now served out by the American broadcasters.” -
+ Medicine
Title: Bottle of insulin with beige label printed in black and red rubber stopper
Author: Connaught Medical Research Laboratories
Place/Date: Toronto: Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, Nov 5 1923
Collection: Connaught
Media: artifact
