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Canada was part of the British Commonwealth, and so when Britain declares war, Canada is automatically part of the war regardless if it was able to or wanted to but it also helped Canada progress in its military and ability to defend itself.
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At the start of registration, there was a law that prohibited indigenous people from joining the army but it wasn't well reinforced. A year later, the law was dropped, and the indigenous were part of the army. They were not judge by other soldier for their origin but rather their actions on the battlefield. This meant that they were treated as equals and seen as any other soldier, but the problem was that after the war and out of uniform the indigenous soldiers went back to being "Indians". -
She was a feminist during the war and fought the women to have the right to vote. Her reaction to the war was questioning why war exist even though how negatively it impacts people then Nellie states that it is because men enjoy fighting. Nellie also says that it is not inevitable and that if there were more voice then war could be prevent like the voices of women. She also stated that the war had helped women see their worth socially, and help them gain finical independency. -
Canada by October 1914, had a army of few thousand men and a navy, still Canada was not ready yet. So they trained soldiers at Valcartier Camp, and eventually they trained soldiers in Salisbury plains of England during the winter of 1914. By February of 1915, Canadian soldiers of the first division from the Canada arrived in French, and entre the trenches. The war took a turn for the worst once Canada's first division arrived.
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At this battle, the Germans used a new poisonous gas. In order to survive this attack, soldier breathed though their muddy handkerchiefs but even that was not enough, as men still died. Around a third of soldiers died from this but Canada's soldiers still held their positions despite the gas. There was a very notable soldier among an indigenous soldier who quickly was known as an excellent sniper, Francis Pegahmagabow. Indigenous people were judged off what they could do during the war. -
This battle end with only around 9% of the soldiers that survived the battle without any wounds, and this lead to having more of Canada's soldiers at Somme as offense in the end of the summer. Canada clearly suffered great losses from this battle. -
Due to a labour shortage, women need to get jobs to support the economy. From this women gain financially independence and start to gain the idea of their social worthy. They started to demand the right to vote, and in the end they got their wish to a degree. The primer minister create the law where female relatives to soldiers and nurses that were working overseas. This act didn’t please many groups of woman as how come only certain get the right to vote. -
Canada finally had gotten its air force later in the war. Even though, this was near the end the war; there are long term benefits from. As Canada was behind in technology, and only created a proper professional army just for the war. This meant that Canada wouldn't be able to stand for its if war was declared against it. So with the air force, it meant Canada was catching up technology and could better defend itself again other countries. They trained in August 1918, fought in November 1918 -
Near the end of the war, the government banned the making and selling. The people were not happy with this law and they started to make alcohol themselves and sell it too. Bootleggers, people who made alcohol and sold it, got quickly rich from it seems that people need something to indugle in or take their mind off things as drug and alcohol abuse significantly went up after this law was made