1918 War on the Home Front Support for the War Effort People on the home front were encouraged to make sacrifices to ensure victory in Europe Victory Gardens ate less meat sugar butter bread so soldiers would have enough ID: 532886
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Canada & WW 1, 1914 - 1918
War on the Home FrontSlide2
Support for the War Effort
People on the home front were encouraged to make sacrifices to ensure victory in Europe.
Victory Gardens.
ate less meat, sugar, butter, bread so soldiers would have enough.
Prairie students dismissed early to bring in harvests.Slide3
Terror on the Home Front
Halifax Explosion Dec. 6, 1917
2000 people killed, thousands more injured and homeless
Mont Blanc
(French munitions ship) collided with the Belgian ship Imo
Blast felt 320 km awayOne of the worst disasters in Canadian historyHistorical Significance: brought the war home to Canadian shores.Slide4
Enemy Aliens
1914 – 500,000 German, Austrian & Hungarian people living in Canada
Government used War Measures Act to hold over 8597 enemy aliens in
labour
campsMajority were UkrainiansBerlin changed to KitchenerSlide5
The Changing Role of Gov’t
Hoarding by some business people led to profiteering
Government encouraged
honour
rationing (e.g. Meatless Mondays)Victory Bonds needed to pay for cost of war ($1 million per day)Slide6
New Roles for Women
Men at war
women worked in factories & on farms
Suffragists – voting rights for women
Wartime Elections Act – women who had male family member in war could vote in 1917 electionDominion Elections Act 1920 – all women could voteSlide7
Conscription
Conscription Crisis 1917 – men dying more than enlisting so shortage of soldiers
English support / French DO NOT support conscripting men
Military Service Bill – men 20-45 yrs old had to join armed forces, but not pacifists
PM Borden won election of 1917 riots in Quebec Slide8
End of World War 1
November 11, 1918 Germany surrendered after no supplies left to fight
Canada
60,661 dead / 173,000 wounded out of 8 million
Peace Treaty of Versailles – unfairly blames Germany for the war must pay for damages League of Nations uselessCanada more independent of BritainSlide9
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