...Canada’s Homefront During WW1 In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, which meant that Canada was going to war as well. Canada’s young men were going to war to serve their country as well as demonstrating their patriotic duty to Britain as they left behind their loved ones on the Canadian homefront. The First World War had a profound impact on life in Canada during the war. As our Canadian soldiers faced conflicts and huge challenges on foreign battlefields, there were many changes coming for those left behind on the Canadian homefront as they faced many social challenges and a shift in life, as they knew it. During WW1, the Canadian homefront saw a great transformation in the role of women in Canadian society, reforms in the labour movement and an increase in tension between French and English Canadians due to the conscription crisis. At the turn of the century, the role of women in Canadian society began to change drastically as their roles expanded beyond the home. Many Canadians viewed the woman’s role as the mother and homemaker but Canada’s participation in WW1 dramatically altered how women were viewed. So many Canadian men enlisted in the war that Canadian labour force was hugely diminished because if men were at war, they could not be working in the factories so Canada was forced to turn to women to join the workforce. “As the number of volunteers increased it was becoming clear that a new source of labour would have to be found. Women...
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...In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson announced American support smallpox eradication where they would focus in Africa and South America. With the American technology, there was vaccination distribution through the PEDO jet, and bifurcated needles. When Donald Henderson did his field work, he concluded there was not enough vaccine for everyone, and would only be able to cure those with symptoms, and surrounding people. In 1977, was the last natural case of smallpox, and on the 9th of May, 1980, smallpox was officially eradicated. Canada’s contribution to the smallpox eradication was the development of a highly potent freeze the dried smallpox vaccine by Connaught Medical Research Laboratories in Toronto. More recent contributions include; Professor David Evans of the University of Alberta who announced on Friday, March 3, that he has devised a new vaccine based on horsepox. In conclusion, with the threat of bioterrorism, we had little health infrastructure if smallpox were to...
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...Throughout the course of WW2, Canadians continuously proved themselves to be as capable as the powerful countries: Great Britain and United States. The Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Italy Campaign, D-Day and the liberation of the Netherlands were proof of that. Along the Great Britain and the United States, Canada took part in Operation Overlord. Canadians were assigned the part of Normandy beach codenamed Juno and had penetrated farther inland than other Allied forces. The 1930’s and WW2 saw Canada’s involvement with foreign affairs, thus establishing its role as a major player in international affairs. On the homefront, Canadians actively supported the war effort. Like WW1, many women worked in war industries, for the Red Cross and volunteered at the soldiers’ canteens. One of the notable figures during this time was Elsie MacGill, the woman who designed the Hurricane fighter planes. However, this period saw the interment of 20,000 Japanese Canadians due to the public’s irrational fear of a Japanese...
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...tremendously but it also impacted the roles of women. During 1914 to 1918 the roles of women were changing drastically. As the men went to war the women of Canada began to attain opportunities, economically and politically. Although many believed women to be incapable the Canadian women took control of professions formally handled by men and gained immensely from this. Once the war began it opened up many opportunities for Canadian women including jobs. The women took the places of men while they were at war. The women helped the economy greatly because if it was not for them Canada’s economy would fail. Women began to participate in war, from nursing to munitions manufacturing to gain involvement. Canadian women helped the economy because they were...
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...| Canadian History | People, Events, Concepts | | Genti Agako | 3/21/2013 | | Person/ Event/ Term | Identify | Historical Importance | Robert Borden | -Elected Conservative MP from Nova Scotia in 1896.-Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920.-Adopted the controversial policy of conscription in 1917.-Is regarded as one of Canada’s most successful prime ministers. | -He managed Canada’s war effort with great success and increased international status.-His handlings of wartime issues such as conscription remain controversial – he did initiate women’s right to vote in 1917 election.-Expanded Canada’s autonomy with Britain. | Schlieffen Plan | -German plan to avoid a two-front war by concentrating troops in the West and quickly defeating the French and then, if necessary, rushing those troops by rail to the East to face the Russians before they had time to mobilize fully. | -The Schlieffen Plan was the strategic plan for victory, in case of the instance where Germany would be fighting a war on two fronts. In order to speed up the process of the Schlieffen Plan and avoid a war on two fronts, Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium.In defence of Belgium's neutral standing in the War, Britain declared war on Germany and thus the First World War began, therefore, the hastiness of German forces and the Schlieffen plan; had effectively sparked the First World War. | ...
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...THE CANADIAN HISTORY OF IMMIGRATNT WORKERS Canadian labour history is tainted by hatred, discrimination and fear of immigrant workers and immigration. This stems in part from Government sponsored racism and the capitalistic use of immigration as a means to defy the labour movement. We can start with the stereotyping and discrimination of the Irish in the 1840’s, our first large scale exploitable labour pool and move right through to today’s racial profiling and cultural unacceptance of Arabs and east Indians. Through our history the acceptance of immigrants gradually improve but even today we haven’t achieved an acceptable level of tolerance. Were not perfect but we eventually seem to learn from the mistakes of our past. After Mackenzie King and into the sixties government supported racism through our immigration department seemed on the decline. With the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms Act being signed into the constitution we took a huge leap forward. However, this doesn’t erase a past full of discrimination and exploitation of immigrants by government, employers and labour. In Canadian history immigrant workers have been racially stereotyped, discriminated against and subjected to differing levels of acceptance within Canadian culture and the working class society. Immigrant workers found themselves in varying levels of distress upon arrival to Canada, being exploited by employers, shunned by labour and oppressed as second class citizens by government. This may be...
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...C.D. Howe C.D. Howe was a businessman and politician who was responsible for many different innovations that were introduced to mainstream Canada from the start of his career in the 1920s as an engineer until the time of his death in 1960. Where he proved himself worthy was on the public stage during all the wars Canada was involved with during his lifetime. In WW1 he helped innovate the grain industry by helping to introduce grain elevators in the prairies which was essential to the home front war efforts. In WWII he was responsible for overseeing all industry production of equipment and munitions which was an essential role in the federal government at that time and it was a very demanding position with a lot of responsibility. After the ally victory of the two World Wars he then contributed again to the war efforts of the Cold War. He played a contributing factor to developing Canada’s nuclear industry in case of an upcoming attack as the Minister of Defense Production. On top of his war efforts he was also responsible for the establishment of a number of crown corporations such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Trans-Canada Airlines and the oil pipeline which extends from Alberta to central Canada. It was not necessarily just Howe’s war efforts which qualify him for a lasting place in Canadian history but rather his ability to fuse both government and business which benefit all stakeholders involved. His capability to facilitate very complex and accurate...
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...C.D. Howe C.D. Howe was a businessman and politician who was responsible for many different innovations that were introduced to mainstream Canada from the start of his career in the 1920s as an engineer until the time of his death in 1960. Where he proved himself worthy was on the public stage during all the wars Canada was involved with during his lifetime. In WW1 he helped innovate the grain industry by helping to introduce grain elevators in the prairies which was essential to the home front war efforts. In WWII he was responsible for overseeing all industry production of equipment and munitions which was an essential role in the federal government at that time and it was a very demanding position with a lot of responsibility. After the ally victory of the two World Wars he then contributed again to the war efforts of the Cold War. He played a contributing factor to developing Canada’s nuclear industry in case of an upcoming attack as the Minister of Defense Production. On top of his war efforts he was also responsible for the establishment of a number of crown corporations such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Trans-Canada Airlines and the oil pipeline which extends from Alberta to central Canada. It was not necessarily just Howe’s war efforts which qualify him for a lasting place in Canadian history but rather his ability to fuse both government and business which benefit all stakeholders involved. His capability to facilitate very complex and accurate...
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...conflicts faced by coal miners and manufacturing workers in the 1920s have on Canadian society and the labour movement as a whole? How did these experiences shape future laws and attitudes toward workers' rights and social welfare? Did it change a lot of people’s perspectives on this job later on? Viewpoint #3- Frederick Banting: a. I am thinking whether the 1920s was a period of progress or decline from the point of view of. Frederick Banting. According to the evidence I have seen, Banting was not a strong student. His grades were weak, and he even failed his first year of university. Regardless of this, he changed many lives when he and a colleague discovered insulin in 1922! As a part of his story, he graduated from medical school during WW1. He also tried to enlist in the war, but was denied two times because he had bad eyesight and didn’t meet that requirement. He did get accepted into the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served 3 years at the front! He made the accomplishment of treating soldiers for 16 hours despite being wounded himself. This made him win the Military Cross. In his journey, in 1923, Banting and his colleague, McLeod were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of...
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...Five Ideology's assignment Mohammad Kareem Conservatism: In Theory Communism would work and is the best way to form a government, but as this ideology was implemented in different countries and nations the reality has shown it might be very far from being perfect. This system of government as well as economy is also based on trying to create equality. Communism can be related to Socialism which creates equality by essentially sharing all profits and land with the community. Unlike socialism however,Communism believes that there is no need for a profit to be given to the worker or for land to be owned by any workers because it creates inequality and this must be done to ensure social order. A Lot of the communist ideology is totally opposite and against capitalist views. There is no competition in communism and wages and salaries are equal across all carers and work. In Communist theory, government leaders should only be temporary and used only to gear the population towards true order and then step down and let the work cycle continued. Many of the communist ideology is predominantly theory and is highly criticized by many nations. In today's day and age many countries have decided to opt out of the communist social structure because it is unpractical and does not provide true equality as theorized. Communism was a fairly modern ideology founded only about 120 years ago but has lingered throughout history. The majour man honoured with the creation of communism is Karl Marx...
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