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Condición: New. 2015 N & M Press reprint (original pub c1930) SB 186 ppPublished Price £16 The military history of Canada during World War I began on August 4, 1914, when Britain entered the First World War (1914â"1918) by declaring war on Germany. The British declaration of war automatically brought Canada into the war, because of Canada's legal status as a British dominion which left foreign policy decisions in the hands of the UK parliament. However, the Canadian government had the freedom to determine the country's level of involvement in the war. On August 5, 1914, the Governor General declared a war between Canada and Germany. The Militia was not mobilised and instead an independent Canadian Expeditionary Force was raised.Canada's sacrifices and contributions to the war changed its history and enabled it to become more independent, while opening a deep rift between the French and English speaking populations. For the first time in its history, Canadian forces fought as a distinct unit, first under a British commander and then under a Canadian-born commander. The high points of Canadian military achievement during the First World War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later became known as "Canada's Hundred Days" Canada's total casualties stood at the end of the war at 67,000 killed and 250,000 wounded, out of an expeditionary force of 620,000 people mobilised (39% of mobilised were casualties).Canadians of British descentâ"the majorityâ"gave widespread support arguing that Canadians had a duty to fight on behalf of their Motherland. Indeed, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, although French-Canadian, spoke for the majority of English-Canadians when he proclaimed: "It is our duty to let Great Britain know and to let the friends and foes of Great Britain know that there is in Canada but one mind and one heart and that all Canadians are behind the Mother Country." Prime Minister Robert Borden offered assistance to Great Britain, which was quickly accepted.

Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No DJ. Colour Plates & b/w Drawings Ilustrador. No ffep. Yellowing to pages. Colour frontis plate. 125 pages. THE RED JUNKby G. E. Hoperoft; THAT'S YOUNG TOMLINSON by Wallace E. Arter; SKY QUEEN'S FINEST FLIGHT by B. C. Lawley; THE PERIL OF SIR AUSTIN byMartin Bishop; CONWAY CLEARS HIMSELF by S. Beresford Lucas; AN AID TO THE DEAF by Lt.-Col. A. Lloyd Owen; BRANDO OF THE FOURTH by John Denham Strange; HOLIDAYS START WITH A THRILL byK. Nelson Abbott; THE SPEED KINGSby G. Gibbard Jackson; THE SCARLET TRAIL by Eric Wood; LONE ASH MIRESby Martin Bishop; WICKS OF 'ARRY'S 'OUSE byR. A. Moss; A JOB FOR THE HOLIDAYS by William Carver Haynes; NOT CRICKETby A. E. Seymour; THE UNKNOWN CHALLENGERS by Martin Bishop. COLVILLE CAVES by M. M. Stevenson; TRUANTS IN LUCK by M. R. Sherlock; QUEER CARGO by W. H. Morris; ONE GOOD TURN by F. S. Blomfield; THE ART OF ARTHUR AMES by M. M. Stevenson; BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST by A. W. Seymour; THE CLASSROOM FEAST by P. Martin.; Binding a bit loose in places but generally sound. Size: Illustrated Boards.