Canada 1919
A Nation Shaped by War
With compelling insight, Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which the First World War shaped and changed Canada – and the ways it did not.
Description
With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War, as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future.
Veterans returned home full of both sorrow and pride in their accomplishments, wondering what would they do and how they would fit in with their families. The military stumbled through massive demobilization. The government struggled to hang on to power. And a new Canadian nationalism was forged.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the concerns of the time: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; Canada’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which war shaped and changed Canada – and the ways it did not.
Reviews
All the articles are short and highly readable and provide multiple notes for further research that will prove useful to beginning researchers.
- S. Perreault
Altogether, this is a fascinating collection of papers and recommended reading for anyone interested in the history of Canada’s role in the Great War.
- Jim Blanchard, Librarian Emeritus, University of Manitoba
This collection of essays by established historians and emerging scholars, based on a 2019 conference at the Canadian War Museum, provides a richly detailed, if not quite comprehensive, portrait of Canada on the precipice of modernity.
- Jack Cunningham, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Canada 1919 is highly recommended to all those interested in the history of early twentieth-century Canada, World War I, and the medical and social history of the period.
- David Zimmerman, Department of History, University of Victoria
This work is fantastic, and the breadth of topics covered truly gives the reader a rich flavor of the issues facing not just Canada, but global democracies at the end of the First World War.
- Marc Sanko, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
"I recommend this edited collection to anyone who wants to understand the immediate and long-lasting legacies—both positive and negative—of the First World War on Canada."
- Brittany C. Dunn, Wilfred Laurier University
"Cook and Granatstein’s volume offers a rich selection of interpretations from scholars of the World War I period…"
- Andrew Iarocci, Western University