This short essay focuses on education within schools and universities during the Second World War in order to explore the relationship between war and learning. In elementary schools…
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Volunteering was an integral part of the “total war” Canadians experienced during the First and Second World Wars, offering civilians a meaningful and practical way to…
Canada’s participation in the First World War has often been described as a coming-of-age – a trial by fire that transformed an immature colonial polity into an independent…
Between 1939 and 1945, Canada was engaged in a total war. Across all sectors of society, people mobilized. Many men, and women too, enlisted to fight overseas.
Those people…
"Canada has determined to change the eating habits of a nation, because she has learned that efficient production of food is only half the victory. It takes efficient…