The Long 1919: Hope, Fear, and Normalcy / Alan Bowker -- Coming Home: How the Soldiers of Canada and Newfoundland Came Back / Dean F. Oliver -- "Playing with Fire": Canadian Repatriation and the Riots of 1919 / William F. Stewart -- New Battlegrounds: Treating VD in Belgium and Germany, 1918-19 / Lyndsay Rosenthal -- "L'honneur de notre race": The 22nd Battalion Returns to Quebec City, 1919 / Serge Marc Durflinger -- Demobilization and Colonialism: Indigenous Homecomings in 1919 / Brian R. MacDowall -- Victory at a Cost: General Currie's Contested Legacy / Tim Cook -- Dealing with the Wounded: The Evolution of Care on the Home Front to 1919 / Kandace Bogaert -- In Death's Shadow: The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic and War in Canada / Mark Osborne Humphries -- The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: The Role of the Veterans / David Jay Bercuson -- The Group of Seven and the First World War: The Burlington House Exhibition / Laura Brandon -- Domestic Demobilization: Letters from the Children's Page / Kristine Alexander -- "At Peace with the Germans, but at War with the Germs": Canadian Nurse Veterans after the First World War / MeĢlanie Morin-Pelletier -- A Timid Transformation: The First World War's Legacy on Canada's Federal Government / Jeff Keshen -- Politics Undone: The End of the Two-Party System / J.L. Granatstein -- Growing Up Autonomous: Canada and Britain through the First World War and into the Peace / Norman Hillmer -- Past Futures: Military Plans of the Canadian and Other Dominion Armies in 1919 / Douglas E. Delaney -- The Navy Reborn, an Air Force Created? The Making of Canadian Defence Policy, 1919 / Roger Sarty -- "Our Gallant Employees": Corporate Commemoration in Postwar Canada / Jonathan F. Vance.
Summary:
"With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War--a war that was, for Canada, completely unexpected in its magnitude. In the midst of relief that the killing had ended, economic and political tensions were fraught as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future. The Canadian Corps had played a significant role in the war and were hailed as the "shock troops" of the British empire. They came home full of both sorrow and pride in their accomplishments, wondering what they would do, and how would they fit in with their families. The military stumbled through massive demobilization. The government struggled to hang on to power, labour seethed, and the threat of Bolshevism emerged. At the same time there were positive changes, 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 Canada--and the ways it did not."-- Provided by publisher.
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