History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish & Francis Andrew March

Author:Richard Joseph Beamish & Francis Andrew March [March, Richard Joseph Beamish and Francis Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The work of the Canadian Red Cross Society included the building and equipping of auxiliary hospitals to those of the Canadian Army Medical Corps; providing of extra and emergency stores of all kinds, recreation huts, ambulances and lorries, drugs, serums and surgical equipment calculated to make hospitals more efficient; the looking after the comfort of patients in hospitals providing recreation and entertainment to the wounded, and dispatching regularly to every Canadian prisoner parcels of food, as well as clothes, books and other necessaries: The Canadian Red Cross expended on goods for prisoners in 1917 nearly $600,000.

In all the Canadian Red Cross distributed since the beginning of the war to November 23, 1918, $7,631,100.

The approximate total of voluntary contributions from Canada for war purposes was over $90,000,000.

The following figures quoted from tables issued by the Department of Public Information at Ottawa, show the exports in certain Canadian commodities, having a direct bearing on the war for the last three fiscal years before the war (1912-13-14), and for the last fiscal year (1918); and illustrates the increase, during this period, in the value of these articles exported:

VALUES

Average for 1912-1913-1914 1918

Foodstuffs $143,133,374 $617,515,690

Clothing, metals, leather, etc 45,822,717 215,873,357

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Total $188,956,091 $833,389,047

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