Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 by Brian Douglas Tennyson

Author:Brian Douglas Tennyson
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

2. By way of comparison, Australia, with a population of 4 million—about half that of Canada—raised 421,809 men, representing 38.7% of its male population between the ages of eighteen and forty-four. Australia did not, of course, have a large French population, but it did have a large Irish population, many of whom felt no affection for Britain. Australia held two referenda on conscription during the war, both of which were defeated.

3. Philippe Panneton (writing as Ringuet), Trente Arpents (Paris: Flammarion, 1938), 144, quoted in Susan Fisher, “Canada and the Great War,” in The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kroller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 230. The only francophone war novel published during the war was Ulric Barthe’s Similia Similibus ou La Guerre au Canada: Essai romantique sur un Sujet d’Actualité (Québec: Telegraph, 1916), which depicted an imagined German takeover of Quebec City.

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