History 355H Discussion Questions
March 11, 2020

1. What does the story of the Women’s Home Guard tell us about gender and gender roles during wartime?
2. How did the German residents of Berlin define “Canadian”?
3. How did the idea of Canadian citizenship alter during the war? What was it at the beginning and what was it at the end?
4. What were the expectations placed on citizens during the war? How did the German residents of Berlin attempt to meet those expectations?
5. What can Berlin tell us about the wider home front experience in Canada?
6. What is meant by the term “Canadian war culture”? What would be its attributes?
7. Keelan says that Papineau “represented a link the public understanding of the war and that of the soldier”. What was the soldier’s understanding of the war?
8. In defining the war participation, imperialists and nationalists viewed it differently. What did each group believe?
9. Is Papineau able to reconcile those two views? How would you describe Papineau’s version of the war culture?
10. Overall what does Keelan’s article tell us about Canada during wartime? Is he in any manner a revisionist historian?
11. What is the problem that Eaton describes?       If he was correct, what were the implications for postwar Canadian society?