January 8, 2020: Introduction / Reading a CEF Service File
Matthew Archer Service File
January 22, 2020: Entry into War and Home Front Reactions (assignment #1 due)
Winter, Total War
No More Canadians for Overseas Service
Herridge, The Call of War
Borden, Military Preparedness
Palmer, The Maple Leaf Folk
Ontario’s Reaction to the War
Connor, Canadians Respond to War
Discussion Questions
January 29, 2020: The Canadian Army
Movie: Baptism of Fire
Walker, Race and Recruitment in World War One (pdf)
Copp, “The Military Effort 1914-1918” in MacKenzie, Canada and the First World War, pp.35-61
Discussion Questions
February 5, 2020: The Soldier Experience (Assignment #2 Due)
Movie: Slaughter in the Mud
John Sudbury, May 7, 1916
John Sudbury, Memoir
Foot, Rum as Combat Motivator
Mayse, July 5, 1917 (audio letter)
Mayse, July 6, 1917 (audio letter)
Matier, January 8, 1918
Bell, January 5, 1917
Brown, January 3, 1918
Curtis, August 3, 1915
Curtis, August 24, 1915
Cook, Politics Of Surrender
Discussion Questions
February 12, 2020: Women, Children, and the Home Front
Margaret Munro, August 28, 1918 Audio letter
Margaret Munro, August 30, 1918 Audio letter
Betty Mayse, July 31, 1917 Audio letter
O. Chubb, November 9, 1917
Kitty Ellis, April 29, 1917
A Message to the Boys and Girls of Canada
Win the War Recipes
The 123rd Battalion Recruiting Leaflet
Social Reactions of the War
Young Canada Looks at the War
Discussion Questions
February 19, 2020: National Unity? (Assignment # 3 Due)
Conscription Crisis of 1917
Borden, May 19, 1917
Bourassa, August 5, 1916
Pedley, August 28, 1917
The Globe, March 28, 1918
First World War Errors Unearthed
A Time for Atonement
Munitions And Labour Militancy
The Wartime Elections Act
Discussion Questions
March 4, 2020: Vimy Ridge
Vimy and the Battle of Arras
The End of the Beginning
Afterthoughts
Harold Panabaker, May 17, 1917
Charles Hamm, May 15, 1917
Stuart Kirkland, May 10, 1917
Gordon Thornton, April 19, 1917
Edmund Southworth, May 18, 1917
Movie: Storming the Ridge
Alfred Lawson MC, Memoir
Discussion Questions
March 11, 2020: Passchendaele: Hollywood (North) as History
Not Glamorous But Effective
Passchendaele: Canada’s Other Vimy Ridge
New Theatres of War
Passchendaele highlights uncounted casualties
Movie trailer
Discussion Questions
March 18, 2020: The Canadian Home Front
Toronto Women Trained to Defend the Home Front
Be British or be Damned
Canada’s Cultural Mobilization
The Social Unrest of the Soldier (1921)
Discussion Questions
March 25, 2020: The Last One Hundred Days
Overview, The Last 100 Days
Chappelle, The Canadian Attack at Amiens
Goldsworthy,Measuring the Success of Canada’s Wars
Movie: Masters of War
Discussion Questions
April 1, 2020: Aftermath and Remembrance
Canon Scott, The Significance of Vimy
The 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage
Review of Death So Noble
Remembrance Day
Jay Winter on World War One Today
In Flanders Fields
CWGC – The Ypres Salient
Jay Winter Commemorating Catastrophe
Ottawa’s New Vimy Exhibit
Discussion Questions
April 8, 2020 Student Presentations / Review (Final Essay Due)