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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450112303321

Titolo

Canada and the Great War [[electronic resource] ] : Western Front Association papers / / edited by Briton C. Busch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-86118-2

9786612861185

0-7735-7108-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BuschBriton Cooper

Disciplina

940.4/0971

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Canada

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the Sept. 21-23, 2001, Western Front Association seminar held in Ottawa.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Great War soldier as nation builder in Canada and Australia / Jeff Keshen -- Charlie Chaplin and the Canadian Expeditionary Force / Andrew Horrall -- Immortalizing the Canadian soldier : Lord Beaverbrook and the Canadian War Records Office in the First World War / Tim Cook -- John McCrae's wars / John E. Hurst -- From amateur to professional : the experience of Brigadier General William Antrobus Griesbach / Patrick H. Brennan -- Letters from Halifax : reliving the Halifax explosion through the eyes of my grandfather, a sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy / John Griffith Armstrong -- The origins of Canada-US defence cooperation : the naval defence of the Northwest Atlantic, 1914-18 / Roger Sarty -- Newfoundland and the Great War / W. David Parsons -- ASW pioneer to Bush pioneer : the HS-21 Canada / Christopher J. Terry -- Amiens, August 1918 : a glimpse of the future? / Sydney F. Wise -- Making memory : Canvas of war and the Vimy sculptures / Laura Brandon -- Canadian airman and Allied intervention in North Russia, 1918-19 / Owen Cooke.