Autore	Craig Grace Morris.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (177 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Disciplina	940.4/81/71
Collana	Social History of Canada
Soggetto topico	World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 - Canada
ISBN	1-4426-3775-7 1-4426-5321-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Then we were young -- 2 Alf's story -- 3 The crossing -- 4 Up the line -- 5 The home front -- 6 All in the game -- 7 Reunion -- 8 No more mud -- 9 The last battle -- Epilogue
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910149437003321

Autore	Busch Briton C.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina	940.4/0971
Altri autori (Persone)	BuschBriton Cooper
Soggetto topico	World War, 1914-1918 - Canada Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 - Canada
ISBN	1-282-86118-2 9786612861185 0-7735-7108-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910783793803321

Autore	Tennyson Brian Douglas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina	940.4/0971
Soggetto topico	World War, 1914-1918 - Canada
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8108-8860-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Photo Credits; Introduction; 1 The Summer of 1914; 2 Between Mother England and Uncle Sam; 3 Answering the Call; 4 Preparing for War; 5 Discovering Modern Warfare; 6 Building the Corps; 7 Shock Troops of the Empire; 8 The Home Front; 9 Conscription; 10 Demanding a Voice; 11 Partners in a Common Cause; 12 The War at Sea; 13 The War in the Air; 14 Canada's Hundred Days; 15 The New Reality; 16 North American Nation; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463643003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Calgary, Alberta : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (610 p.)
Disciplina	971.2302
Collana	Beyond Boundaries : Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
Soggetto topico	World War, 1914-1918 - Canada
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-55238-836-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Series page; Full title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TIMELINE; SECTION ONE: Albertans at War: The Military; Colour Insert; An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War; Raymond Brutinel and the Genesis of Modern Mechanized Warfare; While You Were Away: Alberta's First World War Aviation History; Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure; Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War; The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914-1918; Sid Unwin's War; Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of AlbertaThe Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War; The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front; Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Rising to the Challenge; Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story; Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts; SECTION TWO: The Home Front: Context and Meaning; Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916; Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War "O valiant hearts who to your glory came": Protestant Responses to Alberta's Great WarAlberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization; Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914; Edmonton's Local Heroes; Voices of War: The Press and the Personal; From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta during the First World War; The Great War and Labour in Alberta; The Great Western Garment Company during the First World War; The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey; SECTION THREE: Communities at War; Edmonton and the Great War The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support, and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, AlbertaRed Deer and the First World War; Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt; Calgary's Grand Theatre in the Great War; Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus during the First World War; Mobilizing Mount Royal: Capturing Campus Contributions to the Great War; Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916 Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple AssociationConscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War; SECTION FOUR: Aftermath; War, Public Health, and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta; Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta; Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931; First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums; APPENDIX; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466141103321