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Front Lines and Canada at Home. Schlieffen Plan. How can Canada pay for the war?. Imperial Munitions Committee Factories Victory Bonds Income Tax. Women at War. Bluebirds Canadian Army Medical Corps. Women at Home. Volunteers Working in factories, farms and fishing boats
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How can Canada pay for the war? • Imperial Munitions Committee • Factories • Victory Bonds • Income Tax
Women at War Bluebirds Canadian Army Medical Corps
Women at Home • Volunteers • Working in factories, farms and fishing boats • Right to vote federally in 1918
Halifax Explosion • December 6, 1917 • Mont Blanc with 2500 tones of dynamite hit the Imo • Largest accidental non-nuclear explosion to date • Re-enactment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3DU95ZLxw8 • Real life account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8Nn5tHEOw&NR=1
Conscription Crisis • Military Service Act • Quebec • Henri Bourassa • Prairie Farmers • Miners on the Island
Election • Main issue was conscription • Union Government won • Riots in Quebec City • 130 000 were enlisted but only 25 000 conscripted soldiers reached France before the end of the war • Military Voters Act- men and women overseas could vote • Wartime Elections Act- women related to servicemen could vote