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WWI Recruitment Review of Reading French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War

WWI Recruitment Review of Reading French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War Dispatches: Backgrounders in Canadian Military History Dr. Serge Durflinger Recruitment messages Demographics of recruits Gender Age Marital status Ethnicity Initial surge of volunteers. Why?

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WWI Recruitment Review of Reading French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War

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  1. WWI Recruitment • Review of Reading • French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War • Dispatches: Backgrounders in Canadian Military History • Dr. Serge Durflinger • Recruitment messages • Demographics of recruits • Gender • Age • Marital status • Ethnicity • Initial surge of volunteers. Why? • Drop off of volunteers, increase of need. Why? • Conscription and the Conscription Crisis

  2. WWI Recruitment • Recruitment messages • King and Country • Borden • Patriotism • Anthem in Dawson City • Unity • Volunteering in Moose Jaw • La Patrie • Dissent • Winnipeg labour paper

  3. WWI Recruitment • Demographics of recruits • Gender • Age • Marital status • Ethnicity

  4. WWI Recruitment • Initial surge of volunteers. Why? • October 3 1914 33, 000 troops departed • 1915 20, 000 troops departed • Fall 1915- October 1917 124, 000 recruited • Drop off of volunteers, increase of need. Why? • Independent battalions authorized • Need 250, 000 then 500, 000 out of a population of 8 million • Annual replacement: 75, 000 • July 1916-Ocotber 1917: 28000 volunteers

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  10. Conscription • Military Service Act (August 28 1917) • 400, 000 eligible • 94/98 % applied for exemption • 87/91% exemptions approved • 620, 000 served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force • 108, 000 were conscripted • 48, 000 went overseas and of those 24, 000 served at the front

  11. Conscription Crisis… • Articulate the reaction, views, beliefs of your identified group. • Present them as a group. • Write a summary of perspectives of two groups (other than your own), identifying underlying economic, socio-political and cultural issues that influence this perspective. Conclude with your own assessment of the decision to implement conscription • Groups • French Canadians • British-born English Canadians • Canadian-born English Canadians • First Nations • Labour rights activists • Minister of Militia and Defense

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