WW1 Document Gallery

By Ryan Parmelee

Home Front• War Measures Act• Internment Camps

• Economy• Victory Bonds and Income Tax

• Role of Women• Propaganda

War Measures Act

Poster Demanding Registration of Alien Enemies in CanadaSource unknown.

http://vimyridgehistory.com/kit-3/ethnocultural-diversity/enemy-aliens/

The War Measures Act was passed unopposed in 1914. This allowed the federal government to suspend civil liberties and by-pass parliament to do things through order-in-council that it felt were necessary for the war.

http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1914/1914-04-war-measures-act.html

Internment Camps

The German Internment Camp at Edgewood during WWI

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/hydro/en/communities/edgewood.php?id=2

Germans in a internment camp during world war one

http://ww1internmentandtreatment.weebly.com/the-germans.html

Guards watch over prisoners at the internment camp at the Cave and Basin site at Banff, Alberta.

http://www.osoyoostimes.com/osoyoos-museum-exhibition-shows-canadian-internment-of-ukrainians/

Economy

Women work inside a Northern Electric Co. Ltd. factory in Montreal, Que. during the First World War.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.802117

Thanks to the Imperial Munitions Board, women got the chance to work in factories. They became the major labour force in producing supplies to troops.

http://choisocials11.wikispaces.com/WWI+Document+Gallery

Farm Life in Canada

http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/farm-life-in-canada.html

Victory Bonds and Income Tax

If Ye Break Faith - We Shall Not Sleep[Canada], [ca. 1918]F. L. Nicolet

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/bonds.aspx

Income War Tax Act 1917

http://vimyridgehistory.com/kit-3/gov/financing/taxes/imgs/

Role of Women

Canadian nurses during World War I (Ward 33)

http://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/archival-resources-teachers/archival-look-world-war-i/women-and-war

Women packing olives for McLarens, Hamilton, Ont, c. 1920s

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/women-in-the-labour-force/

Women sorting through ammunition during WWI

https://sites.google.com/a/share.epsb.ca/canada-s-total-war-in9-wwi/canadian-industry-in-wwi

Propaganda

Young man ... join now, the 73rd Royal Highlanders of Canada

http://www.ww1propaganda.com/world-war-1-posters/canadian-ww1-propaganda-posters?page=4

Canadian propaganda poster during World War 1 shows Canada's part in the war.

http://whoistoblameforwwi.weebly.com/verdict-2-germany-is-mostly-to-blame-but-the-other-major-powers-contributed-to-the-start-of-the-war.html

The happy man today is the man at the front. Royal Highlanders of Canada ... join the 73rd now.

http://www.ww1propaganda.com/world-war-1-posters/canadian-ww1-propaganda-posters?page=1

Battles• Ypres• Somme• Vimy Ridge• Passchendaele• Hundred Days

Ypres

First Battle of Ypres Positions of the Allied and German armies, 19 October 1914

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres

Dug-outs in the Ypres Salient. July, 1916.

https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3520913&rec_nbr_list=3520913

Horse-drawn water cart at Ypres

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322596/Harrowing-tales-WWIs-bloodiest-battles-recounted-unseen-soldiers-diaries.html

Somme

Canadians at the Somme in 1916, with troops leaving front-line trenches while relief units moved in to take over.

http://www.canadaatwar.ca/content-63/world-war-i/canadians-on-the-somme/

Aerial photograph of a gas attack on the Somme battlefield using metal canisters of liquid gas. When the canisters were opened in a stiff, favourable wind, the liquid cooled into a gas and blew outwards and over the enemy lines.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/battles-and-fighting-photographs/gas-attack-on-the-somme/?back=1590&anchor=2356

Canadian Soldiers Fixing Bayonets Before An Attack On The Somme.

http://www.ww1photos.com/CEF.html

Vimy Ridge

Canadians of the 29th Infantry Battalion advance across No Man's Land through the German barbed wire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917. Most soldiers are armed with their Lee Enfield rifles, but the soldier in the middle carries a Lewis machine-gun on his shoulder.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/battles-and-fighting-photographs/canadians-advance/?back=1590&anchor=2396

A German machine-gun emplacement of reinforced concrete on the crest of Vimy Ridge, and the Canadians who seized it.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/battles-and-fighting-photographs/vimy-fortifications/?back=1590&anchor=2398

Canadian medical officers (with the Red Cross emblems on the soldiers at right and to the left rear of the photo) use German prisoners to help transport Canadian wounded from Vimy Ridge, April 1917. They use a two-tiered carrier, pulled along a light railway line leading from the front.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/battles-and-fighting-photographs/removing-casualties/?back=1590&anchor=2400

Passchendaele

Troops of the Canadian 16th Machine Gun Company hold the line in atrocious conditions on the Passchendaele front in late October or early November, 1917.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/battles-and-fighting-photographs/in-the-mud/?back=1590&anchor=2472

Canadian pioneers lay trench mats over the mud at Passchendaele, November 1917.

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/05/historic-wwi-photo-laying-trench-mats-at-passchendaele-1917/

A Canadian finds that a Boche shell has disarranged his home. Battle of Passchendaele. November, 1917.

https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3522059&rec_nbr_list=3522059&title=%28W.W.I+-+1914+-+1918%29+A+Canadian+finds+that+a+Boche+shell+has+disarranged+his+home.+Battle+of+Passchendaele.+November%2C+1917.+&ecopy=a002217

Hundred Days

Canadian troops shelter in a ditch along the Arras-Cambrai road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Hundred_Days#/media/File:Canadian_troops_on_Arras-_Cambrai_road-1918.jpg

The "Hundred Days" is a term applied to the final major period of hostilities involving the Allies, and among them the Australian Corps, on the Western Front. It was during this period that the AIF along with the Canadians, were assigned as the shock troops of a major offensive that began with the Battle of Amiens on 8th August in what was termed by General Ludendorf, the German Commander, as "der schwarze tag" or the " Black Day" of the German Army.

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/campaigns/11

Hundred days offensive (WWI) Britain and her Allies successfully inflict defeat after defeat on Germany.

http://historum.com/war-military-history/44057-most-glorious-military-victory-your-countries-history-3.html

Conscription Crisis• Military Service Act• Military Voters Act

• War Times Election Act• Union Government/General Elections 1917

Military Service Act

Military Service Act 1916.

http://www.ww1propaganda.com/ww1-poster/military-service-act-1916

http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1914/1914-09-military-service-bill.html

Military Voters Act

To increase his chances of re-election, Borden forced a bill through the House. The Military Voters Act extended the vote to all members of the armed forces, both male and female.

http://ww1tristanlondon.wikispaces.com/Military+Voters+Act

The Military Voters Act defined military voters as any active or retired member of the Canadian Armed Forces including for the first time women, Indians, and those under 21 years old. It allowed military voters to assign their vote to any riding in which they had normally been resident.

http://acitygoestowar.ca/1917-election-conscription/

War Times Election Act

This document is addressed to all women that can vote. The War Time Elections Act allowed women serving overseas, or women that were next of kin to a man serving over seas to vote.

http://wwipicturegallery.wikispaces.com/Conscription+Crisis

In 1918 with the Allies victorious, most female adult Canadians who owned property were awarded the right to vote.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.ca/2013_07_01_archive.html

Union Government/General Elections 1917

Canadian soldiers in London cast their votes in the December 1917 general election.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/objects-and-photos/photographs/home-front-photographs/election-1917/

General Election on December 17

http://vimyridgehistory.com/kit-3/gov/federal-election/news/

A soldiers ballot. Borden's party to soldiers to vote against Wilfred Laurier and the remaining liberals because they were against conscription.

http://ww1tristanlondon.wikispaces.com/Union+Government

End of the War and Peace• Paris Peace Conference• League of Nations

Paris Peace Conference

The meeting of the Allied victors following the end of WWI to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

https://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/paris-peace-conference/deck/3812716

League of Nations

League of Nations meeting at Geneva, August-September 1928, when Canada was a member of the Council

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/league-of-nations/