1. WW1 Document Gallery
By Ryan Parmelee

2. Victory Bonds and Income Tax
Home Front
War Measures Act
Internment Camps
Economy
Victory Bonds and Income Tax
Role of Women
Propaganda

3. War Measures Act

4. Poster Demanding Registration of Alien Enemies in Canada
Source unknown.

5. The War Measures Act was passed unopposed in 1914
The War Measures Act was passed unopposed in 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.

6. Internment Camps

7. The German Internment Camp at Edgewood during WWI

8. Germans in a internment camp during world war one

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

10. Economy

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

12. 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.

13. Farm Life in Canada

14. Victory Bonds and Income Tax

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

16. Income War Tax Act 1917

17. Role of Women

18. Canadian nurses during World War I (Ward 33)

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

20. Women sorting through ammunition during WWI

21. Propaganda

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

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

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

25. Battles
Ypres
Somme
Vimy Ridge
Passchendaele
Hundred Days

26. Ypres

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

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

29. Horse-drawn water cart at Ypres

30. Somme

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

32. 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.

33. Canadian Soldiers Fixing Bayonets Before An Attack On The Somme.

34. Vimy Ridge

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

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

37. 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 They use a two-tiered carrier, pulled along a light railway line leading from the front.

38. Passchendaele

39. 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.

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

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

42. Hundred Days

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

44. 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.

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

46. Union Government/General Elections 1917
Conscription Crisis
Military Service Act
Military Voters Act
War Times Election Act
Union Government/General Elections 1917

47. Military Service Act

48. Military Service Act 1916.

50. Military Voters Act

51. 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.

52. 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.

53. War Times Election Act

54. This document is addressed to all women that can vote
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.

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

56. Union Government/General Elections 1917

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

58. General Election on December 17

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

60. Paris Peace Conference
End of the War and Peace
Paris Peace Conference
League of Nations

61. Paris Peace Conference

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

63. League of Nations

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