HOME FRONT BEFORE WAR RECESSION 1914 CANADA RURAL, DEPENDENT ON EXPORTING NATURAL RESOURCES, NOT FACTORY FINISHED GOODS…NOT INDUSTRIALIZED DURING WAR THOUSANDS OF FACTORIES BUILT TO MAKE WEAPONS, MUNITIONS, WAR MATERIAL PEOPLE FLOCK TO CITIES TO WORK THERE

CANADA PROVIDED 1/3 RD OF ALL BRITISH SHELLS BUILT THOSE 700 SHIPS EXPORT FOOD, MINERALS, METALS, AND FINISHED GOODS CDN INDUSTRY EXPANDS 600% DURING WAR WE KEPT MUCH OF THIS TRADING AFTER WAR WWI LEADS TO INDUSTRIALIZATION IN CANADA, URBANIZATION IN CANADA, AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT TO MOVE PRODUCTS

MOST CDNS HAD SOMEONE IN THE ARMED FORCES THOSE THAT DIDN’T ALSO SACRIFICED FOR THE WAR EFFORT FOOD RATIONING TO ALLOW FOOD TO BE SENT OVERSEAS PETROL RATIONING AS WELL RECYCLING MANDATORY CHILDREN AND WOMEN PICK UP SLACK OF MISSING 600,000 MEN

1918 DST INTRODUCED TO SAVE MONEY 1917 INCOME TAX ACT TO RAISE MONEY LUXURY TAX INTRODUCED ON TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, COFFEE ETC WAR BONDS SOLD, CENSORSHIP, PROPAGANDA WOMEN RECRUITED MEN, VOLUNTEERED TO MAKE THINGS FOR SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT KNITTING CLUBS, BOUGHT PRESENTS FOR SOLDIERS ETC

MINORITIES IN THE WAR CANADA RACIST AT THE TIME SO LITTLE CONTRIBUTION SOUGHT BY MINORITIES STILL THEY VOLUNTEERED 35% OF ELIGIBLE NATIVES VOLUNTEERED, DESPITE LOSING STATUS IF THEY MOVED OFF RESERVATION AFRICAN, ASIAN CDNS SERVED MOSTLY AS CONSTRUCTION BATTALIONS EVENTUALLY MOST DID SERVE (VIMY)

DURING WAR ENEMY ALIENS HAD THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS CURTAILED IMMIGRANTS FROM AUS-HUN AND GERMANY WATCHED CLOSELY SOME DETAINED, ALTHOUGH NOT LIKE THE JAPANESE OF WWII WAR MEASURES ACT, LIMITS RIGHTS OF ALL CANADIANS

HALIFAX EXPLOSION PERHAPS THE BIGGEST HOME FRONT EVENT WAS THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION CENTER OF CONVOY ACTIVITY TO ENGLAND LARGEST MAN MADE EXPLOSION OF ALL TIME THAT IS NON NUCLEAR

DEC 6, 1917 MONT BLANC FRENCH MUNITIONS SHIP 35 TONS OF BENZOL, 200 TONS OF TNT, 2300 TONS OF PICRIC ACID AND 10 TONS OF GUN COTTON OUTSIDE HALIFAX HARBOUR DAY BEFORE, BUT MISSED ENTRY BECAUSE OF SUB NETS IMO NORWEGIAN SHIP TRYING TO LEAVE HARBOUR DAY BEFORE BUT STUCK BY NETS IMO WAS RELIEF SHIP FOR BELGIUM

ON MORNING OF 6 TH NETS GO UP AND MONT BLANC RACES IN WHILE IMO RACES OUT THIRD SHIP INVOLVED AS IMO FORCED TO GO PORT TO AVOID SHOULD HAVE MOVED BACK TO STARBOARD, BUT DIDN’T BOTH HEADING TOWARDS EACH OTHER, WHISTLES BLOW, NO ONE MOVES AT LAST MINUTE MONT BLANC HARD TO PORT, IMO FULL REVERSE (CAVITATIONS)

8:30 SHIPS COLLIDE, SPARKS, MONT BLANC ON FIRE CREW ABANDON, WARN CITIZENS WHO REMAIN WATCHING THE SHIP BURN WATCHED FROM INSIDE, AS COLD MONT BLANC DRIFTED IMO GROUNDED ON DARTMOUTH SIDE VINCENT COLEMAN SAVES HUNDREDS MOST DON’T SEE DANGER

9:06 MONT BLANC BLOWS UP WINDOWS RATTLE IN TRURO, PEI BLAST FELT 60 MILES AWAY THE HALF TON ANCHOR OF MONT BLANC LAUNCHED TWO MILES HARBOUR SUCKED DRY, THEN TSUNAMI HITS HALIFAX NORTH END OF HALIFAX FLATTENED 1963 PEOPLE DIED, 9,000 WOUNDED 1600 BUILDINGS DESTROYED, 50 MILLION IN DAMAGES BOSTON COMES TO OUR AID, HARVARD MED STUDENTS

WINTER STORM HITS NEXT DAY AND MANY FREEZE TUG BOAT TRIED TO PULL IT OUT OF HARBOUR AND THE CREW DIED IN EFFORT LAUNCH OF NIOBE TRIED TO SCUTTLE SHIP, ALSO KILLED THOUGHT GERMAN SABOTAGE, BUT NOT TRUE THOUGHT GERMAN SUBMARINE, BUT NOT TRUE IN THE END THE ONLY PERSON BLAMED IS THE HALIFAX SAILOR WHO WAS GUIDING MONT BLANC INTO HARBOUR

JUST AFTER THE EXPLOSION MUSHROOM CLOUD 3 KILOTON EXPLOSION HIROSHIMA WAS 13

IMO AFTER THE EXPLOSION

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