1. AGENDA Read pp 32-34 L2 Canada’s Response WWI Simulation (30 Mins)
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2. Canada’s Response
Although Canada had become independent in 1867, Britain still controlled the foreign policy of all its dominions
Which meant that when Britain declared war on Germany, Canada, along with the rest of the British Empire, was automatically at war.

3. Canada’s Response
Prime Minister Robert Borden offered Britain 25,000 troops,
More than 30,000 volunteers from across Canada signed up within the first month!

4. Not all Canadians were allowed to participate in the war.
Women were encouraged to support the war effort at home.
Initially the Canadian forces did not accept Aboriginal people, and they were reluctant to take African and Japanese Canadians
Women: Those who did join the services were limited to jobs as nurses and ambulance drivers

5. Reasons for joining?
Most believed that the war would be short and that they would be home for Christmas.
Some were looking for an exciting adventure, and maybe even a chance to be heroes upon their return. .
Others had no job and thought it would be a chance to escape financial hardships at home.
Still others felt the patriotic urge to defend their mother country
In today’s dollars, $1 = $22

6. Volunteers formed the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF).
National Identity
Volunteers formed the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF).
CEF fought as a separate Canadian unit
Wartime training brought diverse Canadians together as a group…they began to develop a national identity, a sense of being Canadian.

7. Sam Hughes was also in charge of Canada’s armament industry.
War on the Home Front
Sam Hughes was also in charge of Canada’s armament industry.
Canada’s manufacturing was inefficient under Hughes and he was dismissed in 1916 due to poor quality.

8. The War Measures Act
Granted the Canadian government the authority to do everything necessary “for the security, defence, peace, order, and welfare of Canada.”
Introduced by Prime Minister Borden almost immediately after war was declared.

9. What the War Measures act could do to your rights!
Intervene directly in:
Habeas corpus, the right of a person under arrest to be brought before a judge to determine the lawfulness of the arrest, was suspended.
Police had the power to detain people without laying charges.
Other thinsg it intervened in?
The economy
Transportation
Manufacturing
Trade
Agricultural Production
Censoring Mail

10. War Measures Act
Anyone suspected of being an enemy alien or a threat to the government could be imprisoned, or deported, or both.
Recent immigrants from Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were treated harshly were held in internment camps.

11. WW1 SIMULATION GAME

12. GB – allied w Russia, Serbia, Belgium and France
FRANCE - allied w Britain, Russia and Belgium
ITALY - allied w AH
GERMANY - allied w Italy and AH
SERBIA - allied w Russia, Belgium and GB
BELGIUM - allied w GB, Russia, Serbia and France
AUSTRIA HUNGARY - allied w Italy and Germany
RUSSIA - allied w Serbia, France, Belgium and GB

13. REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT
Discuss who has made alliances with who, and what you feel about the state of Europe in 1914.
Also reflect on the difficulty in forming alliances.