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Winnipeg's Great War : a city comes of age  Cover Image Book Book

Winnipeg's Great War : a city comes of age / Jim Blanchard.

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  • ISBN: 9780887557217 (sc.)
  • Physical Description: 281 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 > Manitoba > Winnipeg.
World War, 1914-1918.
Winnipeg (Man.) > History > 20th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction 3(6)
Chapter 1 1914
9(70)
The Coming of War
Jewish Soldiers
Mobilizing the Civilian Population
Poor Women and the Patriotic Fund
The Manitoba Red Cross
Women's Volunteer Reserve Corps
The IODE Goes to War
City Politics in 1914
The 1914 Election
Chapter 2 1915
79(70)
Recruiting the Second Contingent
The Second Battle of Ypres
"The War Has Struck Home"
Mourning the Dead
Patriotic Week
"I have nothing but contempt for the man who can go but does not"
Training
Winnipeg Women in England
City Politics in 1915
Jitneys and the Winnipeg Electric Railway
Provincial Politics ---The Fall of Rodmond Roblin
Chapter 3 1916
149(40)
"They lost their heads entirely"---The Winnipeg Police and the Soldiers' Riot
"It Was Simply Hell"-The battles of 1916
Deserters
The Norris Government
Chapter 4 1917
189(32)
Wining at any Cost
Hospitals
Conscription
Inflexible Determination
The Role of Women in Winning the War
The IODE Fights On
Chapter 5 1918
221(38)
Conscientious Objectors
Exemptions, Treason, and Anti-Foreign Hysteria
The Jitney Problem Resolved
City Issues
Labour Organizing
Memorials
The End of the War
Epilogue 259(9)
Notes 268(7)
Index 275


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