HIS263Y1 Lecture Notes - Wartime Elections Act
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Collected food, clothing, made bandages - mobilized their traditional roles. Colonize vacant lots to plant gardens - more home production used, the more the manufactured is available to the soldiers: also included exclusion. Anti-german activity, told to keep tabs on enemy aliens. Before the war they were considered desirable immigrants, superior. Hypothesized that many germans began to claim to be dutch to avoid problems. War and reform: reformers use the war to try for change. Little success before 1914 on a legislative level, most governments reluctant to make official moves with regards. Local option - can choose to go dry or not, almost always defeated in urban areas - few institute full prohibition because it"s political suicide eg. 1912 & Some of the leaders of the prohibition movement. Every province between 1916 and 1922 other thn quebec gave the right to vote (qb 1940) Some women vote in the federal vote in 1917.
