History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: National Resources Mobilization Act, War Measures Act, Beveridge Report
2 May 2018
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Canada and WWII
Lecture Breakdown:
➢ Part I: War Abroad: Meanings and Implications Part II: Political Implications of WWII
Part III: Women and the War effort
Part IV: Minorities and the War
Part I: War Abroad: Meanings and Implications
- August 19, 1942 - Dieppe aka Operation Jubilee
o The role of Assault Troops
o Behind Schedule, Poor timing and poor communication: a legacy re-examined?
- June 6, 1944 - D-Day
o Canadian Army units in the Normandy landings
o Juno beach assault
o Legacy and implications
Part II: Political Implications of WWII
Wartime restrictions
- War Measures Act and Internment camps
- National Resources Mobilization Act
- Conscription Crisis 1942 and 1944
The rise of the social welfare state
- Cabinet Committee on Demobilization and Re-establishment
- Committee on Reconstruction
- Marsh Report
- White paper on Employment and Income
- Federal Election, June 1945
Names and Terms: Ian Mackenzie, Leonard Marsh, William Beveridge, Keynesian economics,
Industrial Development Bank, Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction (July 1945).
Part III: Women and the War effort
- Women and the labour force
- Women in the armed forces
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Part IV: Minorities and the War
- Chinese, Japanese and African Canadians
2. From Dieppe to D-ay continued
- D-Day June 6, 1944
o Landed in darkness unlike with Dieppe
o Rough waters and terrible weather
o Bombing in advance; parachutists behind enemy lines
o Juno Beach assault
▪ 3rd Canadian division
• Under the comman of a british lieutenant general
• Did not lead but were still central to the british effort
o 155,000 soldiers involved, 5,000 allied ships, 50,000 vehicles and 11,000 planes
▪ Canada: 14,000 canadian soldires landed on the beach
▪ Another 450 were dropped behind enemy lines
▪ 5020 canadians killed at the ed of the day
o A representative regional effort
▪ 5 beaches involved in the entire landing
▪ Canada responsible for Juno
- 1.1 million Canadians served in WW1
o 18,000 Casualties (Canadians)
3. Politics and WWII
- Enlistment stats
- Conscription crisis in 1917 deeply divided Canadians
- English Canadians immediately in favour of sending troops
o French canada not so much
- PM King worried about dividing the country
o Promised there would be no conscription, in 1939, during provincial Quebec
elections
- 1940 National Resources Mobilizations Act (NRMA) + zombies
o Designed to conscript for home defense
o Training them in Canada
o Original men were single
o A balancing act
o 60,000 conscripted under the act
o 35% were French Canadians
o Quebec had a 50% less participation rate
▪ Significant enthusiasm with ON volunteers vs Quebec
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