HIST 325 Lecture Notes - Cenotaph, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Edward Viii
Document Summary
Review: wartime votes and women and temperance/ prohibition. 1917: wartime elections act and military voters act & military service (conscription) act unpopular because by then all those who wanted to participate were already in the war and those who didn"t want to join were then conscripted. Women"s suffrage campaigns: votes for women and wwi federal vote for women 1918 (provincially beginning 1916; patterns) temperance starting well before wwi (linked to women"s sufrage0 and eventually, federal and provincial prohibition, in wartime; vs. in us. Quebec (always against prohibition & votes for women-held out provincially) being out of sync with rest of canada re: war enlistment prohibition and votes for women the political fallout for future elections farmers, quebecers started forming own parties. Skewed those who joined war were mainly of british descent. How canadians made sense of the great war post war (english-speaking canada) That mark our place; and in the sky. Loved and were loved, and now we lie.
