Famous Canadians
Marching Off to War
In Europe
In the trenches
In the End
100
After winning the 1911 elections he became the Prime Minister that would lead Canada through the First World War.
Who is Robert Borden?
100
Thousands of men, under this assumption, enthusiastically volunteered for service hoping to get to Europe before the war was over
What is a Short War?
100
The acronym used to explain the causes of the First World War.
What is MAIN?
100
The numbe of soldiers Robert Borden and Canada promised Great Britain after a harrowing visit to a war hospital.
What is 500,000 men?
200
A Canadian general during World War I, he became the first Canadian commander of the four unified divisions of the Canadian Corps. He was the first Canadian to attain the rank of full general.
Who is Sir Arthur Currie?
200
A Canadian weapon that was eventually replaced or abandoned due to quality and severe functionality issues.
What is the Ross Rifle?
200
The assassination of this man by a Serbian terrorist group sparked the First World War.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand?
200
Where the four divisions of the Canadian Corps first fought together.
What is Vimy Ridge?
200
The term used to refer to people of German, Austrian, Turkish and Ukrainian descent. A number of them were detained to work camps from 1914-1919.
What is Enemy Aliens?
300
As leader of the opposition he vowed to cooperate with the ruling party and Prime Minister in support of the Canadian war effort.
Who is Wilfred Laurier?
300
When war broke out the Canadian government passed this act, giving them sweeping power to do almost anything they deemed necessary for the defence of Canada.
What is the War Measures Act?
300
The nations that make up the Triple-Alliance
What is Great Britain, France and Russia?
300
What the land between two enemy armies' trenches was known as.
What is "no man's land" Going over the top
300
The estimated number of Canadian soldiers killed from 1914-1917.
What is 66,000?
400
Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence when the First World War broke out. He presided over the deployment of often inappropriate and dubious equipment.
Who is Sam Hughes?
400
The largest infantry regiment in the Canadian Army and the most famous francophone regiment that went to France in September 1915, and fought with distinction in every major Canadian engagement until the end of the war.
What is The Royal 22nd Regiment ("The Vandoos")?
400
Three of the countries that made up the Central Powers during the First World War.
What is Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire (Turks) and Italy?
400
The type of gas the Germans used at the Battle of Ypres when they first introduced gas warfare.
What is chlorine gas?
400
A bill passed on September 20, 1917 by the Conservative government of Robert Borden during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. While the bill was an explicit attempt to get more votes for the government, it was also the first act giving women the vote in federal elections.The act gave the vote to the wives, widows, mothers, and sisters of soldiers serving overseas.
What is the Wartime Elections Act?
500
A Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top of Canada and the British Empire.
Who is Billy Bishop?
500
When the First Canadian Expeditionary Force set sail.
What is October 1914?
500
The technique used succesfully by the Canadian forces at Vimy Ridge and throughout the war.
What is the Rolling Barrage?
500
The date known as the darkest day in Newfounland history.
What is July 1st 1916 801 Newfoundlanders went over the top in broad daylight to face the German forces firmly entrenched. Within 30 minutes the regiment would be annihilated. Only 68 would answer the roll call next day. The futures of families in a small colony of approximately 240,000 people would be changed forever.
500
The League that Canada was invited to join largely as a result of the significant contribution to the Great War.
What is the League of Nations
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