Public Schools
Main subjects taught at public schools
What is English, history (war studies), and geography?
What is 1920?
This Canadian-made rifle, used early in WWI, was eventually abandoned due to jamming and reliability issues in trench warfare
What is the Ross Rifle?
The post war debt
What is $2 Billion or $35 Billion adjusted to inflation?
Approximate # of casualties that occured during WWI
What is approx. 58-60k?
School activities examples
What is scrapbooks, songs, essays, speeches, and parades?
Main difference between Residential and Indian Day Schools
What is children being sent back home each day?
The year John Edward Brownlee resigned as premier
What is 1934?
True or False - The conscription crisis of 1917 led to an attempted assassination of Borden carried out by a Quebecer
What is false?
Borden and patriotic English Canadians referred to Britain as
What is “The Motherland” or “Mother Country”?
Differences in modern day jobs
What is male teachers and workers becoming soldiers, children learning war studies, shortage of modern jobs (teachers, doctors, farmers, etc), and some jobs deemed useless (food processing, construction).
What is over 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children?
Queen Marie described Joe Boyle in a 1923 letter as “a man with a wealth of love never spent”, claiming that no one knew his heart better than than she did.
The event that inspired her to write this letter
What is Joe Boyle’s death in 1923?
2 ways the Canadian government raised funds to economically fuel WWI and WWII
What is Victory Bond/War Bond campaign, Elevation of taxes, Consumable Rationing
Purpose of Canada joining WWII a week after Britain and France did, and what they trying to prove
What is proving their independence from Britain and that their declaration is an individual decision
Propaganda examples taught (min. 1)
What is intense patriotism for war, demonising enemies (Germans), imperial education (British Empire support)
Approx. how many Residential Schools and Indian Day Schools were there from 1914-1945?
The amount Vivian awarded after winning the lawsuit against Brownlee?
What is $10'000?
Canadian immigrants who come from a country that Canada was at war with were called:
Additionally, name 2 consequences and restrictions they faced
What is Enemy Aliens Required to carry identification, Mandatory checkups with officials, Hard labour in internment camps, Public disapproval and social violence?
Name 3 significant WWI battles that Canada has participated in, and describe what was significant about them. (Includes, but not limited to the ones discussed in CaPaW play and presentation)
What is the 2nd Battle of Ypres - The first major battle fought by Canada in WWI
Battle of the Somme - Deadliest battle on the Western Front
Battle of Verdun - Guarding France’s strategically important city, longest battle of WWI
Battle of Vimy Ridge - Most significant battle for Canada, all divisions fought together
Battle of Passchendaele - Fought in November 1917 under muddy and rainy environments
Hundred Days Offensive - The final stretch before the end of WW1?
Khaki University's purpose, # of people educated, and education fields
What is supporting post-war soldiers complete education (1945), around 50'000 people, and fields such as agriculture, business education, mechanics, teaching, law, and medical instruction?
Minority groups, and their perspectives on Residential Schools & concentration camps
What is Indigenous, Francophone, Ukrainian, and German children?
They did not see the war as positive, and were assimilated through "education".
This Canadian Minister of Militia fiercely defended the flawed Ross Rifle, even after widespread reports of its failure in combat
What is Sam Hughes?
The linguistic/ethnic/cultural divide that occurred in Canadian communities
Describe the conflicting ideologies did they had, and the motive of those opinions
What is Anglophone and Francophone Canadians?
They disagreed on Canada’s participation in the wars. Anglophones were for it since all of them showed loyalty to Britain and some of them included British native, and Francophones were against it as they valued the people and position of Canada itself more.
Reason behind Canada’s presence in the Paris Peace Conference being such a big turn for Canada
What Canada earned - name the act of Parliament that was caused by it
What is Canada being able to formally receive acknowledged victory in WWI?
It also got a signature independent from Britain. The Statute of Westminster (1931) followed.