Winnipeg's Great War : a city comes of age /
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Author / Creator: | Blanchard, Jim, 1948- (Jim) |
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Imprint: | Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2010. |
Description: | 281 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8208395 |
Table of Contents:
- 1914. The coming of war ; Jewish soldiers ; Mobilizing the civilian population ; Poor women and the Patriotic Fund ; The Manitoba Red Cross ; Women's Volunteer Reserve Corps ; The IODE goes to war ; City politics in 1914 ; The 1914 election
- 1915. Recruiting the second contingent ; The Second Battle of Ypres ; The war has struck home ; Mourning the dead ; Patriotic week ; I have nothing but contempt for the man who can go but does not ; Training ; Winnipeg women in England ; City politics in 1915 ; Jitneys and the Winnipeg Electric Railway ; Provincial politics : the fall of Rodmond Roblin
- 1916. They lost their heads entirely : the Winnipeg Police and the Soldier's Riot ; It was simply Hell : the battles of 1916 ; Deserters ; The Norris government
- 1917. Wining at any cost ; Hospitals ; Conscription ; Inflexible determination ; The role of women in winning the war ; The IODE fights on
- 1918. Conscientious objectos ; Exemptions, treason, and anti-foreign hysteria ; The Jitney problem resolved ; City issues ; Labour organizing ; Memorials ; The end of the war.