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Draft announcing the proclamation of the War Measures Act. Edited by Romeo LeBlanc. Forms from the Military Service Act of 1917. On the left is the order to report for duty, a form that would have been sent a conscripted man. On the right is the certificate which would have been issued to a successful applicant for exemption. Approximately half of the men registered under the Military Service Act, were granted exemptions, mostly for occupational reasons, including agricultural or other essential work.

A picture of the "alien enemies" arriving at the Petawawa Internment Camp. During the war more then 8,500 immigrants from "enemy" countries were placed in internment camps across Canada.

Immigrants being forced to work at the Petawawa Internment Camp during the war. Many labour bosses in Canada layed off immigrant workers and hired Canadian born workers in attempt to be patriotic.

A picture of internees being marched off to dinner at the Petawawa Internment Camp. German internees had the best meals and living conditions.

A picture of a typical recruiting office in Canada during the first world war. Some men enlisted in the war because of the steady wages that could be earned in the army.

A picture of the scene outside of the "Star" office on August 4th, 1914 when Britian officially declaired war on Germany. People were happy about the war starting because that meant that everyone would have steady employment and it would put and end to the depression in 1914.

A poster issued by the Imperial Munitions Board of Canada to advise munitioins workers of the potentially deadly effects of poor quality work.

__**Victory Bonds:**__
A poster trying to influence Canadians to buy Victory Bonds to help their Canadian troops and lend money to the war.

A poster during the war encouraging Candians to buy Victory Bonds. People would buy Victory Bonds to help fund the military, then they would get payed the money back after the war.

__**Roll of Women:**__
Picture was taken at a canadian school for the blind, the women in the picture are kintting and sewing items that will be shipped overseas to the front.

Final Weighing of Cordite. The Energite Explosives Co. Increased industrial production and the need for men in combat created demand for labour so women worked in munitions factories and other typically male jobs.

Women workers in the St. Malo Dominion Arsenal plant, 1942

__**Propaganda:**__
A propaganda poster during the war that encouraged woman to let their husbands, fathers, sons and friends actually go to war and contribute to the country.

A simple propaganda poster saying how the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve wants men to join today to help fight in the war.

another propaganda poster targeting at men and using guilt saying that your friends are out there fighting for their country, so why aren't you? Propaganda posters were used to influence the way people thought or to inspire and spread particular beliefs or opinions.

=__Battles__=

**__Ypres:__**
Two soldiers wearing gas masks in the Battle of Ypres. This battle was the introduction of the use of Chlorine Gas.

These maps show the positions of the battalions and brigades of the Canadian Division and other units at four points during the Battle of Ypres. The red lines representing the Canadian position show how they withstood the German attack and kept the city of Ypres in allied hands.

War artist Richard Jack portrays the Canadian stand during the battle of Ypres. This is an iconic piece of work from World War 1.

__**The Somme:**__
One of the signifigant parts of the battle of The Somme was the introduction of the tank. This tank only managed to advance about 100 meters into no man's land before it became mired in the mud and abandoned by it's crew. These first tanks were very slow and highly susceptible to mechanical break down, muddy ground and enemy artillery fire.

This pictures shows the start of The Somme bombardment. The bombardment lasted a week and was intended to obliterate German defences and defenders. The artist, William Topham, depicts high explosive shells and white shrapnel over the enemy lines, and provides a detailed description of it's location.

An aerial photograph of a gas attack on The Somme battlefield. Strong concentrations of gas could overwhelm respirators, but a change of wind could also reverse the cloud, which then gassed ones own troops.

This painting was was painted by Richard Jack, the first official war artist appointed in 1996. in this painting he depicts the crew of an 18-pounder field gun firing at German positions on Vimy Ridge.

This aerial photograph illustrates the major trench lines around an unknown sector on Vimy Ridge. The large craters,were made from mine explosions set off by Canadian engineers prior to and during the assault of 9 April 1917.Mines could create great confusion and blow huge gaps in an enemy's defences, but they were also significant obstacles for advancing troops.

In this nighttime photo taken from behind Canadian lines at Vimy Ridge, a British naval gun fires in support of the Canadian attack.Approximately 1,000 Allied guns and mortars pounded the ridge prior to the assault, a period called by the German defenders the "week of suffering."

__**Passchendaele:**__
The mud at Passchendaele slowed all movement to a crawl, and left advancing troops exposed to enemy fire for longer periods of time during attacks.

German prisoners help to carry wounded Canadians away from the front, while Canadians bring forward duckboards or "trench mats," made of wood overlaid with wire mesh. The duckboards were used as flooring or footpaths in the muddy quagmire.

The Germans at Passchendaele based their defence on mutually-supporting strong points with machine-guns and small numbers of troops, often anchored around steel-reinforced cement blockhouses.The effectiveness of Allied artillery and assault tactics had led them to abandon linear, more heavily trenched lines in favour of this more elastic system. The Canadians captured this fortification during the Battle of Passchendaele in October and November 1917.

Canadian ammunition limbers on the devastated Arras-Cambrai road during the Battle of Arras in late August 1918. At the front, almost all ammunition and supply transport was horse-drawn. There were few vehicles or undamaged roads.

These Canadian supply units are crossing the dry bed of the Canal du Nord. The wrecked bridge in the background was deliberately destroyed by the Germans, while the dead Canadian in the foreground is grim testimony to the recent fighting.

Telegram to units of the 3rd Canadian Division informing them of the Armistice to take effect at 11 a.m. on November 11th1918. Mons was liberated around 6:00 a.m. on 11 November and, along other parts of the front, several Canadian infantry battalions were fighting German troops up until the last hour before the Armistice.

Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie and other Canadian officers taking the salute in the Grand Place, Mons, Belgium on November 11th 1918.

=__Conscription Crisis:__= = =

A poster advertising Great Britain's Military Service Act of 1916, which invoked conscription for all men, ages 18 to 41.

This pamphlet informed voters that under the Military Service Act families who had already contributed someone to military service would be considered for exemption.

A wounded Canadian soldier casts his vote in the December 1917 election at a Canadian hospital in France.

This document defines the term "military elector" and instructs voters who to cast their ballots to. Overseas soldiers were given the option of placing their vote for a candidate in their riding, or simply allowing the party to assign it.

Canadian soldiers cast their vote in the December 1917 general election.

**__War Time Elections Act:__**
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The War Time Elections Act granted the vote to woman related to servicemen and cancelled the vote for conscientious objectors and immigrants from enemy countries.

This is a picture of the mother of Private Marin Cochet. She would have been aloud to vote during the war because her son was serving as a soldier.

This picture is of the prime minister at the time, Sir Robert Borden. He was able to sway some Liberals who wanted conscription to join him in forming a wartime Union Government, which was the coalition government formed by Conservatives.

Leaflet urging a yes vote for conscription. The reverse of the card warns the reader, "Before you cast your vote think what the Kaiser would like it to be." The Allied press and propaganda demonized the Kaiser, Germany's king, as a warlord. The pro-conscription forces ultimately proved successful in Canada's 1917 election.

__**1917 General Election:**__
This document is a letter strongly suggesting Canadian soldiers to vote for Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party. Conscription became the primary issue of the 1917 election, which pitted Laurier's Liberals against Sir Robert Borden's Unionists.

Another appeal to the Canadian soldiers to vote for Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party. The document highlights Conservative wartime profiteering scandals and assures soldiers that Laurier would provide more honest government.

=__End of the War and Peace__=

In this picture, the allies, the victors, gathered around the conference table to discuss peace treadies and to divide the spoils.
 * __Paris Peace Conference:__**

__** League of Nations: **__
This pictures shows O.D. Skelton, Philippe Roy, Raoul Dandurand, Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King, Charles Dunning and W.A. Riddell. The delegation that took their rightful spot at the League of Nations. = =

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