Talk:Canada in World War I

message: This article should be updated to include Canada's naval forces during the war. Although modest, Canada's naval program was of serious debate during the lead-up to the First World War and its contribution is worth mentioning. A good source is Canada's Navy: The First Century by Marc Milner, a book I'm reading now. If no one updates by the time I'm finished reading I'll update myself. OhlundFan2 (talk) 03:51, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Royal Canadian Navy

message: No offense to anyone involved in this page but it needs very serious revision. It is riddled with spelling, grammatical, and stylistic errors. --Ggbroad 00:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Writing and Grammar

message: I havn't noticed one consistent number of troops that the Canadian Army had, or how many were in active service in the war. Somebody should do some research and look into the number.
:::You see different figures in different sources. One interesting question: when do you start and stop counting? It's not like people stopped serving (or stopped dying) on November 11, 1918 (and the standard figure for losses in WWII, 42,042, for instance, is computed to the end of 1947).  The CEF recruited in 1919 and 1920. Col. Nicholson in the Official History gives a figure of 614,964  to the end of 1918 (619,636 to the end of 1920) of whom  470,224 served overseas. This is much higher percentage of overseas deployment than in WWII, incidentally. But a colleague of mine who is doing research in this area finds all sorts of cases of people enlisting, being discharged, and then enlisting again under a different name or just in the different place, so we can be sure that double counting went on, etc. So, you'll notice some recent sources - like Granatstein's "Hell's Corner" - avoids giving a precise number. Over 600,000 is a safe bet, of whom around 470,000 served overseas.--Ggbroad 14:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troop Numbers 

message: i found these numbers in one of the links and find they should be included in the article on WW1
"For a nation of eight million people Canada's war effort was remarkable. A total of 619,636 men and women served in the Canadian forces in the First World War, and of these 66,655 gave their lives and another 172,950 were wounded. Nearly one of every ten Canadians who fought in the war did not return."
 
::That number 619,636 is the number who served in the CEF to the end of 1920, not just during the war. It doesn't include Canadians who served in, for instance, the RFC but never the CEF or Canadians who fought in other armed forces. I wonder. Is it really a "remarkable" effort for a nation of 8 million? It's a mobilization rate of about 8%.
I should think 8% is pretty good indeed for a mobilization rate even with conscription later in the war. I don't know what the population of the United States was in 1941, but I should be very surprised indeed if 8% of the American population was in uniform during WWII. Tim from Canada  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.73.131.132 (talk) 23:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  numbers 

message: Were Canadian aboriginals ever formally forbidden to serve at the beginning of WWI or even put into special battalions? They certainly served in regular New Brunswick regiments and battalions and I have never seen a newspaper article from the period questioning their right to be there. Tim from Canada  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.73.131.132 (talk) 23:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aboriginals 

message: This article is missing many key dates. When did Canadian troops first arrive? What was the date of the first battle? The furst casualty?77Mike77 (talk) 18:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates? 

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – MaterialWorks 22:21, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Military history of Canada during World War I →  – The history article covering WW2 has already been moved to Canada in World War II. Moving this article would add consistency, and be more concise. ARandomName123 (talk) 20:32, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
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