The bitter harvest of war
Subtitle: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917
By: Andrew Theobald.
Contributors: New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.
Series: New Brunswick military heritage series -- v. 11
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fredericton, N.B
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780864925114
Subjects: Canada. -- Canadian Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- World War, 1914-1918.; Draft -- New Brunswick -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1914-1918 -- New Brunswick.; Conscription Crisis, 1917.; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Nouveau-Brunswick.; New Brunswick -- History -- 1867-1918.; New Brunswick -- English-French relations -- History -- 20th century.; Canada -- Histoire -- 1917 (Crise de la conscription); Nouveau-Brunswick -- Histoire -- 1867-1918.; Nouveau-Brunswick -- Relations entre anglophones et francophones -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Description: "Picture this: Canadian troops die by the thousands in the muddy fields of Europe. Russia is descending into civil war, and will soon be lost to the Allies. The French army has mutinied. The United States has declared war on Germany, but their army needs time to prepare. German U-boats are turning the seas into floating graveyards. Back in Canada, fewer and fewer men are volunteering to join the fray." "Prime Minister Borden's government proposed conscription to replace the dead and wounded. Farmers, fishermen, francophones, and the Liberal Party opposed the Military Service Act. Canada was in upheaval. Many reduced the issue to tension between pro-British Ontario and anti-war Quebec, but there was more. In New Brunswick, ruptures emerged between rural and urban, liberal and conservative, north and south, Protestant and Catholic, and French and English. The legacy of bitterness and ethnic tensions echo to this day."--Jacket.
Notes: Co-published by: New Brunswick Military Heritage Project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.