Title: The bitter harvest of war
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Canada, Canada. Canadian Army, Conscription Crisis, 1917, Draft, English-French relations, Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918, Histoire, History, Recruiting, enlistment, Relations entre anglophones et francophones, World War, 1914-1918, Canada, canadian army, Draft, canada, World war, 1914-1918, canada, New brunswick, history, Canada, history
Places: Canada, New Brunswick, Nouveau-Brunswick
Time periods: 1867-1918, 1917 (Crise de la conscription), 20e siècle, 20th century, World War, 1914-1918
LC classification: UB345.C2 T48 2008