Important People

Robert Borden – Prime Minister of Canada. His role in conscription was a failure, it created a division between the French and English and only 24000 conscripts saw action in Europe

Billy Bishop – Ace pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force credited with 170 air battles and 72 enemy aircraft kills.

Sam Hughes – Minister of militia. He was responsible for mobilizing the Canadian troops at the beginning of the war and the creation of Camp Valcartier. He insisted on the use of Ross rifles which were useless on the battlefield.

John McCrae – A brigade surgeon in WWI famous for his poem “In Flanders’s Field”.

Fredrick Banting – A medic in the Canadian Medical Corps who advanced through shellfire to attend to several wounded men in a Canadian battalion despite being wounded him self. He was awarded the Military Cross.

Important Events

Treaty of Versailles – The treaty signed at the end of World War One which created the League of Nations and forced Germany to pay all reparations of the war.

League of Nations – A league created to guarantee the peace and to punish aggressive nations.

Enemy Aliens – A title given to immigrants in Canada who have not received Canadian Citizenship and whose parent nation is at war with Canada. They were rounded up and forced into internment camps.

Triple Entente – An alliance between Britain, France, and Russia to ensure their safety, and because of the alliances Britain and France were dragged into the war.

Triple Alliance – An alliance between Germany and the Central Powers.

Vimy Ridge – The high point of Canadian military achievement. The Canadian Corps managed to take the heavily fortified Vimy Ridge while no other forces were able to. Vimy Ridge showed the world that Canada was a major part of World War One and Arthur Currie was promoted to the first commander of the Canadian Corps.

Trench Warfare – Armed combat conducted from trenches dug to provide protection in open areas. Used excessively during WWI. It made the war drag on with out much progress from either side as the trenches were hard to penetrate.