First, we are going to talk about the importance of agriculture in Canada at the start of the First World War.With so many men and women leaving their properties and traveling to other parts of the country, and into Europe, this presented a very...
Donate to Canadian History Ehx at With Canadians entering into the Battle of the Somme in September at the Battle of Courcelette, they would be thrown back into the fray after several German victories at various locations along the front. This led...
Throughout the First World War, Canadians who had moved to Canada prior to the war from Austria, Hungary, Ukraine and Germany found their lives severely limited and changed due to war hysteria. For a few, they not only lost rights such as the...
Few individuals in the First World War have been as romanticized as the pilots who took to the air. The Flying Aces as they were known took a new form of warfare and became icons, celebrities and heroes. The most famous Flying Ace of them all was...
Library and Archives Canada – 3404741 You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at For two and a half months, the terrible Battle of the Somme had been fought on the Western Front but at this point, beyond the Newfoundlanders, there...
We are going to shift things now, from Canadian troops to Newfoundland troops with our battles of the First World War for Canada. While it is true that Newfoundland did not join Canada until 1949, I am including the battles that Newfoundland took...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at It was along a ridge that Canadian troops would come to Mount Sorrel, a small hill that rose 98 feet into the air, but provided a clear vantage point over the surrounding area. The force that...
My original plan was to have an episode about the war effort and propaganda, but I realized that coming off the war effort at home, there would be a lot of similarities, so I decided to push that episode down a little, and instead focus on something...
Today, we are traveling back home to Canada to look at the war effort in Canada. Primarily I will be focusing on the things regular citizens, with help from the government, did to aid the war effort and help soldiers overseas. In 1914, as war fever...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at One of the most important political leaders for Canada during the first part of the First World War was a charming, somewhat vain and colourful man named Samuel Hughes. With his extremely...