For the season finale of season 2 of Canada’s Great War, I decided to do a bit of a different episode. I am going to cover letters home, that were printed in newspapers, from 1915 to 1916, so we can get an idea of what the soldiers were feeling...
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...
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...
Around the same time that the Battle of Kitcheners’ Wood was ending for the Canadian troops, a new battle was just beginning. The Battle of St. Julien would begin on April 24, 1915. This battle would be notable for many reasons, not the least of...
Over the course of this podcast series, I will not look in depth at the various regiments and battalions that took part in the war often. Of course, with this second episode of the show, I feel I cannot continue without looking at the first group of...