A Canadian perspective, from the Legion's Legacies. See Internment), and pressured Berlin, Ontario, to rename itself Kitchener. (See Wartime Home Front and Canadian Children and the Great War.) In patriotic fervour, Canadians demanded that Germans and Austrians be dismissed from their jobs and interned Churches, charities, women's organizations, and the Red Cross found ways to "do their bit" for the war effort. ![]() A Military Hospitals CommissionĬared for the sick and wounded. The Canadian Patriotic Fund collected money to support soldiers' families. Much of Canada's war effort was launched by volunteers. On 3 October, the First Contingent of 30,617 men sailed for England. Minister of Militia Sam Hughes summoned 25,000 volunteers to train at a new camp at Valcartier near Québec ![]() The Liberal opposition urged Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden’s Conservative government to take sweeping powers under the new War Measures Act.
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