Readings and Discussion Schedule
The following book is on two hour reserve and contains required readings:
CATFWW - MacKenzie, ed., Canada and the First World War (2005)
The following book is available online
through the library and contains required readings:
VR - Hayes, et al, eds., Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (2007)
January 6 Introduction
January 8 Reading a CEF Service file: Entry points.
January 13 Canada and the Beginning of the War
January 15
Movie: Baptism of Fire
Discussion Questions
First Assignment Due
January 20 Home Front: Initial Reactions
January 22 Home Front: Initial Reactions
Winter, "On
Total War"
"No
More Canadians for Overseas Service..."
Herridge,
"The Call of the
War"
Borden on Military Preparedness, 1914
Borden,
"Canada and
the Great War"
Donovan,
"Canadian Resources and Responsibilities"
Connor,
"...Canadians Respond to War...."
Palmer,
"The Maple
Leaf Folk"
Ontario's
Reaction to the War
Discussion Questions
January 27 The Soldier Experience
Letter, John Sudbury, May 7, 1916
Memoir of John Sudbury
Foot, "...Rum a Combat
Motivator...."
Peat, Experiences at the
Front(1918)
Letter, Matier, January 8, 1918
Letter, William Bell,
February 4, 1917
Letter, Jack
Brown, January 3, 1918
Cook, "The Politics of
Surrender"
Discussion Questions
January 29 Movie: Slaughter in the Mud
February 3 Women, Propaganda, and the Home Front
Women's Letters from World War One
Sangster, "Mobilizing Women for War" (CATFWW, pp. 157-193)
` Pankhurst, "The
War...."
The 123rd Battalion Recruiting Leaflet
Van Koughnet,
"Some of the War Work...."
Young Canada Looks at the War
"A Message to the Boys and
Girls of Canada"
Win the War Recipes
The Globe, "Social Reactions of the
War"
The Income War Tax Act, 1917
Discussion Questions
February 5 The Canadian Record
Copp, "The Military Effort, 1914-1918" (CATFWW, pp. 35-61)
Discussion Questions
February 10 No Class - BC Family Day holiday
February 12 Vimy Ridge (L)
February 17 Movie: Storming the Ridge
February 19 Vimy: Perspectives
Sheffield, "Vimy Ridge and The Battle of Arras" (VR, pp. 15-29)
Dickson, "The End of the Beginning", (VR, pp. 31-49)
Vance, "Battle Verse...", (VR, pp.265-278)
Letters From Vimy
Discussion Questions
February 24 No Class - Study Break
February 26 No Class - Study Break
March 3 Passchendaele Perspectives
Brown, "Not
Glamorous But Effective..." (pdf)
Passchendaele: Canada's Other Vimy Ridge (pdf)
Discussion Questions
March 5 Passchendaele Perspectives
March 10 Film as History: Passchendaele
March 12 Film as History: Passchendaele
March 17 War and National Unity
Conscription
Crisis of 1917
The Wartime
Elections Act
Avery, "Ethnic and Class Relations..." (CATFWW, pp.
272-299)
"First World War Errors Unearthed"
(2007)
The Enemy Alien Registration Act
Luciuk, "Injustice
Beneath the Grass...."
Luciuk, "A Time for
Atonement..."
Maceluch, "How Ukrainians were
Exiled...."
Walker, "Race
and Recruitment in World War One..." (pdf)
Moses, "Aboriginal
Participation...."
Discusssion Questions
March 19 The Last 100 Days
March 24 Aftermath: Remembrance, Memory, and Commemoration
Todd, "The Meaning of
Rehabilitation"
Pierce,
"Constructing Memory"
March 26 Aftermath: Remembrance, Memory, and Commemoration
F.G. Scott, The Significance of
Vimy
Vimy Ridge Memorial Unveiled (CBC)
The Canadian War Memorials Fund
Paintings from the Canadian War Memorials Fund
CWGC - France
CWGC - Ypres Salient
Jay Winter on World War One Today
Remembrance Day
In Flanders Fields
Vance, "Remembering Armegeddon" (CATFWW,
pp 409-434)
Hucker, "After the Agony in Stony Places.." (VR,pp. 279-290)
Discussion Questions
March 31 Student Presentations
April 2 Student Presentations
April 7 Student Presentations
April 9 Student Presentations