The war is in full swing now, and Canadian soldiers are being shipped off as soon as you can say “accepted!” The trouble is that the army is quickly running out of young men to fight. The remaining men are too old, married, have health problems, or are of a different ethnic background. It isn’t a matter of whether or not Canada has enough men, but to the government, it’s the fact that Canada doesn’t have enough white men.
Secondly, in the Province of Canada, the government had difficulty reaching agreement, because there was no party that could have majority support. Sir John A. Macdonald believed and told them that if they joined together, this political deadlock would be solved. In addition, the inter-colony railroad was very important to Canada, because it could send the military out to where it was needed quickly. It would also be a way of trading goods hastily. Manufacturing and coal producing areas of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton saw an advantage to allow their goods to get to markets much faster because of the railroad.
THE PRECONCEIVED LEGACY OF THE WAR OF 1812 Sumbul Vallani 100887480 Oct. 26th, 2012 TA: Sinead Cox Time: 4:00pm HIST 1300-A Professor Bruce S. Elliott James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages once said, “The War of 1812 is a decisive event in our country’s history”. However, some of the achievements and failures of these intertwined battles are not significant to all its participants. In general, it is seen as the “forgotten war” among its key players, the U.S. and Britain specifically. In Canada, the war is still detected in history, but not with a lot of detail on our nation’s accomplishments; it is more focused on our loyalty to the British and how closely Canada was allied. It is odd, since in modern society, both the British and Americans commonly fail to acknowledge the great struggles conquered throughout the war.
‘Conscies’ as they were known in the time of war would refuse to fight because of several reasons. Either, they were against war and killing other people, they didn’t believe that Germany was their real enemy, or because of their religious beliefs. Overall, it must have taken great courage to refuse to serve a country which every other citizen is. What also shows their bravery was that in 1916, a conscription was made saying that every made had to ‘do their bit’ in helping Britain through the war. There were some who offered to work in the background, but most refused to even get involved.
ISU Phase One Boer War What I Know The topic I have chosen is the Boer War. I know that the war took place in South Africa and was between the British Empire and their comrades against the Boer people that had Danish background. The causes of the war were very complex it was built up tension over many years. Canadians were in a dilemma the Canadian prime minister at the time did not want to enter the war but there was much pressure dorm the English in Canada to help their native country. So Canada made a deal with the British they had to pay the Canadian troops at return then home at the end of the war.
Wilfred Laurier and the Canadian government did not want to get drawn into the Boer war, but was pressured by the British government, as well as Many English speaking Canadians. Many people felt that if Canada joined the fight they would be taken seriously as a country internationally. On the other hand French Canadians did not want to be involved because they felt no loyalty to the Queen. They felt for the Boers because they knew to what it was like to be oppressed buy the British. Laurier chose on sending in the Canadian Infantry and Calvary, who took an important part in several of the battles involved and calmed down the situation at home.
He merely states what he has seen. Soldiers on the frontline soon began coming home as they wanted to become landowners. This was because when the Tsar was in power, he took land away from peasants so it could be used for things other than the growth of food for people who were in desperate need of it. Consequently, the Russian army were now struggling in maintaining to put up a strong fight in the war. The morale on the frontline was low and all soldiers had lost determination after hearing Kerensky had made the sudden decision of keeping Russia fighting in the war, for no other reason than to keep in alliance with other countries, this is identified through source 31, a Provisional Government minister explaining why Russia should stay in the war “The PG should do nothing
It can be very hard sometimes to take classes because of the military. It is a 24/7 job and a lot of times we get called in to do something while were in class, but we cannot let this deter us from bettering ourselves through education. Another question that many people ask is “why is education important to us?” especially those of us in the military. I know many people would say, “Well you joined the military so you wouldn’t have to go to school.” That is not entirely true. There are a few individuals who join the military to stay away from school but education should be an important step in everybody’s life path.
It’s almost like we put them in these places so we don’t have to deal with them as much. In my opinion this is a form of racism. Racism is something that is rapid throughout the world. But out of all the places in the world a person would think things like racism would be very minimal in a place like Canada; this is not the case at all. Canadians have been trying to overrule Aboriginals beliefs for years.
They were not given much basic needs, leading to some prisoner to illness and even death. Even though Canada was not getting enough military enlistment during the First World War, the Canadian governments barred Ukrainian-Canadians from enlisting. For these reasons, Canada discriminated its own Ukrainian-Canadians. The last case of “unjust” society in Canada is the treatment toward the Chinese-Canada. The Chinese have contributed countless of efforts to build one of most important asset of the country, the Canadian Pacific Railways.