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With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, werepresented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and sacrifices of those who supported those soldiers, and the war effort in general, back at home. The Frontier of Patriotism provides an in-depth look at all aspects of Alberta's involvement in the war, reflecting Albertans' experiences both on the battlefield and on the home front. Contributors of the 40 essays all draw heavily on national and local archival resources. The war is seen through the letters, diaries and memoirs of the individuals who lived through it, as well as through accounts in local newspapers.Readers will come away from this collection with a deeper appreciation of the different ways that the First World War, and its aftermath, shaped the lives of Albertans. For many, these four tumultuous years represented a time of individual valour and of communities pulling together and sacrificing for a noble cause. Yet, for others, the war left disillusionment and anger. Exploring these regional and local stories, as well as the national story, helps us understand the commonalities and distinctiveness of what it means to be Canadian. The Frontier of Patriotism is the most comprehensive treatment of Alberta during these critical, transformational years.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Timeline
Map
Section One - Albertains at War: The Military
An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War
Rod Macleod
Raymond Brutinel and the Genesiss of Modern Mechanized Warfare
Juliette Champagne and Major (Retd.) Joahn Matthews
While You Were Away: Alberta's First World War Aviation History
Patricia Myers
Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure
Kathryn Ivany
Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War
L. James Dempsey
Scattered by the Whirlwind: Alberta Chaplains and the Great War
Duff Crerar
The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914-1918
Brett Clifton
Sid Unwin's War
Michale Lang
Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War
Ryan Flavelle
The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of Alberta
Juliette Champagne
The Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War
David Borys
The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front
Adriana A. Davies
Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Raising to the Challenge
J. Robert Lampard
Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story
Antonella Fanella
Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts
Allan Kerr and Doug Styles
Section Two - The Home Front: Context and Meaning
Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916
Duff Crerar
Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War
Aritha van Herk
"O Valiant hearts who to your glory day came": Protestant Responses to Alberta's Great War
Norman Knowles
Alberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization
Adriana A. Davies
Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914
David Joseph Glalant
Edmonton's Local Heroes
Stephen Greenhalgh
Voices of War: The Press and the Personal
Jeff Keshen
From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta During the First World War
Catherine C. Cole
The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey
Peter Mckenzie-Brown
Section Three - Communities at War
The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, Alberta
Robert Rutherdale
Red Deer and the First World War
Michael Dawe
Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt
Adriana A. Davies, Sean Moir, and Anthony Worman
Calgary's Grand Theatre in the Great War
Donald B. Smith
Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus During the Great War
Jarett Henderson
Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Canada's First national Interment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association
Kassandra Luciuk
Conscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War
Amy J. Shaw
Section Four - Aftermath
War, Public Health and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta
Mark Osborne Humphries
Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta
Donald G. Wethrell
Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931
Allan Rowe
First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums
Rory Cory
Appendix: Alberta Formations Raised in the First World War
List of Contributors
Index