Events from the year 1918 in Canada.

1918
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Canada

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John McCrae in uniform, circa 1914

Historical documents

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Federal vote goes to women who are British subjects (by birth or marriage) and not disqualified by "race, blood or original nationality"[5]

British prime minister Lloyd George details British war aims, including liberation and self-determination of nations[6]

What Quebec wants is respect from "Anglo-Canadians" for French language, Roman Catholicism and French traditions and ideals (like love of Canada)[7]

Ontario women recruited for summer work in food production[8]

Saskatchewan Victoria Cross winner Hugh Cairns cited for "most conspicuous bravery[9]

His brother describes presentation of Victoria Cross to George Pearkes, "looking a very fine soldier indeed"[10]

Account of Canadian cavalry action resulting in Victoria Cross award for Gordon Flowerdew[11]

Shot-down pilot describes jumping from his falling plane despite bullet wounds and burns[12]

Canadian soldier describes his psychological strain[13]

Folksy Canadian enjoys leave in Paris, despite street crime[14]

Soldier appreciates "toothsomeness" of Christmas treats after living on hardtack and bully beef[15]

U.S. soldier newspaper salutes Canadian forces, but confuses Victoria Day and Dominion Day[16]

Saint John Housewives' League and War Gardens Association exhibit their prowess and patriotism in competitive exhibitions[17]

Rundown of Canada's war effort in military manpower and materiel, food and fuel control, volunteer and women's roles, and veteran rehabilitation[18]

Photos: Saanich-based Muggins the Red Cross Dog poses with military personnel in his fundraising campaign that brought in thousands of dollars[19]

Ontario health board's tips and myths regarding influenza[20]

Various Montreal community groups aid fight against influenza[21]

Death notice for Mi'kmaq grand chief John Denny Jr. and inauguration of new grand chief Gabriel Sylliboy on Cape Breton Island[22]

United Farm Women of Ontario get their male counterparts to work with them[23]

United Farmers of Ontario protest undemocratic wartime government practices[24]

Basic English manual is aimed at foreign-born adults of "industrial class"[25]

Labour lawyer comments at length on deteriorating worker-management relations in Winnipeg[26]

Journalist says people in central Canada have no more influence on government than Westerners do (and perhaps less)[27]

Vilhjalmur Stefansson speaks on difficulties of his Arctic explorations, and overcoming them[28]

University of Manitoba convocation speaker addresses optimism[29]

Wilfrid Laurier comments on Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine[30]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. http://criaw-icref.ca/millenium Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Nicholson, G. W. L. (1962). Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. p. 526.
  4. ^ Nicholson, G. W. L. (1962). Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. p. 527.
  5. ^ "An Act to confer the Electoral Franchise upon Women" House of Commons; Copies of All House of Commons Bills Introduced during the Session 1918, PDF pg. 22, Library of Parliament. Access 4 June 2023
  6. ^ "Labor Men Hear Lloyd George on British War Aims" The (Calgary) Morning Albertan (January 7, 1918), No. 261, pg. 1. Accessed 17 March 2020
  7. ^ What Quebec Wants; Reply of La Presse to a Question from Ontario (1918), pgs. 14–17. Accessed 16 May 2022
  8. ^ Trades and Labour Branch, Department of Public Works, "Women's Work on the Land; How You May Assist in Food Production this Summer". Accessed 18 March 2020
  9. ^ "Awarded The Victoria Cross; 472168 Sergeant Hugh Cairns, D.C.M.[....]" Accessed 17 March 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html (scroll down to Cairns)
  10. ^ Letter of W.A. Pearkes (June 22, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020
  11. ^ "Lieutenant Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, Lord Strathcona's Horse" Thirty Canadian V.Cs., pgs. 94-6. Accessed 17 March 2020
  12. ^ Letter of Alan Arnett McLeod (April 2, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020
  13. ^ Letter of Don Mackenzie (June 29, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020 https://archives.queensu.ca/exhibits/archival-resources-teachers/archival-look-world-war-i/warfare-wwi (scroll down to "Wilma" and click on page images)
  14. ^ Letter of Jack Malcolm Brown (January 3, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020
  15. ^ Letter of Joseph McCartney (January 22, 1918). Accessed 17 March 2020
  16. ^ "Hail, Canada!" The Stars and Stripes (May 24, 1918), pg. 4, and "Canada's Own Day," The Stars and Stripes (June 28, 1918), pg. 4. Accessed 17 March 2020
  17. ^ Exhibition pamphlets. Accessed 18 March 2020 http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/MOP/english/ww1/dosearch.asp?browse=8&results=50&all=true (scroll down to "War Gardens")
  18. ^ Canada's War Effort; 1914–1918 (1918). (See also 1918 film on manufacture of artillery shells in Ontario) Accessed 15 May 2022
  19. ^ Occupations-Military Personnel Muggins (Red Cross Dog) Collection, Saanich Archives. Accessed 3 July 2022
  20. ^ Ontario Provincial Board of Health, "Influenza Precautions; Warning to Health Authorities". Accessed 18 March 2020
  21. ^ S. Boucher, MD, "The Epidemic of Influenza," The Canadian Medical Association Journal (December 1918), pgs. 1090-1. Accessed 17 March 2020
  22. ^ Helen Sylliboy (translation), "Message on the Death of Chief John Denny" and "September 1918" Accessed 18 March 2020
  23. ^ "Chapter V; The United Farm Women" The Challenge of Agriculture; The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario (1921), pgs. 115-27. Accessed 18 March 2020
  24. ^ "Appendix; The Remonstrance" The Challenge of Agriculture; The Story of the United Farmers of Ontario (1921), pgs. 193-6. Accessed 18 March 2020
  25. ^ George Elmore Reaman, "Preface" English for New Canadians (1919), pg. 7. Accessed 18 March 2020
  26. ^ Letter of Thomas Murray (May 28, 1918). Accessed 19 March 2020
  27. ^ Bernard K. Sandwell, "West, East and the Government" Westing (1918), pgs. 14–15. Accessed 19 March 2020
  28. ^ Vilh Jalmur [sic] Stefansson, "The Canadian Arctic Region" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 364-79. Accessed 19 March 2020
  29. ^ Robert Law, "Optimism" (May 10, 1918). Accessed 19 March 2020
  30. ^ Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Volume II (1921), pgs. 552-3. Accessed 19 March 2020