How did Canada at Home Respond to the War?

Answer the following questions. Use your textbook p. 189-195.

1. How did the Canadian government finance the war? Explain.

They sold victory bonds and let people donate to them.

2. What was the role of propaganda?

A brainwash tool used by government to keep people nationalist so they will fight for
Canada without asking why.

3. Explain the importance of War Measures Act.

The government will be allowed to pass laws without the agreement of Parliament
when Canada is at war. It also allows government to overrule provincial laws, censors
the news media, demand manufacturers and farmers to produce what the government
want, imprison people without trial, and label some people enemies of Canada.

4. Which nations were labelled as enemy aliens? Why? How were they treated by
the Canadian government?
Germans, Austrian Hungarians, and Ukraine. They were forced to carry id cards and
report regularly to authorities, they were not allowed read or publish anything in their
own languages, and they can’t leave Canada without permission. A portion of them are
placed in internment camps and are forced to build roads and railways, work in mines,
and clear land. Some of them got fired because of the race and rioters bulling them and
destroy their properties.

5. How were women treated during the war? Did their traditional roles change?

Women starts to run their family farm and business because men are at war.
Women also become workers to make supplies, ships, tanks, bombs, guns, and
ammos for Canadian Forces but they are poor paid compare to men and work in
worse conditions (some doesn’t have separate washroom for women) because the
labour union want to protect jobs for men. Even though these jobs for women are
 considered temporal and will be taken by men after they come back, many women
aren’t satisfied with their traditional role after that. Women also work hard to get
the right to vote.

6. Who was the Minister of Militia? What were the 2 things he was criticized for?

Sam Hughes, profiteering from making artillery shells. (take $170m and make
artillery shells worth $5.5m only and even these deliveries were late)

7. What issue increased tensions between English and French Canadians? Explain.

Prime Minister Robert Borden passed the Military Service Act which include
conscription, and this outraged Wilfrid. The tension between English and French
Canadians is basically caused by the fact that most English Canadians support this
while French Canadians don’t.