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WWI Recruitment Review of Reading French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War Dispatches: Backgrounders in Canadian Military History Dr. Serge Durflinger Recruitment messages Demographics of recruits Gender Age Marital status Ethnicity Initial surge of volunteers. Why? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WWI Recruitment• Review of Reading
French Canada and Recruitment during the First World WarDispatches: Backgrounders in Canadian Military HistoryDr. Serge Durflinger
• Recruitment messages
• Demographics of recruits• Gender• Age• Marital status• Ethnicity
• Initial surge of volunteers. Why?
• Drop off of volunteers, increase of need. Why?
• Conscription and the Conscription Crisis
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WWI Recruitment• Recruitment messages
• King and Country• Borden
• Patriotism • Anthem in Dawson City
• Unity• Volunteering in Moose Jaw• La Patrie
• Dissent• Winnipeg labour paper
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WWI Recruitment• Demographics of recruits
• Gender• Age• Marital status• Ethnicity
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WWI Recruitment• Initial surge of volunteers. Why?
• October 3 1914 33, 000 troops departed• 1915 20, 000 troops departed• Fall 1915- October 1917 124, 000 recruited
• Drop off of volunteers, increase of need. Why?• Independent battalions authorized• Need 250, 000 then 500, 000 out of a population of 8 million• Annual replacement: 75, 000• July 1916-Ocotber 1917: 28000 volunteers
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Recruitment now…
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Conscription
• Military Service Act (August 28 1917)
• 400, 000 eligible • 94/98 % applied for exemption• 87/91% exemptions approved
• 620, 000 served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force• 108, 000 were conscripted• 48, 000 went overseas and of those 24, 000 served at the front
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Conscription Crisis…• Articulate the reaction, views, beliefs of your identified group.• Present them as a group.• Write a summary of perspectives of two groups (other than your
own), identifying underlying economic, socio-political and cultural issues that influence this perspective. Conclude with your own assessment of the decision to implement conscription
Groups• French Canadians• British-born English Canadians• Canadian-born English Canadians• First Nations• Labour rights activists• Minister of Militia and Defense