Front Matter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Timeline xxiii
6. Albertans at War: The Military
7. Colour Insert 1
8. An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War 5
9. Raymond Brutinel and the Genesis of Modern Mechanized Warfare 15
10. While You Were Away: Alberta’s First World War Aviation History 31
11. Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure 41
12. Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War 51
13. Scattered by the Whirlwind: Alberta Chaplains and the Great War 71
14. The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914–1918 81
15. Sid Unwin’s War 93
16. Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War 103
17. The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of Alberta 115
18. The Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War 133
19. The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front 143
20. Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Rising to the Challenge 161
21. Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story 187
22. Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts 197
23. The Home Front: Context and Meaning
24. Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916 203
25. Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War 219
26. “O valiant hearts who to your glory came”: Protestant Responses to Alberta’s Great War 231
27. Alberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization 245
28. Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914 263
29. Edmonton’s Local Heroes 279
30. Voices of War: The Press and the Personal 287
31. From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta during the First World War 297
32. The Great War and Labour in Alberta 307
33. The Great Western Garment Company during the First World War 319
34. The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey 325
35. Communities at War
36. Edmonton and the Great War 339
37. The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support, and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, Alberta 355
38. Red Deer and the First World War 369
39. Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt 383
40. Calgary’s Grand Theatre in the Great War 403
41. Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus during the First World War 415
42. Mobilizing Mount Royal: Capturing Campus Contributions to the Great War 433
43. Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916 443
44. Canada’s First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association 459
45. Conscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War 475
46. Aftermath
47. War, Public Health, and the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza Pandemic in Alberta 485
48. Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta 509
49. Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917^–1931 517
50. First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums 527
51. Alberta Formations Raised in the First World War 537
52. Contributors 541
53. Index 545