World War 1 or the First World War was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian history, taking lives of more than 60,000 Canadians. The three main arguments are how WW1 affected Canada politically, socially, and economically. Even though, the war killed nearly 61,000 Canadians, WW1 had a more positive effect or impact on the future development of Canada. Although Canada experienced a lot of downfalls and negative effects like the amount of casualties and deaths we had, we also had some positives too. The war had caused changes that occurred politically after World War 1. In 1931, Britain granted Canada full independence. This was good for Canada in several matters including not going into WW2 forced by Britain until we decided to fight in the war.
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Once there were very little volunteers left to fight in the war the federal government had no choice and decided in 1917 to conscript young men for overseas military service. Voluntary recruitment was failing to maintain troops, and Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden believed in the military value and potential post-war influence, of a strong contribution to the war. The conscription debate was one of the fiercest and most divisive in Canadian political history, raging through 1917 and into 1918. Conscription was very important because it divided French Canadians, and Aboriginals from English Canadians and also increased our military size (war museum). Canada’s economy started to get better with resources such as lumber, nickel, copper, and lead were in high demand as well as military gear, and food. The way the war was fought was changing as nations began to develop new war technology. The machine gun helped keep enemies from crossing into no man’s land and was capable of firing 400-500 rounds per minute. More powerful and accurate artillery was developed like airplanes which were used for the first time in WW1 (were used first for scouting and then later used for bombing). Machine guns were eventually added to them. Over 66 million shells were produced in Canada’s factories and created lots of good job opportunities for people especially for women who were unemployed because they were helping the war effort, earning money, and women were able to take the men’s jobs while they were away at war. Canada has evolved a lot ever since WW1 and will continue to learn and evolve in the future and fix mistakes that we’ve done so it doesn’t happen again. In conclusion these 3 huge arguments help explain the positive effects or impacts Canada had on the future development of Canada. Canada has evolved greatly and there are still positive and negative effects that happened to us in WW1 and still happen
Once there were very little volunteers left to fight in the war the federal government had no choice and decided in 1917 to conscript young men for overseas military service. Voluntary recruitment was failing to maintain troops, and Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden believed in the military value and potential post-war influence, of a strong contribution to the war. The conscription debate was one of the fiercest and most divisive in Canadian political history, raging through 1917 and into 1918. Conscription was very important because it divided French Canadians, and Aboriginals from English Canadians and also increased our military size (war museum). Canada’s economy started to get better with resources such as lumber, nickel, copper, and lead were in high demand as well as military gear, and food. The way the war was fought was changing as nations began to develop new war technology. The machine gun helped keep enemies from crossing into no man’s land and was capable of firing 400-500 rounds per minute. More powerful and accurate artillery was developed like airplanes which were used for the first time in WW1 (were used first for scouting and then later used for bombing). Machine guns were eventually added to them. Over 66 million shells were produced in Canada’s factories and created lots of good job opportunities for people especially for women who were unemployed because they were helping the war effort, earning money, and women were able to take the men’s jobs while they were away at war. Canada has evolved a lot ever since WW1 and will continue to learn and evolve in the future and fix mistakes that we’ve done so it doesn’t happen again. In conclusion these 3 huge arguments help explain the positive effects or impacts Canada had on the future development of Canada. Canada has evolved greatly and there are still positive and negative effects that happened to us in WW1 and still happen