The Home Front & Conscription Crisis
Students examine life on the home front during WWI, the role of women in the war effort, and the divisive conscription crisis that tore the country apart along linguistic lines.
Key Questions
- 1How did the war change daily life for Canadians on the home front?
- 2Why did the conscription crisis divide English and French Canada?
- 3How did the war change the role of women in Canadian society?
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