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Chapter 2 Timeline
Canada and WWI
Question | Answer |
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Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is assassinated by a Serbian nationalist | 1914 |
Germany invafdes Belgium and France | 1914 |
Britain declares war on Germany (Canada is automatically at war) | 1914 |
War Measures Act is passed | 1914 |
Canadian troops exposed to poisonous gas at Ypres, Belgium | 1915 |
Women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta gain the right to vote in provincial elections | 1916 |
The Newfoundland Regiment almost destroyed as Battle of Somme begins | 1916 |
Canadian troops capture Vimy Ridge, France | 1917 |
Women in BC and ON gain the right to vote in provincial elections | 1917 |
Wartime Elections Act gives federal vote to women related to servicemen | 1917 |
Borden re-election as head of Union Government | 1917 |
Canadian troops succeed in muddy battles at Passchendaele in Belgium | 1917 |
Halifax is flattened by explosion of a French munitions ship in its harbour | 1917 |
Conscription becomes mandatory | 1918 |
Armistice declared on the Western Front in Europe | 1918 |