A Time Such as There Never Was Before

Canada After the Great War

Nonfiction, History, Americas, North America, Canada
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Author: Alan Bowker ISBN: 9781459722828
Publisher: Dundurn Publication: August 19, 2014
Imprint: Dundurn Language: English
Author: Alan Bowker
ISBN: 9781459722828
Publisher: Dundurn
Publication: August 19, 2014
Imprint: Dundurn
Language: English

Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted

Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|

The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”

The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands.

What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.

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Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted

Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|

The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”

The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands.

What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.

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