1. _________________What did the soldiers return to?
Coming Home from War
_________________What did the soldiers return to?

2. Troubles Getting Home
Troops were eager to return home to their families and resume their lives
More soldiers than ships, so soldiers had to wait their turn = frustration
Ships needed repairs
March 5, 1919 – Riots in Kinmel, UK
Kinmel
attacked the camp canteen and stole large amounts of liquor and tobacco
Canadian units attempt to defend camp (from other canadians)
Ontario soldiers arrested some leaders and fired at rioters – 5 killed and 15 arrested and sent to the Tower of London (1 to 7 years hard labour sentences)

3. Welcome Home! Welcomed as heroes parades and speeches
Eager to resume their civilian lives

4. Analyze the following photos to determine what life was life for the soldiers returning back to Canada?
Fill out sheet

5. Anti-strike veterans prepare to march, 4 June 1919

6. Soldier being treated for shell shock

7. Denied Access to the Land Which He Bled to Defend
The Grain Growers Guide,
March 6, 1918.
This Grain Growers' Guide cartoon suggests some of the bitterness that veterans in Western Canada felt towards "war profiteers." They were seen as having fattened themselves on wartime contracts while the veterans were overseas fighting.

8. National Archives of Canada (PA-068115).
First World War veterans learning handicrafts under the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment, circa

9. Canada; An Illustrated Weekly Journal for all interested in the Dominion. Volume 45, February 10, 1917.
Vocational training for soldiers, Arts and Crafts Shop, Deer Lodge Military Hospital, Winnipeg.

10. What do you think this artist is trying to
illustrate with this subject matter?
~Stanley F. Turner’s A War Record

11. The Spanish Flu

12. Symptoms The disease struck almost instantly
In minutes, a person feeling perfectly well would be overcome by crushing fatigue and instantly come down with a raging fever.
Disease could kill in a matter of days
Cough, stuffy nose, aches and pains, high fever and fatigue.
Throat and mouth turned flaming red
Lungs filled with strangling pus

13. The Extent of the Outbreak
Between the deadly outbreak of the flu killed between 20 and 100 million people.
Killed 25 million in the first 25 weeks
- AIDS killed 25 million in 25 years
This was more than double the number of fatalities in WWI

14. It affected young, healthy people
35,000-50,000 Canadians died of the Spanish Flu
This was a complete opposite of who influenza usually affected; the old and sick.
Epidemic killed 20 million people – of which were Canadian
The war may have ended, but the dying continued
Americans, British, French died of the flu

15. How did it Spread? WWI did NOT cause the flu
BUT close quarters and mass movement of troops quickened its spread.
Major factor in the spread of disease was increased amount of travel.
Spanish Flu – Influenza contracted in the trenches
Brought the disease home

17. Disconsolate along the streets Man walks, oppressed with care
And hopeless scans the crowd he meets
To find his ladye faire.
For, swathed in white from ear to ear
She braves the dreaded flu
And as he greets each unknown dear
She answers with: At Choo!

18. Economic Woes slow economic adjustment to peacetime.
Industries that had created munitions for war were now re-tooling their factories

19. Economic Woes
Women were first to be fired from jobs as factories were reformatting – had filled MANY jobs during the war.
Drastic rise in cost of living
Soldiers thought they deserved to be compensated for their role in the war with jobs and higher wages
Increased unemployment
Soldiers found jobs that they left were now gone or that they had been replaced by those who did not go to fight

20. Listen and Respond to Questions
Highway of Heroes
Listen and Respond to Questions

21. From the Battlefields to...
Airplanes
Reconnaissance – pistols – machine guns – bombs
Become civilian air services postwar

22. From the Battlefields to...
Chemical Weapons
Chlorine gas v. Mustard gas – gas masks
Geneval Protocol in 1925

23. From the Battlefields to...
Machine Guns
Triple Alliance had better guns in Heavy at first – lightened up
Submachine gun – Thompson “Tommy” - gangsters

24. From the Battlefields to...
Submarines
German U-Boats sank 2600 Triple Entente ships
Depth charges
Submersible vessels for scientific research

25. From the Battlefields to...
Telephones
Existed before the war but were “luxuries”
Military communications – field telephone (but wired = problematic)
Becomes popular where there were enough homes and businesses in an area to make it economically viable to string the wires and set up switchboards

26. From the Battlefields to...
Radios
Network of radio communication stations for wartime communication – pass information verbally to ships at sea or overland
Businesspeople begin to see merits of radio for mass communication and entertainment
1919 – station XWA (eXperimental Wireless Apparatus) begins first broadcasts in Canada (Montreal) – broadcasts begin in other cities in the 1920s

27. From the Battlefields to...
Tanks
Armoured vehicles – from wagon with wheels to treads and tracks to deal with muddy conditions of the battlefield
Bulldozers and other construction/farming machines that use tracks – also snowmobiles