The Great War: Life in the Trenches, 1914-1918
Courcelette from the Cemetery (1919), David Milne
A – “Canada’s Answer”: Mobilizing for War
B – Battles
• Second Battle of Ypres, 1915• Beaumont Hamel, at the Somme, 1916• Vimy Ridge, 1917• Passchendaele, 1917• Amiens, the Last One Hundred Days, and Armistice, 1918
C – A Modern War?
• Old Strategies, New Technologies• A New World Or Old Ideals? The Mythology of Sacrifice
Goals of Talk
Map of the Western Front
Valcartier Training Camp, Quebec
Canada’s Answer (1918), Norman Wilkinson
Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April to 25 May 1915 (1917), Richard Jack
Gas Attack, Liévin (1918), A.Y. Jackson
“The brooding soldier,”St. Julien (1923), Frederick Chapman Clemesha
Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia 1911-1916
General Arthur Currie, Commander, Canadian Corps,
1917-1918
Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele (1917), Alfred Bastien
Canadian 4th Division, Passchendaele, 14 November 1917
Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron (ca. 1918), Alfred Munnings
Over the Top, Neuville-Vitasse (1918), Alfred Bastien
Trench Map, Beaumont Hamel, 1916
Armentiers, France, 1915
No Man’s Land, Vimy, 1917
Dug Out on the Somme (1919), Mary Riter Hamilton
Olympic with Returned Soldiers (1919), Arthur Lismer
War in the Air (1918), C. R. W. Nevinson
Major O. M. Learmonth, the Victoria Cross (1918), James Quinn
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele
For What? (1918), F.H. Varley
The Conquerors [The Victims] (1920), Eric Kennington
No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital at Doullens (1918), Gerald Moira
Vimy Ridge Memorial (1925-36): The Spirit of Sacrifice and the figure of Canada