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A township at war

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    Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
  • Publisher:
    Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 14:43 hrs
    Narrator: Costas Halavrezos
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2021
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2018
    Summary:

    This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. Drawing from rich narrative sources, this work uses the local to understand the national, revealing what rural people were like a century ago - how they saw the world, what they valued, and how they lived their lives.

    A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like a thousand other rural townships in Canada, broadly representative in its wartime experience. Author Jonathan Vance draws from rich narrative sources to reveal what rural people were like a century ago—how they saw the world, what they valued, and how they lived their lives. We see them coming to terms with global events that took their loved ones to distant battlefields, and dealing with the prosaic challenges of everyday life. Fall fairs, recruiting meetings, church services, school concerts—all are reimagined to understand how rural Canadians coped with war, modernism, and a world that was changing more quickly than they were. This is a story of resilience and idealism, of violence and small-mindedness, of a world that has long disappeared and one that remains with us to this day.

    Contents:
    • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; A NOTE TO READERS; Introduction
    • Clare; 1 Before; 2 1914; 3 1915; 4 1916; 5 1917; 6 1918; 7 After; Envoi
    • Clare; NOTES; A NOTE ON PRIMARY SOURCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
    Original Publisher: [Waterloo, ON], Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771123891, 1771123893, 9781771123884, 1771123885