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INDEX

Austria-Hungary, 8, 11, 19 Famous Five, 31 Mackey, Francis, 20
First World War, 4, 8–9, 11, 15, Macphail, Agnes, 27
Balfour Declaration, 30 18–19, 23, 35, 37, 42 McClung, Nellie, 18, 31
Banting, Frederick, 29 France, 8–9, 14, 16–18, 23, 35, McCrae, John, 12
Battle of Beaumont-Hamel, 18 40, 42 Military Service Act of 1917, 19
Battle of the Somme, 14
Battle of Vimy Ridge, 13–14, Germany, 4, 8–9, 13–16, 18–19, Nakano, Takeo Ujo, 38–39
16–17 23, 35, 40, 42
Borden, Robert, 4, 19, 23 Great Depression, 4–5, 32–33 Paris Peace Conference, 4, 23
Britain, 4, 6, 8–9, 16, 19, 23, 28, Group of Seven, 26 Pearl Harbour, 37–38
30, 35, 40, 42 Persons Case, 31
Halifax Harbour, 20–21 Prince, Tommy, 42
Canadian Women’s Army Hitler, Adolf, 35
Corps, 36 Russia, 8
Chinese Canadians, 28, 42 influenza, 24–25 Second Battle of Ypres, 12, 15
Chinese immigrants, 28–29 insulin, 29 Second World War, 5–6, 33, 35,
Coleman, Vince, 21 internment camps, 6, 11, 37, 37, 40, 42–43
conscription, 19, 37 38–39
“In Flanders Fields,” 12 Treaty of Versailles, 23
D-Day, 40 Italy, 8, 35, 40, 42
Dust Bowl, 33 United Nations, 43
Japan, 35, 37–38 United States, 6, 9, 23, 28, 32,
European immigrants, 11, 19 Japanese Canadians, 5–6, 38, 40, 43
37–39, 42
War Measures Act of 1914, 11
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, women’s suffrage, 18
30, 37

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julie Kentner grew up in Boissevain, Manitoba One of her grandfathers enlisted
in the First World War, her grandparents were farmers in southwestern Manitoba
during the Great Depression, and her great-uncle fought at D-Day in the Second

World War She now lives in Winnipeg with her husband, Eric, and their three cats:
Max, Nico, and Rory

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