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