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Title: Fighting from the Home Front - Second World War- The Crucible
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode about the social and economic effects that the Second World War had on Canada. Discusses the War Measures Act invoked by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in 1939. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Queen of the Hurricanes - Elsie MacGill - Second World War- Fighting f...
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis on television episode focusing on Elsie MacGill, one of Canada's top aeronautical engineers during the Second World War, who was in charge of designing machines that would produce Hawker Hurricane airplanes. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Turmoil on the Homefront - First World War
 
Type: Document
Description: Canada experiences tensions and tragedy on the home front during the First World War. Shoddy war supplies scandals, enemy immigrant detainment camps, and a huge conscription crisis would turn Canada into a battleground of social and political turmoil.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Cost of War - Funding the Gulf War Effort
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: This report examines the cost of the Gulf War, which is adding up to a billion dollars a day for the allied coalition forces. Although the United States is paying the bulk of the bill, Canadians are investing approximately $350 million into the Gulf War effort and coalition forces have pledged a total of 42 billion dollars to assist the U.S.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Profits for Lives - Wartime Manufacturers Put Profits Ahead of Lives -...
 
Type: Document
Description: Canadian wartime manufacturers sacrifice lives for profits during the First World War. From the beginning of the war, there had been complaints about the shoddy supplies given to Canadian soldiers. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Life on the Homefront: Salvage - Canada and the War - Democracy at War
 
Type: Document Image
Description: During the Second World War, recycling was called salvage. Recycling initiatives allowed every Canadian to participate in the war effort.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War and the Foundation of Canada - Permanent European Settlement
 
Type: Document
Description: During the 16th century, European fishermen, whalers, traders, adventurers, and explorers visited the eastern seaboard of North America and established a lucrative fur trade by the early 1600s. While fishermen and whalers had generally co-operated with First Peoples in exchanging goods, permanent European settlement and involvement in the fur trade with Hurons and Algonkians soon led the French to join these nations in their war with the Iroquois Confederacy.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War Economy and Controls: C.D. Howe - Canada and the War- Democracy at...
 
Type: Document Image
Description: Clarence Decatur Howe, a leading Canadian businessman and politician, led the Canadian industry's effort to manufacture supplies of every kind for the Canadian Armed Forces and its allies during World War Two. Some of his efforts were recorded in the newspapers of the time.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: War Economy and Controls: Wage and Price Controls - Canada and the War...
 
Type: Document
Description: The wartime government of Canada attempted to keep the cost of living from rising by announcing a freeze on prices and the setting of levels for wages and salaries. The steps taken and the effects on the Canadian public were documented in articles in three English language papers archived by the Hamilton Spectator.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
Title: Canada and the First World War - Canada between the Wars. 1919-1939
 
Type: Document
Description: Aside from creating the Royal Canadian Airforce in 1924, the Canadian government avoided large expenditures for developing its armed forces between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War.
Site: Canadian War Museum
 
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