In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
U.S. President Bill Clinton 

Travel through the eras of  history and the development of the various nations that make up Canada today.

World War I |August 1914 | Recruitment | Sam Hughs | To England |To France | 2nd Battle of Ypres | Battle of St Julien | The Navel War | Festabert | Givenchy | Canadian Corps | The Air War | Newfoundland | The Somme | St Eloi Crater | Mount Sorrel | Hill 70 | Passchendaele | Vimy Ridge | Amiens | Cambrai | Mons | Flanders Fields | Victory

The First World War, or as some called it, the Great War, was truely a global conflict with battlefields girdling the globe form Europe to the Pacific, and from Africa to the North Atlantic. Ignited by a regional issue, the flames fanned by the powerful forces of nationalism, and the explosion born of a new type of war - war by timetable. The combatants all believed that the could win a quick decisive victory which would lead to the next level of global domination, but were sucked into a drawn out, bloody struggle with no victory, just a time out for twenty years and than a resumption of the contest. This was the first modern war with machines and technology playing a major role in the battles, the war and the outcome.

Canada in World War I