1917 in Canada

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Events from the year 1917 in Canada.

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Historical documents

Army chaplain explains why Canadians should reject peace offers at this time [5]

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Woman recalls being six-year-old in family caught in Halifax Explosion [6]

Victoria Cross citation for Ukrainian-Canadian soldier's bravery in battle [7]

Battle of Vimy Ridge described by Canadian signalman observing battlefront [8]

Amputee says horrors of Somme fighting worse than losing his arm there [9]

Recuperating Canadian soldier describes birdsong, currant and hawthorn blossoms and other beauties of spring in England [10]

Frontline doctor treats (and changes mind of) German prisoner of war [11]

Letter of thanks from soldier receiving socks, saying all intend to see war won [12]

Letter of thanks from soldier receiving socks, describing Christmas dinner [13]

International planning consultant advises against special programs to set up returning soldiers in agriculture [14]

Profile of Medicine Hat, Alta. branch of Great War Veterans Association [15]

"That woman suffrage will help the cause of Temperance is shown by the following facts" [16]

In inaugural address, President Wilson says U.S.A. cannot be independent of war, but is not part of it [17]

American upset over Canadian hostility to U.S. non-participation in World War I [18]

Poster for U.S. vs Canada charity baseball game in London, U.K. [19]

Prosecution's opening statement in trial of Inuk for murder on Coppermine River [20]

Modern conveniences would save farm women from lifting tons of water a day [21]

"The increase of fibre decreases digestibilty" - Ontario Agricultural College researcher on limited usefulness of whole-wheat flour [22]

Calgary mayor agrees that door-to-door distribution of flyers for birth control play should be prohibited [23]

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References

  1. "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. "About the Court – Full History". Tax Court of Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Weather Extremes for the Western States
  4. Loren Ruth Lerner; Mary F. Williamson (1 January 1991). Art Et Architecture Au Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 753. ISBN   978-0-8020-5856-0.
  5. Rev. C.W. Gordon, "Stripped to the Skin," Canadian Club, Ottawa, January 23, 1917. Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/gordon/Website/Box%2021/Folder%2013/thumbnails.shtml (scroll down to "Stripped")
  6. Jean Holder, "Halifax Explosion" (December 6, 1985). Accessed 13 March 2020 (See also Views of the Halifax Catastrophe including photos of Chebucto School)
  7. Corporal Filip Konowal. Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205019047 (scroll down to Object description)
  8. Letter of Harold E. Panabaker (May 17, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  9. Letter of James Hepburn, Jr. (January 10, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  10. Letter of Thomas William Johnson (May 11, 1917). Accessed 3 March 2020
  11. Letter of Harold W. McGill (May 28, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  12. Letter of J. MacLachlan (September 23, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/maclachlan-j-letter-23-september-1917 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/maclachlan-j-letter-23-september-1917-0
  13. Letter of R.C. Beswick (December 27, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917-0 http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/beswick-rc-letter-27-december-1917-1
  14. Thomas Adams, "Chapter VIII; Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement" Rural Planning and Development (1917), pgs. 207-17 Accessed 6 December 2019
  15. Great War Veterans Association, Calgary Branch, "Medicine Hat G.W.V.A." G.W.V.A. Year Book, 1919, pg. 231. Accessed 13 March 2020
  16. Isabel R. Erichsen Brown, "Equal Franchise and Temperance" (Toronto, January 1917), National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies of Canada. Accessed 2 May 2021 https://www.picturingpolitics.com/miss-representation/ (scroll down to Swaying the Public)
  17. Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address (March 5, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020
  18. Letter of Mrs. Harry Sharp (January 5, 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020 http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/gordon/Website/Box%2021/Folder%2011/thumbnails.shtml (scroll down to Sharp; note: writer misdated letter 1916)
  19. "BaseBall." Accessed 3 May 2021
  20. "Address of C.C. McCaul, K.C....before the Hon. Chief Justice Harvey and a Jury, at Edmonton, Alberta; August 14th, 1917." Accessed 13 March 2020
  21. [Lethbridge Herald article reprints,] "Water Supply and the Farmer's Wife; Lifting a Ton of Water a Day" More and Better Water For Our Farms and Rural Communities; Report of a Conference[...]at Lethbridge, Alberta, on June 22nd, 1917 (unpaginated). Accessed 13 March 2020
  22. Evidence of Prof. R. Harcourt, "Evidence Given before the [Senate] Standing Committee on Public Health and Inspection of Foods on the Subject of Whole Wheat Bread," pgs. 57-9. Accessed 5 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_SOC_1207_1_1/61?r=0&s=1 (scroll to bottom of page)
  23. Letters of Rev. Dr. J.T. Ferguson and Mayor Michael Copps Costello (August 1917). Accessed 13 March 2020