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History Post-confederation (1867-)

A Time Such as There Never Was Before

Canada After the Great War

by (author) Alan Bowker

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2014
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), North America, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459722828
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781459722804
    Publish Date
    Sep 2014
    List Price
    $34.99

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Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted
Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|

The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”
The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place in the world, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands.
What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Was Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know today.

 

About the author

Alan Bowker has a Ph.D. in Canadian history. He has served for over 30 years in Canada's foreign service, including a position as High Commissioner to Guyana. He is the editor of a collection of Leacock essays, On the Front Line of Life and Social Criticism: The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays. He lives in Ottawa.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Ottawa Book Award

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