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5th Division, 110
Canadian Guards, 254
Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force, 120
C-Force, 142
Royal Rifles of Canada, 142, 143, 145
Winnipeg Grenadiers, 142–44
First Canadian Army, 141, 145, 149, 166, 184, 205, 213–14, 216–17, 218, 223–24, 226, 227, 229
2nd Canadian Infantry Division (2 CID), 146–47, 149, 212–13, 216, 220–21, 224, 228
Fusiliers Mont-Royal (FMRs), 148
Hastings and Prince Edward Island Regiment, 190, 192
Joint Task Force 2 (JTF-2), 292
Joint Task Force Afghanistan Air Wing, 291, 305
Le Régiment de Maisonneuve, 221–22
Lord Strathcona’s Horse, 52, 292
Loyal Edmonton Regiment, 192, 196
No. 1 Winnipeg Company of Volunteers, 15–16
No. 2 Construction Battalion, 100–101, 120
No. 6 Company of Victoria Rifles of Canada, 26
Ontario Rifles, 17
Perth Regiment, 204
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (1, 2, and 3 PPCLI), 75, 109, 131, 191–92, 240–41, 242, 250, 251, 277, 292, 295–96, 307
Quebec Rifles, 17
Queen’s Own Rifles, 29, 69, 209, 224, 254, 259
RAF 242 (Canadian) Squadron, 163
Regina Rifle Regiment, 212
Royal 22nd Regiment (Van Doos), 131, 247–48, 251, 252–54, 263–64, 271, 303, 308
1st Battalion, 308
3rd Battalion, 303
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, 204
Royal Canadian Artillery, 44
Royal Canadian Dragoons, 44, 52, 68, 278
Royal Canadian Field Artillery, 52
Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR), 44, 48, 50–51, 131, 191–92, 247, 249, 251–54, 293, 299, 300, 301
1st Battalion, 299, 300
2 Platoon, Bravo Company, 300
B Company, 301
C Company, 300–301
3rd Battalion, 293
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, 148
Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 80
Seaforth Highlanders, 192, 196–97
Task Force Grizzly, 301
Task Force Kandahar, 308
Three Rivers Regiment, 191–92, 196
West Nova Scotia Regiment, 230
Yukon Field Force, 44, 45
Canadian Pacific Railway, 30, 101–2, 144
Canadian Party, 16
Capitaine, Louis, 42
Carruthers, Bruce, 55
Cassels, A.J.H., 246–47
CGS Canada, 62
Chambers, Ernest J., 85–86
China, 6, 101, 142, 240–42, 245–48, 251–53, 319
ally of Triple Entente, 101
North Korean ally in Korean War, 6, 240–42, 245–48, 251–53
role in global politics, 319
Chrétien, Jean, 274–76, 282, 290–91, 295, 309
Churchill, Winston, 142, 145, 157, 163, 170, 187, 221, 258, 348
Clark, John, 252
Clark, Mark W., 193–94, 198–99, 201, 203
Clarkson, Adrienne, 243
Claxton, Brooke, 234, 236, 239, 254–55
Cockburn, H.Z.C., 53, 54
Cold War, 6, 233–37, 263, 265–66, 268, 270, 272–73, 283–84, 317
Canadian controversy over Bomarc B surface-to-air missile in, 265–66
Canadian controversy over Voodoo fighter in, 266
Canadian peacetime conscription during, 233
Cuban Missile Crisis in, 266
defence against Soviet Union in, 234–35, 254–56, 259, 261, 265–66, 273
dismantling of Soviet Union, 273, 318
Distant Early Warning Line, 265
East and West Germany united, 273
European Defence Union, 235
fall of Berlin Wall in, 273
intercontinental ballistic missiles in, 265–66
Mid-Canada Line, 265
Pinetree Line, 265
postwar defence spending in Canada, 236, 254–55
Collège militaire royal (Saint-Jean, Quebec), 234, 271, 275
Confederate States of America, 17–19, 34
Congo, 6, 262–63, 264, 265, 283, 352
independence of, 262
Léopoldville (Kinshasa), 263
U.N. Operation in the Congo, 263, 265
Cook, Tim, 201, 344, 347
Cookson, G.A., 55
Cosens, Aubrey, 226
Costall, Robert, 296
Council of Assiniboia, 14
Crerar, Harry, 142, 145–46, 149, 214, 216, 223–24
Cronjé, Piet, 49
Cross, James, 270
Cuban Missile Crisis, 266
Currie, Arthur, 5, 69, 72–74, 78, 81, 91, 92, 103, 104, 105–10, 112–13, 115, 117–19, 128, 316, 343
Currie, David, 215
Cyprus, 6, 267, 268, 270, 271, 283
Canadian casualties in, 268
Green Line, 268
Nicosia, 268
overthrow of Cypriot president, in 268
Turkish invasion of, 268
United Nations Forces in Cyprus, 267–68
Dallaire, Roméo, 279–80
Denison, Frederick, 42
Dextraze, Jacques, 247, 264
Diefenbaker, John, 259, 262–63, 265–66
Dönitz, Karl, 151, 154, 157, 159
Douglas, Michelle, 286
Drabloe, Petra, 252
Dumbells, The (acting troupe), 90
Dumont, Elie, 34
Dumont, Gabriel, 25, 28, 31, 33–35
Dumont, Isidore, 28
Dundonald (Earl), 58–59
Eden, Anthony, 258
Edward VIII (King), 129
Egypt, 40, 41, 42, 76, 258–59, 260, 261, 262–63, 270–71, 276, 284
U.N. Emergency Force I, 259, 260, 261, 262–63, 270–71
U.N. Emergency Force II, 270, 284
See also Sinai Desert, Suez Canal, Suez crisis
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 171–72, 206, 216–17, 253
Farouk (King), 258
Fawkes, John, 50
Fenian Brotherhood, 4, 10, 10–12, 30, 67
Fine Day, 32
First Boer War, 44, 47
First World War, 4–5, 65–123, 124, 131, 137, 139, 142, 183–84, 197, 200, 201, 223, 234–35, 315–16, 344
Allied support of White Russians after, 120
Americans enter, 103
Battle of Arras, 84, 91, 93–95
Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 81, 128
Battle of Mount Sorrel, 77–78, 83
Canadian casualties in, 78, 83
“battle of the craters,” 76
Battle of the Somme, 79–85
British casualties in, 80
Canadian casualties in, 82
Battle of Verdun, 79, 91
Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1, 53, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95–96, 100, 104–5, 128–29, 211, 316, 345
Canadian casualties in, 95, 100
Canadian memorial to, 128–29, 130
Beaumont-Hamel (France), 80
Board of Grain Supervisors (Canada), 88–89
cadet program in Canada in, 60
Canadian casualties in, 121
Canadian engineers in, 68, 110, 115, 117
Canadian nurses in, 97, 112, 129, 176, 345
Chalk Pit, 105
conscription in Canada in, 96–98, 99, 100, 139, 316, 345
“creeping-barrage” technique in, 81, 92, 94
daily routine for soldiers in, 75
demobilization of Canadian military after, 119–20, 121, 125
demographic shift in Canadian military in, 100, 101, 102, 103
Asians, 100
Black people, 100–101, 120
Chinese, 101, 102
Indigenous, 102, 103
Japanese, 101, 105, 106, 129
Douai Plain (France), 95, 107
Eastern Front in, 111
end of, 118–19
enemy aliens in Canada in, 86–87
Étaples (France), 112
Fabek Graben, 81
Festubert (France), 74
First Battle of Ypres, 72
Flanders (Belgium), 107, 113, 334
Gallipoli (Ottoman Empire) in, 76
Givenchy (France), 74
Hill 145, 95
home front in Canada in, 85–90
Hundred Days Campaign in, 5, 100, 112–19, 121
Battle of Amiens, 113, 316
Battle of Canal du Nord, 115, 116, 117, 128
Bourlon Wood, 117
Cambrai, 114–15, 117
Canadian casualties in, 113, 115, 117, 118–19
Drocourt-Quéant Line, 114–15
Mons, 118–19
Valenciennes, 118
Imperial Munitions Board (Canada), 82, 89
Imperial War Conference, 96
internment camps in Canada in, 86–87, 88
Kinmel Park (Wales) riot by Canadian military, 120
“leapfrogging” technique in, 81
mental health of Canadian soldiers in, 89–90
Military Service Act (1917) in Canada, 96
Military Service Registrar (Canada), 98
Military Voters Act (1917) in Canada, 97
National Service Board (Canada), 83
occupation of German Rhineland by Allies, 119–20
origins of, 65–66
Pimple, The, 95
poison gas in, 72–73
Pozières Ridge (France), 79, 81
rear areas in, 75
reasons for, 122
Regina Trench (France), 82–83
Resolution IX (Canada), 96, 134
right to vote for women in, 97, 316
Second Battle of Ypres, 71–75, 316
Shell Committee and crisis (Canada), 82, 89
shell shock in, 83–85
spring 1918 German offensive in, 111, 112
St. Eloi (France), 74–78
tanks in, 81–82, 113, 115
Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 103–7, 108, 109–12, 316
Canadian casualties in, 105, 107, 109
Hill 70, 103–4, 105, 107, 211
Lens, 103–6, 107
Treaty of Versailles (1919), 136
trench fever and trench foot in, 74–75
trenches in, 70–72, 74, 76, 77, 89–90, 108, 114–15, 344
Triple Entente in, 65, 73, 79, 101, 112, 122
underage Canadian boys in, 69
venereal disease (VD) in, 75
“Verdun Report,” 91
Vimy Ridge (France), 91, 93, 94, 95, 103, 104, 128, 211, 316
Wartime Elections Act (1917) in Canada, 97–98
Western Front in, 5, 70, 79–80, 82, 89–90, 97, 100–101, 110, 112, 114, 120
Ypres Salient in, 71, 74–75, 77
Zollern Graben (France), 81
Flavelle, Joseph, 82, 89
Fleming, Ian, 347
Flint, George, 258
Foch, Ferdinand, 111–12
Foote, J.W., 148
former Yugoslavia, 6, 260, 276–78, 282–83
Battle of Medak Pocket (Croatia), 6, 277
Kosovo, 277
NATO involvement in, 277–78
Sarajevo, 277
U.N. Protection Force, 276–78
Fort Battleford (Saskatchewan), 28, 30, 32
Fort Garry (Manitoba), 14, 16, 20, 22
See also Winnipeg
Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), 29–30
Foster, Veronica “Bren Gun Girl,” 175, 176
Foulkes, Charles, 205, 212, 216, 220–21, 240
Fowler, Michelle, 351
France
45th Algerian Division and, 71–72
D-Day invasion of, 201, 206–7, 208, 209
defeat in Second World War of, 140–41, 149, 151, 163, 169, 173–74, 183
invasion by Germany in First World War of, 66
Triple Entente and, 65
Franco, Francisco, 136
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke), 66
Fraser, David, 299–301
French and Indian War, 2–3
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), 269–70
Gardner, Russell, 252
George V (King), 95, 104
German Military Formations
1st Parachute Division, 195, 199
12th SS Hitler Youth Division, 209–10, 211, 212, 215
21st Panzer Division, 209
26th Panzer Division, 204
29th Panzer Grenadier Division, 204
90th Grenadier Division, 199
Army Group B, 206
Fifteenth Army, 206
Fourteenth Army, 203
Hermann Göring Division, 190
Panzer Lehr Division, 209
Seventh Army, 206
Tenth Army, 198, 201, 203
Germany
Adolf Hitler comes to power in, 136
All-German Sports Competition in, 135
annexation of Austria by, 136
East and West Germany united, 273
First World War
“Black Day” (August 8, 1918) in, 113
as Central Power, 65
effect of Hundred Days Campaign on Germany in, 119
end of, 118–19
as global power, 65
Hindenburg Line, 114, 117, 118
navy in, 60
occupation of German Rhineland by Allies, 119
peace terms and reparations demanded after, 122
spring 1918 German offensive in, 111, 112
formation as country, 65
invasion of Poland by, 139
Munich Agreement (1938), 136–37
occupation of Czechoslovakia by, 136
remilitarization of Rhineland by, 136
Second World War
bombing of Berlin, 171
bombing of Cologne, 170
bombing of Dresden, 172
bombing of Hamburg, 171, 172
bombing of Ruhr, 171
defeat in Italy of Germans, 205–6
defeat in Normandy of Germans, 215
defeat in North Africa of Germans, 187
defeat in Sicily of Germans, 192–93
defeat of France by Germans, 151–52
Enigma machine in, 146
Etna Line, 190, 192, 206
Gothic Line, 201, 202, 203–6
Gustav Line, 199
Hitler Line, 199–201
Luftwaffe in, 163–64, 169, 172
navy in, 151–59
U-boats in, 146, 149, 151, 152, 153–60, 167–69, 173
Winter Line, 194, 198–99, 201, 203
Ghadhafi, Muammar, 310
Gladstone, William, 9
Glover, Ernest, 244
Goddard, Nichola, 298
Gough, Hubert, 108
Goulet, Elzéar, 11, 22
Granatstein, Jack, 59, 255, 275, 299
Grasett, A.E., 142
Gray, Robert “Hammy,” 159–60
Great Depression, 122, 127, 130–31, 134, 273, 316
Habyarimana, Juvénal, 280
Haig, Douglas, 76, 79–80, 84, 92, 95, 103, 107–10, 112, 344
Haiti, 6, 276, 280–81, 291
Halton, Matthew, 197
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 260, 263, 352
Harkness, Douglas, 266
Harper, Stephen, 282, 296, 304–5, 308, 311, 313–14
Harris, Arthur “Bomber,” 169–70, 172
Hellyer, Paul, 268–69
Helmer, Alexis, 344
Herbert, I.J.C., 44
Hillier, Rick, 293, 294
His/Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship
Algonquin, 161
Athabaskan, 160–61, 237, 274–75
Bonaventure, 255, 256, 268–69
Cayuga, 237, 245
Chambly, 155
Charlottetown, 311
Crusader, 245
Haida, 160–61, 245
Halifax, 291
Hawkesbury, 151
Huron, 161, 245
Iroquois, 160, 245–46
Magnificent, 255, 260
Moose Jaw, 155
Niobe, 61, 62, 63
Nootka, 245
Prince Robert, 143, 160, 161
Protecteur, 274–75
Quebec, 255
Rainbow, 61, 62, 63, 132
Regina, 162
Saguenay, 134
Sioux, 161, 237, 245–46
Skeena, 134
Terra Nova, 274–75
Uganda, 160, 229
Vancouver, 311
His/Her Majesty’s Ship
Belfast, 159
Spiteful, 159
Hitler, Adolf, 122, 136, 139, 163, 171, 203, 206–7, 214, 223, 226, 229, 231, 258
Hoffmeister, Bert, 196, 198, 200, 203–5
Holland, Edward, 53
Horn, Karl von, 263
Horne, Henry, 104
Hornell, David, 167, 168
Hose, Walter, 132, 133, 134, 346
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), 12–14
Hughes, Garnet, 69, 110
Hughes, Sam, 57, 66, 67–70, 71, 74, 82–83, 84, 89, 100, 110, 343
Hussein, Saddam, 312
Hutton, Edward, 47, 58
Il Sung, Kim, 236
India, 17, 30, 76, 257–58, 260
8th Indian Division, 199
Indian Mutiny, 30
Military Observer Group (India-Pakistan), 257
Indigenous people(s), 3, 24, 27–29, 32, 35–37, 100, 102, 103, 109, 179, 230–31, 274, 275, 313, 342
Anishnabe, 109
Assiniboine, 32
Blackfoot, 27
Canadian military and, 179
conscription and, 97
Cree, 12, 27–28, 30, 32, 35, 37
Five Nations Confederacy, 2
Kanien’keha:ka, 42, 103, 274, 275
Maliseet, 102
Mi’kmaq, 2, 102
Ojibwe, 12
Sagkeeng First Nation, 22
Shawanaga First Nation, 109
Six Nations, 102–3
Wabanaki Confederacy, 2
Iran
U.N. Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group, 276
Iraq, 274–76, 312
defeat in First Gulf War by coalition forces, 275
invasion of Kuwait by, 274–75
U.N. Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group, 276
U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission, 276
United States and allies invade, 312
Islamic State — Khorasan Province, 310
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), 312
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). See Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Italy
First World War
as Central Power, 65
as Triple Entente ally, 79
Second World War
defeat in mainland Italy, 193
defeat in North Africa, 187
defeat in Sicily, 192–93
execution of Mussolini, 229
military operations in North Africa, 141
overthrow of Mussolini, 193
Iwamoto, Tokutaro, 105
