Some positive things about Canada's participation in WW1?

Question

i need three good ones to write an essay about... and if possible could you include a little bit of info about it just point form.

Answer 1

Here are a couple:

1. Development of Canadian nationalism:

Despite all of the people that Canada lost in the First World War, there were many battles in which Canadians fought valiantly. Canadians became known for their bravery and strength, and we began to see ourselves as a nation separate from Britain, capable of accomplishing our own goals. Specifically, you should look into the battle at Vimy Ridge and Ypres.

2. The war caused women's roles to start to change. Look for facts about:

-More Canadian women in the workforce.
-The Canadian suffragist movement.

Perhaps you might also want to say something about how the war was a pre-cursor to the Roaring Twenties in Canada, or how the war helped us to industrialize.

Answer 2

Canada provided over 600,000 men and was a major contributor of Submarines.

Answer 3

The Canadian Expeditionary Force saw their first battle of World War I in the French town of Neuve Chapelle. After arriving from the Salisbury Plan, the Canadian forces were instructed to prevent the Germans from reinforcing the sector of Neuve Chapelle. This would allow the British 1st Army, under General Douglas Haig, to successfully push through German lines and establish a new Allied front line on conquered territory. In the subsequent Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the Canadian forces suffered 100 losses.

In the first week of April 1915, the soldiers of the 1st Canadian Division were moved to reinforce the Ypres salient where the British and allied line pushed into the German line in a concave bend. On April 22, the Germans sought to eliminate this salient by using poison gas. Following an intensive artillery bombardment, they released 160 tons of chlorine gas from cylinders dug into the forward edge of their trenches into a light northeast wind. As thick clouds of yellow-green chlorine drifted over their trenches the French defences crumbled, and the troops, completely bemused by this terrible weapon, died or broke and fled, leaving a gaping four-mile hole in the Allied line. [4]

All through the night, the Canadians fought to close this gap. On April 24, the Germans launched another poison gas attack, this time at the Canadian line. Over 6000 Canadians lost their lives before the reinforcements arrived. Canadians gained a reputation as a formidable fighting force. Moreover, it was the first time that a colonial force caused a major European power to retreat.

The next area where Canadians fought was at the Battle of the Somme from mid-September to mid-November. Initially launched as a campaign to relieve pressure from the belegaured French forces at Battle of Verdun, the Allied casualties actually exceeded those at Verdun. On July 1, 1916, the British launched the assault which resulted in the largest massacre of British forces - over 57,550 dead in one day. Among them were 255 men from the 1st Newfoundland Regiment ; of the 801 men of the Newfoundland Regiment, only 68 men answered the regimental role call after the attack. 255 were dead, 386 were wounded, and 91 were listed as missing. Every officer who had gone over the top was either wounded or dead. On the day that the British forces suffered their worst losses in history, the 1st Newfoundland Regiment also suffered its worst loss in its history.

As the fighting continued, the Canadians (with the support of a new 4th Canadian Division) were asked to secure the town of Courcelette. In the major offensive which began at dawn on September 15 the Canadian Corps, on the extreme left of the attack, assaulted on a 2,200 yard sector west of the village of Courcelette. By November 11th, the 4th Canadian Division finally secured most of the German trenches in Courcelette and then rejoined the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.

Although the Canadian Corps suffered 30 000 casualties, the victory at Vimy Ridge is usually celebrated as one of the most important landmarks on the road to Canadian nationhood. Later in the summer, Arthur Currie, commander of the 1st Canadian Division was knighted and became (along with Australian commander Sir John Monash) the only non-British soldiers to achieve corps command in the British Army.

Throughout these three final months, the Canadian troops saw action in a plethora of areas. The first was near the salient of Amiens on August 8th where the Canadian Corps (along with the Australians, French and British)was charged with the task of spearheading the assault on the German forces in Amiens. In the subsequent battle, the morale of the German forces were badly shaken. In Ludendorff's words, the battle of Arras was a "black day for the German army." After their breakthrough at Amiens, the Canadians were shifted back to Arras and given the task of cracking the Hindenburg Line in the Arras area.

Between August 26 and September 2nd, the Canadian Corp launched multiple attack near the German front at Canal du Nord. On September 27, 1918, the Canadian Forces smashed the Hindenburg Line by smashing through a dry section of the Canal du Nord. The operation ended in triumph on October 11, 1918 when the Canadian forces drove the Germans out of their main distribution centre in Battle of Cambrai.

Answer 4

try wikipedia.