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A WebQuest Designed by: Katherine Gillis For Grade 10 Canadian History Students |
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"It is our duty to let Great Britain know and to let the friends and foes of Great Britain know that there is in Canada but one mind and one heart and that all Canadians are behind the Mother Country." Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian Nationalist secret society, served as a catalyst to the Great War.
When Germany invaded a neutral Belgium, Britain was obligated
to declare war on August 4th 1914, automatically entering
the Dominion of Canada. Prime Minister Robert Borden rallied for
Canadians to help, and within a
few weeks men and women willingly signed up for the war effort.
Men were trained as soldiers at CFB Valcartier in Quebec, while the
women entered the labour force for the first time to replace the men
who were leaving for active duty.
Since this WebQuest will focus on
what the soldiers experienced in WWI, you will have to become one of the men who have just
volunteered to
join the Canadian Expeditionary Force (after September 15th
1915 it’s known as the Canadian Corps.). You record your journey,
through your perspective of what it would have been like to be a
Canadian WWI soldier, in a journal along with the mementos you have collected along the way.
Now
proceed to the TASK page
to start.
