Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 (53 page)

Wounded Canadians after Paardeberg. “Leavitt is not expected to live. Boers surrendered to the Canadians. Roberts said we did fine work.… Men are horribly shot.” Albert Perkins, February 27, 1900. (
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Soldiers leave for war, 1915. (
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B Company, Newfoundland Regiment, in front line, Suvla Bay, 1915. Capt. Alexander (left) and Capt. Nunns (right). (
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The enthusiasm of the early days was long gone, but in its place was an inflexible determination to win the war and to make sure that the suffering was shared by all. (
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Talbot M. Papineau, April 1916. (
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Sir Robert Borden chats with a wounded man at Base Hospital, March 1917. (
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How did people in the West feel about conscription?
“Well, I think they were all for it. Because after all, the flower of the flock had already been taken.” Naomi Radford, Edmonton. (
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Lester B. Pearson, spring 1918. “Mike” was the invention of Pearson’s Royal Flying Corps squadron commander who thought “Lester” an inappropriate name for a fighter pilot. (
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Members of 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles return from the Battle of Amiens on a tank. (
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Mackenzie King was a dumpy, fussy bachelor, communing regularly with his dear, dead mother and other denizens of the spirit world. (
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Sutherland Brown, Special Reconnaissance. In the Upper Ausable Valley, east of Lake Placid, planning to invade the United States. (
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Mackenzie King inspecting guard of honour from the Régiment de la Chaudière: “I never dreamed that the day would come when … it should be my lot to be the one to lead this Dominion of Canada into a great war.” (
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The Malton aircraft factory in Toronto (originally the National Steel Car Company, until C.D. Howe took it over and reorganized it as Victory Aircraft), which built Avro Lancaster bombers. (
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