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By BEN WARD and Belgian reservists. Almost Canadian Press Staff Writer leveryone had a neighbor who “fly years 8E0 ihls summer left to answer the mobilization Canada went to war Wth sing- call from his European home- !ng in the streets ‘ land

A nation of barely more than - ,Others left on their own to en- 'I.000.000. insignificant as is mil- ' list in Britain. too impatient to “try power, plunged into the wait for the training of the Ca-

First World War in 1914 on an 1nadian force. Before the first i upswelling of patriotism and en- f snows of 1914 John Mack ot thusiasm that was almost Carob Brnu'nshllrg, Que, had lost two ,' > val. ‘snn; in France 0. A Critchley. Within hours. thousands of an Alberta rancher. was in the men were clamoring to be (12- front lines With his three polo cruitied. There was betting that. playing boys the war wouldn't last until the l On Aug. 6 the call went out l 0nd of the year. Fear was ex- from Ottawa for recruits to pressed publicly that Canadians gather at \'a~lcartier, a newy wouldn't have a chance to get training camp hacked out of mm the fighting. the bush 15 miles northwest of Only a handful guessed at the Quebec City. Within a month 100 horrors that lay ahead. special trains had poured 32.- Formal word of war arrived 655 volunteers into the camp. It 8:55 pm. EST on the warm Creation of Valcartier almost Tuesday evening of Aug 4 when overnight was a spectacular ‘ a cable from the British gov- triumph engineered by Sir Sam emment was delivered to the Huzhes. the minister of militia Dulce of Gonnaught. then Gov- in Borden‘s cabinet and one of ether-General. 'in session With the most erratic and controver- Prime Minister Robert Borden sial trauma of the war. and his cabinet. CONTROVERSLAL RIFLE CANADA CHEERED Training was rigorous and in- It reported terselry that Brit. tense, consisting mainly of rifle sin—and its Empire----had do and machine-gun practice. clared war on the Kaiser's Gcr- “I want. first of all. men who . many» can pink the enemy every As the news spread across time," Sir Sam told the troops the land. parades and demon- in one of his many speeches. striations erupted in cities. towns often delivered from horseback Ind villages {as he rode proudly about the Crowds jammed doii-niown 1 campsite. He. boasted that the Montreal singing La Marseill- {men at Valcartier had been arise and Rule Briannia. In Tor- ‘ "trained to handle a rifle as no onto. 2.000 volunteers marched men had ever handled it be- dais (Inge Street behind a for-e." Me-and-drum band The Gover- The ride involved was the nor-General's Foot Guards pai- .Rnss, a story in itself. It was aded 350 strong in Ottawa ed ‘ produced in Canada by the Scot- by three bands and cheered by ; fish industrialist Sir Charles

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Four years earlier Sir Wilfrid i 342.000 of them L'aurier. then prime minister ' Despite its political ancestry, had stated it plainly in the sn- Sam put up an almost patio House of Commons: iological defence of the Ross ri- "When Britain is at war, Can . fle wth it came under Severe ads is at war. There is no dis. 'crincism a year later. It was . tinction." tan efficient target weapon but1 Borden. then o p p o s l t i o n jammed under heavy use. Cs- !ender. had warmly supported nadian troops in battle began that stand. : throwing it away to pick up the But 1914 was a situation never hardy Lee-Enfields from tailen be repeated. ’I'h Statute or ? 31-min mil-lieu. Yet. it wasn't. Westminster 17 years later EEW.‘ ‘ discarded until mid-1916. Canada her mm voice in the. During the Valcsrtier training world and the right to decide. lDePlOd the original target of for herself whether and when to i moot) men for the first overseas ‘0 *0 W3! contingent was ted to 25,- In 1939. Canada‘s Parliament om and—almost at the last minr voted to enter the Second World qitemto 30000 War a week after Britain‘s de» y ARRan 06', ’

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