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A Time Such as There Never Was Before: Canada After the Great War

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Ottawa Book Award 2015 — Shortlisted


Between 1918 and 1921 a perfect storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world wherein all things would be imaginable.|

The years after World War I were a few of the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, within the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never Used to be before.”

The war had been a perfect crusade, promising a world made new. Nevertheless it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and plenty of more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young, diverse country. In a nation struggling to define itself and its place on this planet, labour, farmers, businessmen, churches, social reformers, and minorities had extravagant hopes, irrational fears, and contradictory demands.

What had this sacrifice achieved? Whose hopes would be realized and whose dreams would end in disillusionment? Which changes would prove permanent and which would be transitory? A Time Such As There Never Used to be Before describes how this exciting period laid the foundation of the Canada we know these days.

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