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The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919

Killing, Combat and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: Legendary Soldiers’ Stories of the First World War – 1914-1918

Introduction Part I. Mobile Warfare, 1914: 1. The first campaign Part II. Trench Warfare, 1914-17: 2. Land 3. Administration 4. Billet 5. Communication 6. Friction 7. Farms 8. Damages 9. Money 10. Discipline 11. Sex Part III. Mobile Warfare, 1918: 12. The final campaign Conclusion Epilogue Appendices Bibliography.

Behind the Front: British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914-1918

This dissertation inserts servicewomen into military history and women’s and gender history by analyzing how women voiced their place in the Canadian military between 1938 and 1966. It studies how women negotiated the conditions of their service during the Second World War, resisted demobilization in 1946, and shaped the terms on which women entered the forces permanently in 1966. Drawing on official texts, unofficial histories, and personal scrapbooks, the thesis identifies the voices of women who pursued military careers and makes three arguments. First, women have actively negotiated with defence officials for a place in the armed services in war and peace. Second, servicewomen have adopted a perspective that went beyond the war in their plans for future service and their reflections on past service. Third, servicewomen crafted their legacies and pushed for recognition of female military expertise. The thesis moves beyond Ruth Roach Pierson’s pioneering work on women in the Second World War to consider women’s long-term identifications with the forces.
Chapter one covers the establishment of the wartime women’s services. Chapter two studies wartime debates over alcohol and sexual (im)morality. Chapter three analyzes reports on the future of women in the forces written in 1946 by Acting Captain Adelaide Sinclair, Lieutenant-Colonel Daisy Royal, and an unnamed senior member of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Chapter four examines women’s continued participation in the military community through veteran’s organizations and cadet groups, and discussions over their place in the armed services between 1946 and 1955. Chapter five concentrates on a 1965 study recommending a permanent place for women in the services. Chapter six explores how servicewomen narrated their histories in scrapbooks and unofficial histories.
The research answers Cynthia Enloe’s appeal to listen carefully to women inside the military, and identifies ways women’s voices have been silenced, by both defence officials and scholars. The thesis highlights the military as a site of feminism, linking paramilitary women, servicewomen, veteran’s organizations, and cadets. Studying women’s negotiation of their military roles and their history reveals the policing of gender norms in the armed services, Canadian society, and the scholarship of the Second World War.

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Women Inside the Canadian Military, 1938-1966

With few exceptions, Canadian historians remain divided between those who write the social and political history of the home front and those interested in what happened overseas.1 While historians of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (cef) and its soldiers have been influenced by shifting interpretations in the British field, our historiography has also been characterized more by consensus than debate.2 The home front and battlefield literatures have essentially evolved independently of one another. While most historians of the former emphasize the divisive nature of the Great War and question whether older colony-to-nation narratives can capture the diversity of the Canadian experience, historians of operations and the cef experience have sometimes been less critical, writing in a positivist, nationalistic tradition, which retains the nation-building narrative as a core focus. In large measure this is because military historians are more often motivated by a commemoration impulse, which then shapes the nature of

Between Commemoration and History: The Historiography of the Canadian Corps and Military Overseas

Focusing on resistance, this article examines naval impressment in British North America from 1775 to 1815. Although neglected in Canadian historiography, press gangs sparked urban unrest and political turmoil in seaports such as Halifax, St John's, and Quebec City. Impressment reached into most coastal areas of British North America by the early nineteenth century and its sailors and inhabitants employed a range of strategies to resist it. They also confronted it directly, sometimes with violent results. Press gang riots in St John's in 1794 and Halifax in 1805 led to a prohibition on impressment on shore for much of the Napoleonic Wars. Popular protest served as the catalyst for official resistance to the British Navy and had a lasting impact on civil–naval relations in the North Atlantic world. While the study of popular disturbances in Canadian history usually begins in the mid-nineteenth century, this paper shows that they were important in earlier generations as well. This was often the re...

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The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919

Citations

Killing, Combat and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry: Legendary Soldiers’ Stories of the First World War – 1914-1918

Behind the Front: British Soldiers and French Civilians, 1914-1918

Women Inside the Canadian Military, 1938-1966

Between Commemoration and History: The Historiography of the Canadian Corps and Military Overseas

Northern Exposure: Resistance to Naval Impressment in British North America, 1775–1815

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