Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, QuebecUBC Press, 1 nov. 2011 - 296 pages In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada's war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War. |
Table des matières
Studying War at the Local Level | 3 |
1 Forging a Community | 7 |
2 Once More into the Breach | 21 |
3 City Hall Goes to War | 50 |
4 The Peoples Response | 78 |
5 Institutions and Industry | 107 |
6 Family and Social Dislocation | 136 |
7 The Political War | 169 |
8 Peace and Reconstruction | 191 |
Conclusion | 201 |
Notes | 206 |
Select Bibliography | 252 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec Serge Marc Durflinger Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec Serge Marc Durflinger Aucun aperçu disponible - 2006 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
active service April army August Beurling Black Watch British campaign Canada city hall City of Verdun city’s civilian conscription Coté Council Minutes December Defence Dunver Edward Wilson effort election English speakers English-speaking enlistment executive committee families February federal file first flats French Canadian French speakers French-speaking Gazette Montreal George Beurling Granatstein groups Guardian Verdun housing Ianuary interview by author Ioan Adams Iuly Iune large number Liberal linguistic March Mayor’s Cigarette Fund McGill University Messenger/Le Messager Verdun military Montreal area Montreal Daily Star MSWL municipal November NRMA October officers ofthe organized Ottawa overseas patriotic percent population Press provincial Quebec RCAF Red Cross residents Royal Canadian Second World Second World War September 1939 served servicemen social Société soldiers St Willibrord tion Toronto Verdun Auditorium Verdun Borough Verdun Borough Archives Verdun branch Verdunites veterans vote Ward wartime Westmount women wrote WVRC zooters