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  • · After WWI Canada was known as an independent country, not just part of Britain's Empire
  • · Immigrants had come to Canada and taken all the soldiers jobs when they were gone.
  • · Most of the nation had no jobs or money
  • · Was low on money
  • · Canada has spent most of its money on the war
  • · Country went into a depression after the war with some bloody riots
  • · Casualties rate high - 66,000 dead and 127,000 wounded out of 620,000 soldiers
  • · Veterans returned home with no jobs
  • · Conscription divided the country
  • · High cost of war (taxes, victory bonds)
  • · Spanish Flu 20 to 40 million dead world wide
  • · Gave Canadians national pride
  • · Victorious
  • · Some women received right to vote
  • · Had to borrow $2500 million to finance the war
  • · During 1917 - 1922 we borrowed $700 million to create Canadian National Railway
  • · Economy prospered and manufacturing industries grew (visual page 127 of Spotlight)
  • · Women roles changes - worked in factories
  • · Seat in the league of Nations
  • · Received respect from other nations (Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge)
  • · Germany took full responsibility for WW1
  • · Germany agreed to pay for the full cost of the war $30 billion
  • · All German colonies were surrendered to the allies (Shanghai, Cameroon, central Africa)
  • · The French were alienated
  • · By 1918 the war was costing Canada one million dollars a day
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