Canada Entered The War On August 10, 1914, Sending 25 000 Volunteers With A Prom

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Term Paper Title	Canada Entered The War On August 10, 1914, Sending 25 000 Volunteers With A Prom
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Canada entered the war on August 10, 1914, sending 25 000 volunteers with a promise from Britain that they would return home by Christmas. However, when the war began to escalate Canada sent more troops to Europe.  Meanwhile, the economy at home was forced to change in order to accommodate the war.  On the "Home Front" as it was known, Canada was going though the greatest economic change that it had ever experienced. Because of the war, many new industries were formed in Canada's cities.  In these factories guns, food, munitions and other war supplies were produced for the soldiers overseas.  In addition, rural Canada went through great economic changes.  To feed Allied troops, Canadian farmers expanded their farms in order to produce upwards of four times more food than they had to before.  Allied forces desperately needed the food they produced for the soldiers.  Women began to play important roles in Canada's economy.  While Canada's men were fighting, women picked where they left off in the workforce.  They were key in the war effort, as well as keeping Canada's economy running.  Resource industries in Canada also expanded and Canada's marketplace began to grow.
     During the war, demands for Canadian goods went up in Europe and in Canada.  Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada to skyrocket, as prices on most products nearly doubled.  The workers wages went up as well, but they didn't keep up with the inflationary prices.  Workers therefore had to do with less.  During this time the government expenditures on the war were enormous.  The war was costing Canadians a million dollars per day.  For a country of only eight million this was an extremely large burden.  In order to raise funds, the government introduced income tax, and sales tax and luxury tax. They also borrowed money from the people through Victory Bonds.
When the last shot was fired in World War 1 on November 11, 1918, Canada had gone though a great economic transformation; the economic changes the country endured would influence it forever.
     After the war, Canadian soldiers came home expecting to be regarded as heroes.  Instead they came home to unemployment, because the munitions factories and army supply factories were shut down.  Canada had to adjust from war economy to a peacetime economy.  Unemployment was very high, and they government couldn't do very much because they were still recovering from the economic losses due to the war.  In the early 1820's Canadian worker...

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