The Triple Entente vs. the Central PowersAt the start of the war, the Triple Entente powers were:
By war’s end, some 619,000 Canadians had enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service overseas. This was an enormous contribution from a population of just under 8 million in 1914. Approximately seven percent of the total population of Canada was in uniform at some point during the war, and hundreds of thousands of additional Canadians worked on the home front in support of the war. |
Close to 61,000 Canadians were killed during the war, and another 172,000 were wounded. Many more returned home broken in mind and body. The small colony of Newfoundland suffered 1,305 killed and several thousand wounded.
Canada emerged from the First World War a proud, victorious nation with new found standing in the world. It also emerged grieving and divided, forever changed by the war’s unprecedented exertions and horrific costs. (www.warmuseum.ca) |
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