Canada, a people's history. Volume 8

Turgeon, Pierre, 1947- (Added Author). Gillmor, Don. (Added Author). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Added Author).

Summary: The first episode covers 1915 to 1929. Canada's heavy military role in World War I (60,000 dead in a population of 8 million) transforms its society, its politics and its place in the world. The horror, bravery and sacrifice of trench warfare is evoked in Canada's great battles: Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Courcelette and Passchendaele. The domestic consequences of Canada's war effort are also wrenching - the conscription crisis of 1917 makes a low point in English-French relations. After the war ends, labour revolts in Winnipeg and across the country raise fears of a Bolshevik insurrection. The return to stability in the mid-1920s lasts only briefly as the crash of 1929 plunges the country into economic chaos.

Record details

ISBN: 1552591298
ISBN: 1552591115 (set: v.79)
Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
2 videodiscs (approx. 240 min.) : | videorecording 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Widescreen letterbox version.
Publisher: [Toronto] : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation : Distributed exclusively in Canada by Morningstar Entertainment, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from disc label. "Series 3." Special DVD features: Interactive menu; chapter indexing. Based on: Canada: a people's history / Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon.
Formatted Contents Note:	disc 1. Ordeal by fire -- disc 2. Hard times.
System Details Note:	DVD; Dolby digital stereo.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.