The Frontier of Patriotism : Alberta and the First World War.

Cover -- Series page -- Full title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- TIMELINE -- SECTION ONE: Albertans at War: The Military -- Colour Insert -- An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War -- Raymond Brutinel and the Genesis of Modern Mechanized Warfare -- While You Were Away: Alberta's First World War Aviation History -- Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure -- Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War -- The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914-1918 -- Sid Unwin's War -- Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War -- The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of Alberta -- The Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War -- The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front -- Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Rising to the Challenge -- Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story -- Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts -- SECTION TWO: The Home Front: Context and Meaning -- Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916 -- Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War -- "O valiant hearts who to your glory came": Protestant Responses to Alberta's Great War -- Alberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization -- Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914 -- Edmonton's Local Heroes -- Voices of War: The Press and the Personal -- From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta during the First World War -- The Great War and Labour in Alberta -- The Great Western Garment Company during the First World War -- The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey -- SECTION THREE: Communities at War -- Edmonton and the Great War.

The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support, and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, Alberta -- Red Deer and the First World War -- Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt -- Calgary's Grand Theatre in the Great War -- Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus during the First World War -- Mobilizing Mount Royal: Capturing Campus Contributions to the Great War -- Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916 -- Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association -- Conscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War -- SECTION FOUR: Aftermath -- War, Public Health, and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta -- Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta -- Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931 -- First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums -- APPENDIX -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Back Cover.

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