Canada’s military effort in World War I put the country into the world stage. When the war started in 1914, Canada had only 3000 soldiers in their regular army, but were backed up by 60,000 reservists who however were very poorly trained. But, by 1918, Canada had a very large military, with an army very advanced and with numbers of around 600,000 soldiers. They had four infantry divisions which fought alongside British forces overseas. More than 60,000 Canadian soldiers died in World War I.

Canada, automatically entered the war in 1914 when Great Britain did, this was unquestioned and greatly supported by the people of Canada, coast to coast. Even though Canada’s regular army started out relatively small and weak, within two weeks of the conflict’s start, over 32,000 men had enlisted into the army and had begun training. The Canadian soldiers were sent to England for training, the trained on the Salisbury Plains through a long cold and harsh winter. The Canadian solders first en

“Approximately 14,000 Canadians landed in Normandy on D-Day. Inevitably the cost was considerable, but not nearly as high as had been feared. The Canadian assault force suffered 1,074 casualties, of which 359 were fatal.”

“The Second World War began at dawn on September 1, 1939 as the German armies swept into Poland. With the full fury of the blitzkrieg - the lightning war - the German armoured divisions destroyed Polish defences in the west. The Soviet troops, as previously agreed with Germany, crossed the eastern frontier. Trapped between two advancing armies Polish resistance ended. Poland surrendered.” Britain and France who had pledged to Poland earlier, declared war on Germany. Canada was not obliged to follow as they were in World War II but they followed anyway on September 9 Canada’s senate had approved support to Britain and France.

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