Abstract

A Canadian Community Carrying On

The article focuses on the role played by the inhabitants of Edmonton, capital of the province of Alberta in Canada, in the First World War. From Edmonton and its tributary district, a little over 21,000 men, Canadian Expeditionary Force and Reservists of the Allied countries, have gone to the front since the war began. The confusion and haste of recruitment had been such that at first no adequate official record of soldiers' dependents was available. Registration blanks were prepared, advertisements were inserted in the daily newspapers, cooperation of the druggists was obtained, and by these means, and by personal search, approximately complete lists of soldiers' dependents were compiled long before the government at Ottawa took any action.