HIST 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Charlottetown Conference, Canadians Of German Ethnicity, National Post
26 Sep 2016
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Mythology of vimy ridge- through civil society, culture, create understandings of our society that even have large parts of historical accuracy, tend to homogenize our understandings of the event. Charlottetown conference): myth has validity for large portions of population, but has limitation, not just canadian boys taking the ridge, but canada demonstrating among its key allies it could hold its own strategically and its soldier. The war was a legitimate feeling of canadian nation being born. Wwi not based on clear and cut political lines like wwii, but based on old empires, different interpretations of treaties, not case that western powers were the good guys. Reality: war not ment to fight to liberate people on verge of people holocausted, but war fought because part of imperial political system. But not good at mythologizing, not good at remembering fallen soldiers. Important for families needed a form of justification.
