PERLS204 Lecture : PM Borden was the PM during WW1 March 7.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS204
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

Pm borden was the pm during ww1. He was a conservative and remained pm til 1920. He granted a military exemption to farmers in 1917. A crisis was bubbling in quebec about some children being sent to war. However, 2 weeks later, he retracted this exemption and this infuriated the west. This established a pattern of western protest. There were songbooks published by the industrial workers of the world such as the one published in 1917. With such revealing titles as dump the bosses off your back , i"m too old to be a scab , and. There is power in a union , its not surprising that this songbook of the radical, american- based, revolutionary union, the industrial workers of the world (iww), hoped to fan the flames of discontent . After the war, canada was plunged into a recession. For the first part of the decade, canada was in recession due to the war debt.