David Charles Motley was a BC born man who joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve at age 19. Motley attended high school for 1 year then dropped out and worked in labour until he volunteered to participate in the war where he eventually died. I chose David Charles Motley because I wanted someone who […]

The roaring twenties, more like the rotten twenties. 1920 in Canada started off rough, a fifteen percent unemployment rate, unrest among returning soldiers from the great war and a collapse in the wheat market making farmers suffer. But by the mid twenties things started to look up, demand for Canadian materials increased and employment improved. But behind […]

Time in the trenches was not comfortable living, nor was it easy, enjoyable or remotely happy. But in these rat riddled rotten trenches history was made. Canada took WWI by storm, a new power in a new war, Canadian soldiers fighting for something bigger than them selves, national identity. Canadians became themselves during World War […]