From the frontier to the front : imagined community and the Southwestern Alberta Great War experience

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dc.contributor.authorClifton, Brett
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMacDonald, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-22T20:34:32Z
dc.date.available2017-02-22T20:34:32Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractAs Canada joins other nations in observing a succession of First World War centenaries, the public narrative constructed over the past hundred years holds up the Great War, particularly the battle for Vimy Ridge, as a pivotal point in Canadian history that forged our national identity. This thesis sets aside this romanticised and idealised construct, focusing upon the regional and cultural variations specific to Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta. While much work has been done on the French-English divide, comparatively few microstudies have examined the distinctive experiences and regional nuances of other communities within this vast and diverse nation. This work examines the settlement processes and previous martial and militia experiences of Southwestern Alberta, in an effort to explain the uniqueness of the local Great War experience. Included in this analysis are themes related to propaganda and censorship, recruitment and enlistment, and the construction of memory and meaning through commemoration.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4780
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0334en_US
dc.proquest.subject0722en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectconforming populationsen_US
dc.subjectconstructed mythen_US
dc.subjectimagined wartime communityen_US
dc.subjectLethbridge's war experiencesen_US
dc.subjectnon-conforming populationsen_US
dc.subjectshared war experiencesen_US
dc.titleFrom the frontier to the front : imagined community and the Southwestern Alberta Great War experienceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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