Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Timeline
• Map
• Section One - Albertains at War: The Military
• An Old Soldier Fades Away: Major General Sir Sam Steele in the First World War
• Rod Macleod
• Raymond Brutinel and the Genesiss of Modern Mechanized Warfare
• Juliette Champagne and Major (Retd.) Joahn Matthews
• While You Were Away: Alberta's First World War Aviation History
• Patricia Myers
• Building on the Home Front: Armouries and Other Infrastructure
• Kathryn Ivany
• Aboriginal Alberta and the First World War
• L. James Dempsey
• Scattered by the Whirlwind: Alberta Chaplains and the Great War
• Duff Crerar
• The Experiences of Lethbridge Men Overseas, 1914-1918
• Brett Clifton
• Sid Unwin's War
• Michale Lang
• Alberta Remittance Men in the Great War
• Ryan Flavelle
• The Effects of the First World War on the Franco-European Immigrants of Alberta
• Juliette Champagne
• The Little Institution that Could: The University of Alberta and the First World War
• David Borys
• The Gospel of Sacrifice: Lady Principal Nettie Burkholder and Her Boys at the Front
• Adriana A. Davies
• Medical Contributions of Albertans in the First World War: Raising to the Challenge
• J. Robert Lampard
• Harold and Emma McGill: A War-Front Love Story
• Antonella Fanella
• Private Stephen Smith and His Trench Art Belts
• Allan Kerr and Doug Styles
• Section Two - The Home Front: Context and Meaning
• Enthusiasm Embattled: Alberta 1916
• Duff Crerar
• Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War
• Aritha van Herk
• "O Valiant hearts who to your glory day came": Protestant Responses to Alberta's Great War
• Norman Knowles
• Alberta Women in the First World War: A Genius for Organization
• Adriana A. Davies
• Armageddon: Alberta Newspapers and the Outbreak of the Great War, 1914
• David Joseph Glalant
• Edmonton's Local Heroes
• Stephen Greenhalgh
• Voices of War: The Press and the Personal
• Jeff Keshen
• From Local to National: Pictorial Propaganda in Alberta During the First World War
• Catherine C. Cole
• The Bosworth Expedition: An Early Petroleum Survey
• Peter Mckenzie-Brown
• Section Three - Communities at War
• The First World War as a Local Experience: Mobilization, Citizen Voluntary Support and Memorializing the Sacrifice in Lethbridge, Alberta
• Robert Rutherdale
• Red Deer and the First World War
• Michael Dawe
• Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau Signature Quilt
• Adriana A. Davies, Sean Moir, and Anthony Worman
• Calgary's Grand Theatre in the Great War
• Donald B. Smith
• Student Life on the University of Alberta Campus During the Great War
• Jarett Henderson
• Under Siege: The CEF Attack on the RNWMP Barracks in Calgary, October 1916
• P. Whitney Lackenbauer
• Canada's First national Interment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association
• Kassandra Luciuk
• Conscientious Objectors in Alberta in the First World War
• Amy J. Shaw
• Section Four - Aftermath
• War, Public Health and the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic in Alberta
• Mark Osborne Humphries
• Applying Modernity: Local Government and the 1919 Federal Housing Scheme in Alberta
• Donald G. Wethrell
• Soldier Settlement in Alberta, 1917-1931
• Allan Rowe
• First World War Centennial Commemoration in Alberta Museums
• Rory Cory
• Appendix: Alberta Formations Raised in the First World War
• List of Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Alvin Finkel is a professor of history at Athabasca University, Alberta. His publications include leading texts in Canadian history, as well as monographs on social policy, western Canadian political history, and interwar European politics. He has published widely on social policy issues. Current book review editor of Labour/Le Travail , Alvin Finkel is also the past editor of Prairie Forum . Mark Osborne Humphries is Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS). He is the author of numerous publications, including The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (2013). ADRIANA A. DAVIES is a well-known researcher, writer, editor and poet. She was the Executive Director of the Alberta Museums Association for thirteen years and founding Executive Director of the Heritage Community Foundation. JEFF KESHEN is Dean of Arts at Mount Royal University. He is also an adjunct professor in the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Catherine C. Cole is an Edmonton-based arts and heritage consultant. Her exhibitions and publications deal with Western Canadian labour and social and industrial history. She is the project manager and guest curator of the virtual exhibitions Piece by Piece: The GWG Story and Before E-Commerce: A History of Canadian Mail Order Catalogues and the author of Inventive Spirit: Alberta Patents from 1905-1975.

Reviews

The Frontier of Patriotism is a terrific addition to scholarship of the Great War, and a welcome companion to the many broader histories that have previously been written. - Mark Collin, Canada's History Magazine