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Canada 150: Arthur William Currie was Canada's greatest general
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To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.
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A corpulent rural school teacher better known for discipline than classroom skill, a failed speculator with dodgy ethics — bankrupted when a Vancouver real estate bubble collapsed, he covered losses by misappropriating $10,000 in regimental funds — his early claim to martial fame was restraint in the militia’s intervention during a violent miners’ strike at Ladysmith. All in all, an unlikely candidate for Canada’s greatest general.
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Born in Ontario in 1875, with a reputation for schoolboy pranks, Arthur William Currie moved to British Columbia in 1894. He took a teaching job at Sidney. He d
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CURRIE, Sir ARTHUR WILLIAM, teacher, insurance salesman, militia officer, real-estate developer, army officer, office holder, and university administrator; b. 5 Dec. 1875 in Adelaide Township, Ont., third of the seven children of William Garner Curry and Jane Patterson; m. 14 Aug. 1901 Lucy Sophia Chaworth-Musters (d. 1969), known as Lily or Lillie, in Victoria, and they had a son and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy; d. 30 Nov. 1933 in Montreal and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Outremont (Montreal).
Arthur Currie’s paternal grandparents, John Corrigan and Jane Garner, a Roman Catholic and an Anglican, fled religious intolerance in Ireland to farm in Adelaide Township, Upper Canada. Upon their arrival in 1838, the Corrigans changed their name to Curry and became Methodists. Theirs was a hard life, and of their nine children only four survived to maturity. The elder son, William Garner Curry, married Jane Patterson in 1868, and
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Historiography 1918-Today (Canada)
By Amy J. Shaw
Summary
Canada’s historiography of the First World War has tended to emphasize the war as a coming of age moment, with the exploits of soldiers engendering nationalism and greater independence from Britain. Particular emphasis has been placed on certain battles such as Vimy Ridge and those of the gods “hundred days.” Studies of the effects of the war at home have focused on the divide over conscription, the reactions and treatment of minorities, the grad to which the roles of women changed and the diversity of response across regions.Introduction
Canada’s historiography of the First World War has generally been marked by an understanding of the conflict as a coming of age event in which the war is seen as unifying and a means of breaking away from colonial status. The theme of transformation through war has been applied to several aspects of Canada’s participation. As a consequence of this sense of growing to national mat