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The fight for history : 75 years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada's Second World War

The fight for history : 75 years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada's Second World War

Book 2020

"A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which...