For All We Have and Are: Regina and the Experience of the Great War

Product description Review "[This] book should be welcomed, for it provides a wealth of information about the ways the war affected ethnic and class relations, gender identity, Canadian citizenship, social movements, and politics. For All We Have And Are contextualizes these issues in a regional centre and provincial capital convinced its success depended on a wheat economy sucked dry by the 'Big Interests' in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. The Anglo-Canadian majority in the city of 30,000 were also convinced of the superiority of the 'British civilization' to which they belonged. Pitsula's exploration of the way the war emboldened this ethno-cultural bias and its consequences for the large proportion of non-British immigrants in the city (many of whom lived in Regina's 'Germantown') and province is one of the book's major strengths."--Nathan Smith "University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2010""Between the battlefield and the home front, Regina contributed policies, produce, and people to Canada's war effort. The city was affected by many of the same issues that faced the rest of the nation: loyalty of immigrants, maximizing production, conscription, and social reform movements. Though unique in many ways, Pitsula demonstrates that the city was trying to adhere to emerging Canadian ideals and values. For this reason, For All We Have and Are is not only an in-depth study of Regina and Saskatchewan in the First World War, but an accurate look at the Canadian war experience."-- "Canadian Military History, Autumn 2009" About the Author James M. Pitsula is a professor of Canadian history at the University of Regina. He is the author of five books in political and social history.