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I

A sunny people, and a sunny year— “One Flag, One Fleet, One Throne”

II

The Lauriers of St. Lin—The Bordens of Nova Scotia—The Bourassas and Papineaus of Montebello

III

The strange, voluptuous fascination of the tariff—The Conservatives take over with help from abroad

IV

The incomparable Sam Hughes

V

An obnoxious young man named Winston Churchill—The defeat of the naval bill

VI

The Stringency and the collapse of the land boom—Farewell to Eureka Park

VII

The king and the duke—The strange saga of Mackenzie and Mann and the Canadian Northern Railway

VIII

Colonel Hughes creates the first contingent—“There is only one feeling as to Sam, that he is crazy.”

IX

Life and death in the trenches—The gas attack at Ypres

X

Pacifism and isolationism—The battles of Loos and the Mound

XI

The remarkable adventures of Colonel J. Wesley Allison

XII

The most loved, hated, and debated military, weapon of its time: the Ross rifle

XIII

Exit Sam Hughes—“Tell ’em to go like blazes!”

XIV

The fateful hinge of Verdun—The counterhinge of the Somme—Enter the “landship,” cistern, or reservoir, finally called the tank

XV

Quebec has its second thoughts about the war—Ontario has its second thoughts about Quebec—The fight over the schools and the Mlles. Desloges

XVI

The battle of Vimy Ridge

XVII

Conscription—Union government and the fall of Laurier

XVIII

Passchendaele—The last German counterattack

XIX

The Black Day and the Hundred Days—The battle in the air and Canada’s part

XX

The hazards of peace—The Winnipeg general strike

XXI

The Age of the Aging Turks—The departure of Robert Laird Borden

XXII

The advent of Arthur Meighen—The expensive luxury of lecturing Mackenzie King

XXIII

William Lyon Mackenzie King—The two women in his life—The labor conciliator and the disciple of Laurier

XXIV

King and the Rockefellers—Mother Jones and the Colorado mines—A plan that worked

XXV

Industry and Humanity—King becomes his party’s leader

XXVI

The pull of gravity and the U.S.A.—“WLW, the Nation’s Station, Cincinnati!”—The Black and Tans and the surge of nationalism—The tour of the Prince of Wales

XXVII

The farmers try their strength—The rise of the Progressives and the beginning of their fall

XXVIII

The Chanak affair—Canada rejects the motto “Ready, aye, ready!”

XXIX

The emergence of the Left—James Woodsworth and Tim Buck

XXX

Prohibition in the United States and rumrunning in Canada—“Lean up against the counter and make a gurgling sigh.”

XXXI

Another close victory for the government—The customs scandal comes into the open—The barge Tremblay, Chicago Benny, Joseph Bisaillon, and Moses Aziz

XXXII

The Constitutional Crisis—The Liberals evade a desperate defeat and Meighen makes way for R. B. Bennett

XXXIII

The splendid euphoria of the rumrunning days—The Diamond Jubilee and the Briand-Kellogg Pact

XXXIV

The market crash and the Depression—King’s historic Five-Cent Piece

XXXV

King loses his confidence—Bennett inherits the Depression

XXXVI

The great bonanza of Beauharnois—A few hundred thousand dollars for a few enterprising senators

XXXVII

R. B. Bennett comes to office—The unlucky coincidence with Herbert Hoover

XXXVIII

The Left makes its bid—Disappointments for the C.C.F. and the Communists, for Woodsworth and Tim Buck

XXXIX

The resurgence of the provinces—Social Credit and William Aberhart—The astonishing revolt of R. B. Bennett

XL

Canada saves and then helps destroy the League of Nations—Munich, Ethiopia, and the start of the Second World War

$11,004 NEEDED STILL BY FRESH AIR FUND

FOIL GRIMSBY BANK HOLDUP, NAB SUSPECT

SENATOR FRANK O’CONNOR DIES, LONG ILL

COBB SETS WORLD MARK, 368.85 M.P.H.

TORONTO MAN NEW SALVATION ARMY HEAD

WOUNDED FATHER AND SON ROUT THREE GUNMEN

BLAST WRECKS HOUSE, ALARMS NEIGHBORS

XLI

King meets two challenges—First from Duplessis and Quebec, then from Hepburn and Ontario

XLII

The Canadian Army and its false starts—The Air Force and the Battle of Britain

XLIII

The Royal Canadian Navy—The handy whaling ship called the corvette—The Battle of the Atlantic

XLIV

The R Men and the A Men—The start of another long dispute over conscription—The disaster of Hong Kong

XLV

The magnificent fiasco of Dieppe—Its costs and its returns

XLVI

Franklin D. Roosevelt and some important bargains between Canada and the United States—Meighen loses a by-election—The plebiscite

XLVII

Goebbels views the R.C.A.F.—Some difficulties over the Air Training Plan—The campaign in Sicily

XLVIII

The firing of McNaughton—Italy and the battle of Ortona

XLIX

The question of a unified Empire again—The disastrous speech of Lord Halifax

L

The assault into Normandy—The advance to the Scheldt

LI

The reinforcement problem—McNaughton re-enters and Ralston departs

LII

Conscription again—The Zombies go to war—The end of the battle in Europe

LIII

The departure of the Aging Turks—Ontario gets a new school reader

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