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Writing on the Great War at the Centenary: Recent Books on Canada’s First World War

More than a century now separates us from the opening salvoes of the First World War, yet the conflict continues to stimulate new scholarship, discussion, and public debate in Canada. Most recently, the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation has garnered national attention, much of it highly critical, for its proposal to build an ostentatious 24-metre tall war memorial on the Cabot Trail at Green Cove, Nova Scotia. The prospective memorial site would be dedicated to all of Canada’s war dead—not exclusively those of the 1914-19 conflict—but the design is very clearly inspired by the iconic figure of Canada Bereft (more commonly referred to as Mother Canada), a central piece of statuary on the Vimy National Memorial in France. This is likely no coincidence, as many twenty-first-century Canadians look to the Battle of