I will tell you one thing, Whereas some people after WWII bellied up opportunistically to the political trough i.e. Gordon, Nielsen et al, and their palms and leanings may have been left.. 90% of the volunteers of the CDN expeditionary force were from Southern Ontario, and the western Provinces. Some from the maritimes. In WWI they rallied to the cause of the Empire, Grt. Britain -- and the cry was for King and Country. There were IODE and Orange lodge drives all over, and that got many signed up. The IODE and the Orange are conservative by definition. Since the liberalia were anti-monarchists from the start, with things like the Nichols resolution proposed but never passed, refusing British honours for CDN citoyens, it hardly seems likely that in a staunchly conservative Ontario and west, an anti-monarchist, British-disparaging voter would have signed up. After all you signed up for the British army in WWI. There was no Canadian army. That (CDNization of the army.) did not happen until WWII and then it was called the Royal CDN army navy and airforce, and it was attached to and commanded by British Generals even then. There was always some CDN general or other fronting the unit, but a British officer was always attached to the unit and from that officer were where the battle plans and commands came from.
Prior to Chretien's election, if you disregard Quebec, the conservatives would have been landslide elected Federally for 100 years. Liberal seats outside the maritimes and Quebec were not many. One or two in Northern Ontario, a few in the Maritimes, and absolutely non in the rest of Canada. So I am probably right in assuming few liberals would have been volunteers in the First War. The liberals won one seat in Toronto at the turn of the century, and not much if any after that. Ontario was conservative for 130 or more years and that was most of the CEF.
When the liberals finally won big in Canada with more than a minority government, 90% of their delegates were from Quebec and the rest from the maritimes. The Duplessis machine was liberal. As far as I know there were only a scant few Quebecois in either WWI or WWII. The 22nd regiment from Montreal was 1500 men. Canada sent 600,000 soldiers to WWI. And then there was the merchant marine. I will bet dollars to donuts that just based on the demographics the Canadian army of 1914 was 85% conservative voting.
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