To: E. Charters who wrote (6331 ) 4/14/2005 11:04:09 AM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to 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.
