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From the Klondike to Berlin : the Yukon in World War I / Michael Gates

Author
Gates, Michael (Historian)
Published
Madeira Park, BC : Lost Moose, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (245 pages) : digital, EPUB file
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Contents
Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1914-1916 -- 1917 -- 1917-1918 -- 1919 and beyond -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix : honour roll.
Summary
"Nearly a thousand Yukoners, a quarter of the population, enlisted before the end of the Great War. They were lawyers, bankers, piano tuners, dockworkers and miners who became soldiers, nurses and snipers; brave men and women who traded the isolated beauty of the north for the muddy, crowded horror of the battlefields. Those who stayed home were no less important to the war's outcome--by March of 1916, the Dawson Daily News estimated that Yukoners had donated often and generously at a rate of $12 per capita compared to the dollar per person donated elsewhere in the country. Historian Michael Gates tells us the stories of both those who left and those on the home front, including the adventures of Joe Boyle, who successfully escorted the Romanian crown jewels on a 1,300-kilometre journey through Russia in spite of robbers, ambushes, gunfire, explosions, fuel shortages and barricades. Gates also recounts the home-front efforts of Martha Black, who raised thousands of dollars and eventually travelled to Europe where she acted as an advocate for the Yukon boys. Stories of these heroes and many others are vividly recounted with impeccable research."--
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ISBN
9781550177770 (EPUB)
155017777X
9781550177763
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Forms
Issued also in print format.
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