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Canada. Military Service Council
A government body rather than a single writer, this wartime Canadian council published urgent, persuasive works during the First World War. Its books offer a direct window into the language of duty, citizenship, and conscription in 1917 Canada.
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For the defence of Canada
by Canada. Military Service Council
About the author
Canada’s Military Service Council was a Canadian government body, not an individual author. It is credited with works including For the Defence of Canada and The Military Service Act; Its Meaning and Effect, both associated with the conscription debates of 1917.
These publications were written to explain and defend wartime policy during the First World War. Read today, they are less a personal literary voice than a historical record of how the Canadian state argued for military service, national obligation, and sacrifice in a moment of intense public debate.
For listeners interested in wartime history, propaganda, or Canada’s home-front politics, works credited to the Military Service Council are valuable for their immediacy and official perspective.