1996/01/01 by Denise Thomson · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.3138/jcs.30.4.5
openalex publication_date 1996/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Following the Great War, a new tradition of commemoration of the war dead developed in Canada. The forms and practices of this new tradition were originally common to all members of the British Empire. However, during the interwar period Canadian commemoration gradually came to reflect an increasingly assertive nationalism, a process which reached its culmination with the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial in 1936. The force behind the perpetuation of Canadian commemoration at this time was the determination of veterans of the Great War not to let the war dead be forgotten.