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The Veterans Charter and post-World War II Canada /

"Rehabilitating Canada's armed forces to civilian life following World War II was a massive undertaking. The Veterans Charter, the program devised by the federal government to do this, promised to provide "opportunity with security" and was one of the building blocks of the Canad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Neary, Peter, 1938- (Editor ), Granatstein, J. L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Peter Neary
  • The Canadian veterans' heritage from the Great War / Desmond Morton
  • Awaiting return : life in the Canadian Army's overseas repatriation depots, 1945-1946 / Dean F. Oliver
  • Getting it right the second time around : the reintegration of Canadian veterans of World War II / Jeff Keshen
  • The Veterans Charter : the compensation principle and the principle of recognition for service / Don Ives
  • National Selective Service and employment and seniority rights for veterans, 1943-1946 / Michael D. Stevenson
  • Canadian universities and Canadian veterans of World War II / Peter Neary
  • From neurasthenia to post-traumatic stress disorder : Canadian veterans and the problem of persistent emotional disabilities / Terry Copp
  • Going back to main street : the development and impact of casualty rehabilitation for veterans with disabilities, 1945-1948 / Mary Tremblay
  • Family allowances, old age security, and the construction of entitlement in the Canadian welfare state, 1943-1951 / James Struthers
  • Canadian domesticity in the postwar era / Doug Owram
  • A half-century on : the veterans' experience / J.L. Granatstein.