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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Canada to China: Starting Out |
An account of Harry Livingstone’s initial train journey across Canada in 1917 and those CLC men moving West. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From Canada to China: The Missionaries |
A short history of Canadian Christian missionaries to China and the role they played in the CLC. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From Canada to France: A Journey Between Oceans |
Black explores the train voyage between Vancouver and Halifax, and highlights the ships selected to take the CLC contingents to Britain and France. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Back Behind Wire |
The chapter examines the hastily set-up transit camp at Petawawa, Ontario, that temporarily housed CLC contingents. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From Canada to France: Death Behind the Lines |
CLC contingents were assigned along the Western Front but primarily in Northern France and Belgium where they were subject to enemy bombing raids and other dangers. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Far From Home, Far From Over |
Almost all CLC contingents remained in Europe following the Armistice, put to work cleaning and clearing the Western front. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Homeward |
Black outlines the homeward journey of many CLC contingents: from Europe to England, to Halifax, to Vancouver, to China. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Off the Water, Onto the Rails |
As more and more CLC contingents boarded trains in Vancouver for their cross-country trip, the Canadian government had difficulty stifling news reports of the men and their mission. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From Canada to France: The Wanted and Unwanted |
The chapter examines Canada’s immigration policies prior to the CLC experiment and ends with Livingstone’s contingent boarding trains heading east. (Chapter includes two photographs) | Dan Black | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From Canada to France: The Western Front |
Livingstone and his CLC contingent arrive in England and travel to France. Black outlines the work being done by Chinese labourers on the Western Front. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From China to Canada: Death at Sea |
Within the story of Livingstone’s return journey to Canada, Black details the conditions on board CLC ships and the many ailments faced by the men of the CLC. (Chapter includes two photographs) | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From China to Canada: Examinations and Inoculations |
The chapter outlines the health and physical requirements CLC recruits had to meet in order to join the corps. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From China to Canada: Life and Death at William Head |
The chapter examines daily life at William Head for the men of the CLC. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From China to Canada: New Arrivals, Old Assumptions |
CLC contingents often spent months at William Head due to outbreaks of small pox, scarlet fever, and other contagious diseases sailing to Canada. (Chapter includes one map and three photographs) | Dan Black | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From China to Canada: Quarantined at William Head |
A short history of William Head, a quarantine station on Canada’s west coast that housed the CLC men arriving from China. (Chapter includes one photograph) | Dan Black | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From China to Canada: Veil of Secrecy |
As Livingstone and a contingent of CLC men set sail for Canada, the Canadian government issues an edict to keep the arrival and transportation of the CLC across the country secret. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
