| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) : digital, EPUB file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Form |
Issued also in print format. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Access |
Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. CaOONL |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Yukon.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Yukon.
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Soldiers -- Yukon -- Biography.
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Soldiers. |
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Yukon. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Heroes -- Yukon -- Biography.
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Heroes. |
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Yukon -- Biography.
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Yukon -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
War work. |
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World War (1914-1918) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Gates, Michael, 1949-, author. From the Klondike to Berlin.: Madeira Park, BC : Lost Moose, 2017 (CaOONL)20179005995 |
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Print version: Gates, Michael (Historian). From the Klondike to Berlin. Madeira Park, British Columbia : Lost Moose, [2017] 1550177761 9781550177763 (DLC) 2017415386 (OCoLC)972181945 |
| ISBN |
9781550177770 (EPUB) |
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155017777X |
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9781550177763 |
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