1916.  As the Canadian Expeditionary Force matures, its soldiers, officers, and (eventually) the politicians back in Ottawa come to realize it has outgrown its erratic creator, Militia Minister Sam Hughes. 

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1915. A group of writers, journalists and activists based in Winnipeg, score the first victory for Canada's women's suffrage movement.

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The Canadian economy, still reeling from a post-war recession, struggles to meet the production total war demands.

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Spring 1915.  The Canadian government grapples with the fact that over 100,000 residents in the country are foreign nationals, native to countries Canada is now at war with.

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Spring 1915.  The Canadian Expeditionary Force prepares for its first battle outside the Belgian city of Ypres, where, unbeknownst to the Canadians, the Germans make their own preparations to unleash a terrifying new weapon.  

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Summer 1914.  Canadians prepare for a war far from their shores, that will nevertheless change their lives forever. 

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1867-1914.  How did we get here?  Where are we going next?

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Summer 1914.  Ireland teeters on the brink of civil war, re-opening old sectarian divisions in Canada.

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1914. A Sikh businessman charters a Japanese passenger liner to test Canada's anti-Asian immigration laws, while anxious British officials and Indian nationalists look on. 

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1914. In India, the British government attempts to convince a growing independence movement that Indians enjoy all the benefits of subjecthood, including free movement within the Empire.  A key test of that proposition comes in British Columbia.

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