Canadians in Bexhill-on-Sea during the First World War

A reflection of Canadian nationhood

Bibliographic Data

ID12929933
AuthorsLuke Flanagan (0009-0002-0167-6830, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume27
Issue2
Pages131-148
Publication date2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-8078 • E-ISSN: 0269-9222
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/bjcs.2014.9
OpenAlexW2172206102
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The First World War is surmised to have been a formative event for Canada. Conventional wisdom denotes that the war invoked what Philip Buckner has termed a ‘colony-to-nation framework’, whereby Canada entered the war as a Dominion of Britain and emerged a nation in its own right. This, however, is a contested viewpoint. It is also argued that, although important, the war did not significantly alter the sense of national identity in Canada. Using the location of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex as a case study, this article will show that while there did appear to be a greater sense of attachment to Canada as a result of the war, this was not at the expense of an attachment to the Empire. There was, as Buckner has argued, scope for parallel identities. Nevertheless, despite this attachment, literature produced at Bexhill showed that the war had exacerbated divisions between English and French Canadians

Ancient history · Political science · Reflection (computer programming · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · History · Irish and British Studies

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