Matthew Evenden. Allied Power

The phrase “Canada’s Second World War” conjures many images. There are the high politics of Canadian-American continental defense exemplified by the Ogdensburg Agreement (1940) and the Hyde Park Declaration (1941), as well as the 1943 and 1944 Quebec City conferences between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill (with Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King playing host). Events between 1939 and 1945 that touched Canada are evoked: Japanese-Canadian internment; the disastrous Dieppe Raid; the conscription crisis; and women in the wartime workforce. In this list of World War II touchstones, however, few would include the expansion of a hydroelectric producing network. That is, until now. Matthew Evenden’s fine study digs deep, in fact into the geologic history of the nation, to unearth a new element of Canada’s contribution during the global conflict. Moreover, it provides a wedge into the study of the environment and warfare in Canada’s past, an area seldom explored by environmental historians.

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