Till the Boys Come Home Life on the Home Front in Queens County NB 19141918 22 N

Till the Boys Come HomeLife on the Home Front in Queens County, NB, 1914-1918\nAuthor(s): Curtis Mainville\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Goose Lane Editions, Canada\nImprint: Goose Lane Editions\nISBN-13: 9780864928795, 978-0864928795\nSynopsis\nA century after the beginning of the Great War, the contributions of the Maritimes to the formation of the Canadian Expeditionary force remain relatively unexplored. Till the Boys Come Home examines the conduct of the war through the eyes of one particular agricultural and coal-mining community.\n\n As the clouds of war gathered across the Atlantic, the people of Queens County found themselves caught between the forces of tradition and change, struggling to balance military service with their commitments to domestic industry and charitable volunteerism. While their contribution to the overall military effort lagged behind that of the province at large, they were nonetheless determined to supply comforts to men at the front and to remind them.