The war seems to have uncovered a new Canadian reading public just as much as it has brought new writers to birth, and with the improved machinery of publishing there never was a more appropriate movement [sic] far a new Canadian literature.
--J.M. Gibbon "Where is Canadian Literature?" (1918) (3)
Between 1914 and 1918 the country changed dramatically, although its population of nine million hardly grew. Of the 628,000 Canadians who enlisted in the military, about 425,000 ...