ANNUAL REVIEW

OF

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

BY

J. CASTELL HOPKINS, F.S.S., F.R.G.S.

1918

EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF ISSUE

ILLUSTRATED

TORONTO:

THE CANADIAN ANNUAL REVIEW, LIMITED

1919

Copyright, Canada, 1919, by The Canadian Annual Review, Limited.

WARWICK BROS. & RUTTer, Limited,

PRINTERS ANd Bookbinders,

TORONTO,

PREFACE

This 18th volume of The Canadian Annual Review completes my treatment of the World War in its association with Canadian history and with the National and Imperial developments of the past five years. I felt, when the roar of German guns commenced in August, 1914, that succeeding events in the struggle would be vital to Canada and Canadians for all time-that they would be fundamental to its future status in the Empire, on this Continent, and in the world of Nations. So vast and varied have been the movement and operation of forces since then, and so greatly have they affected the very life of our people that this record will, I trust, prove of permanent service to Canadians and to students everywhere who would know what Canada did in these years of conflict.

Now that one great issue is settled, others may arise of a different nature and the stability of the institutions of freedom again be at stake from other sources. But, so far as this yearly volume is concerned, more space will now be available for the treatment of purely Dominion problems and progress, for the study and review of Provincial and Municipal issues, for the record of Reconstruction work and of the political controversies which will inevitably develop.

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