“Gladly given for the cause”: New Brunswick Teacher and Student Support for the War Effort, 1914–1918
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This article examines the efforts of New Brunswick’s public school teachers and students to support the First World War. Along with participation in the Teachers’ Machine Gun Fund, they were involved in gendered activities such as Home Efficiency Clubs, Cadet Corps, Military Drill, and the “Soldiers of the Soil” movement. Students—male and female, young and old, Anglophone and Francophone—as well as their teachers, also took part in a variety of fundraising efforts that served to reinforce discipline and inculcate patriotism, meeting the state-sponsored definition of a good citizen. By drawing on archival documents, this article highlights the ways that New Brunswick’s teachers and students were inculcated in voluntarism, patriotism, and militarism as they responded to the demands of the war and contributed “for the cause.”
RésuméCet article fait le bilan des efforts des enseignants et des élèves des écoles publiques du Nouveau-Brunswick pour appuyer l’effort de la Première Guerre mondiale. Grâce à la participation du Fonds de la Mitrailleuse des Enseignants, ils ont participé à des activités intégrées, telles que les Clubs d’efficacité au foyer, les Corps de cadets, les Corvées de militaires et le mouvement des « Soldats de la terre ». Des élèves, garçons et filles, jeunes et moins jeunes, francophones et anglophones, ainsi que leurs enseignants, ont également participé à diverses campagnes de financement qui ont servi à renforcer la discipline, à inculquer le patriotisme et à promouvoir la définition d’état de bon citoyen. En se fondant sur des documents d’archives, cet article souligne les moyens par lesquels les enseignants et les étudiants du Nouveau-Brunswick ont embrassé le bénévolat, le patriotisme et le militantisme quand ils ont répondu aux besoins de l’effort de guerre et ont contribué « à la cause ».
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