Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorTuck, J.H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-03T16:52:36Z
dc.date.available1968
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/81687
dc.descriptionPage number 73 was used twice and page number 154 was not used.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study traces the course of .federal politics in Nova Scotia from the time of the federal government's announcement of a policy of military conscription in early 1917, through the period of the formation of Union Government, to the federal election in the fall of 1917. The study attempts to explain why the Liberal Party received substantial support in the 1917 election in predominantly English-speaking .Nova Scotia, when it was soundly defeated in English-speaking Canada west of Quebec. The study suggests that constituency organizations of both parties were unwilling to renounce party loyalty in 1917, even in the face of such important national questions as conscription and Union Government, and that, as a consequence, the election in. much of t he province became, to all intents and purposes, a traditional 'Grit-Tory' contest. Moreover, the effectiveness of conscription as an election issue was largely neutralized during the campaign by the tactics of both parties: Liberal candidates were for conscription, in some areas, and against it elsewhere depending upon the mood of the electorate, and Unionists watered down their party's pro-conscription stand by promising substantial exemptions from conscription. The result was a re-assertion of the traditional voting pattern in the province: the Liberal Party received a majority of the civilian votes, as in previous elections, and was defeated only by pro-Union soldiers votes.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectNova Scotia--Politics and government--1867-en_US
dc.subjectNova Scotiaen_US
dc.subjectWorld War, 1914-1918en_US
dc.subjectElections--Nova Scotiaen_US
dc.subjectConscriptionen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleNova Scotia and the Conscription Election of 1917en_US
dc.date.defence1968-11
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerKerr, D.C.C.en_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorWaite, P.B.en_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerWaite, P.B.en_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerBeck, J.M.en_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorWaite, P.B.en_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
 Find Full text

Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record