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| 1913 |
| | | The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies | |
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| 1917 |
| | | A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone | |
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| 1917 April 12 |
| | | Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial | |
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| 1917 June |
| | | The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history | |
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| 1919 |
| | | John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland | |
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