Chapter II: Preface: ix

PORTRAIT of Sir Robert Borden, Premier of Canada, during the War xiii

PORTRAIT of the Honourable George Henry Murray, Premier of Nova
Scotia xvi

CHAPTER
I. Headquarters Military District No. 6 1

II. 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles 9

III. 9th Siege Battery 22

IV. 10th Siege Battery 28

V. 17th Field Battery 31

VI. 23rd and 24th Field Batteries 41

VII. 36th Field Battery 43

VIII. 14th Brigade, C.F.A. 56

IX. Royal Canadian Regiment 58

X. 17th Battalion 65

XI. 25th Battalion 70

XII. 40th Battalion 92

XIII. 64th Battalion 95

XIV. 85th Battalion and Band 99

XV. 106th Battalion 116

XVI. 112th Battalion 119

XVII. 185th Battalion 122

XVIII. 193rd Battalion 130

XIX. 219th Battalion 133

XX. 246th Battalion 146

XXI. 2nd Construction Battalion 148

XXII. Forestry Corps 154

XXIII. No. 6 District Depot 157

XXIV. Canadian Army Service Corps 161

XXV. Canadian Ordnance Corps 173

XXVI. Canadian Army Medical Corps 177

XXVII. Canadian Army Dental Corps 226

XXVIII. Canadian Army Pay Corps 231

XXIX. Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery 236

XXX. Canadian Engineers 242

XXXI. Militia Units on Home Service 243

XXXII. 1st Regiment Canadian Garrison Artillery 245

XXXIII. 11th Brigade, C.F.A., and Composite Artillery Company 250

XXXIV. 63rd Regiment 253

XXXV. 66th Regiment 259

XXXVI. 94th Regiment 263

XXXVII. Composite Battalion 268

XXXVIII. Depot Battalion 272

XXXIX. “B” Unit, M.H.C.C. 275

XL. University of Acadia College 280

XLI. University of Dalhousie College 282

XLII. University of King’s College 289

XLIII. University of St. Francis Xavier’s College 294

XLIV. Presbyterian College, Pine Hill 296

XLV. Recruiting in Nova Scotia 300

XLVI. Ocean Transport 305

XLVII. Munitions 311

XLVIII. Demobilization 322

XLIX. Vocational Training 330

L. Patriotic Fund 345

LI. Victory Loan 347

LII. Red Cross Society; and Willing War Workers, Green Feather
Society and Catholic Ladies Society 350

LIII. Knights of Columbus 370

LIV. Young Men’s Christian Association 377

LV. Halifax Citizens’ Reception Committee 381

LVI. Creche at Pier 2 386

LVII. St. Matthew’s Church 394

SPECIAL SKETCHES, with Portraits 399

“FELT DAWN”—A Literary Appreciation of a phrase in McCrae’s poem,
“In Flanders Fields” 436

SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN,

Premier of Canada during the Great War.]

HON. G. H. MURRAY,

Premier of Nova Scotia during the Great War.]

Nova Scotia’s Part in the Great War