re: #237 sagehen

Canada, Australia and New Zealand, too.

Canada lost 60,000 in WWI, when the country’s entire population was 8 million.

For scale — we lost 50,000 in Vietnam, when our population was 250 million.

At the time, Canada had virtually no autonomy of its own so when Britain declared war on Germany, we were by default at war as well. But WWI was also one of the first wars where Canadians made major accomplishments in battle.