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Deployed back on the field. It's an honour to fight for your country but also haunting in a way. There's no telling what will happen between our countries. Everyone is afraid of each other, it's just a cycle on who strikes first.

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Never been to Quebec, but i heard there was some spark of a revolution brewing in the city. Dont know whats going on but i feel like it would not affect me that much. I will now move to the U.S. to stay with my family.

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Spectacular and magnificent. Countries formed peace and security, Who knew that these once enemies would align their past and instead ally with each other. Well maybe not "allies" but its at least something.

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Well its goodbye to my life in Canada. Im officialy moving to the U.S. but its not over yet. I will still visit often. Well this message is for everyone that gave me a great experience in these fascinating events. Well then, peace. ~ Pines

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The Korean War began 25 June 1950, when North Korean armed forces invaded South Korea. The war's combat phase lasted until an armistice was signed 27 July 1953. As part of a United Nations (UN) force, 26,791 Canadian military personnel served in the Korean War, during both the combat phase and as peacekeepers afterward. After the two world wars, Korea remains Canada's third-bloodiest overseas conflict, taking the lives of 516 Canadians and wounding more than 1,200.

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War was coming, dad had to return to the battlefield. It was not long before something interesting could happen.

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The trembling of war is as great as ever. We just arrived through the shore. Hundreds of ships lined out in the sea. I have never seen that many ships in one invasion.

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Fortunately, i was sent home without but a few injuries. My own dad, bought me a luxury car as a returning gift. He was always wealthy, he just wanted to teach me responsibility.

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Went to vacation on the U.S, going to my dad's old general store. But the last thing i need is working there, it is bad and its not even fun working there. Listening to the radio i hear conflict rising somewhere. I thought this was my chance, i should assign along with them. Before that, i went to my sister's seemingly massive construct of a house. I would not call it a house, more of a play-place for children. Entering in is like entering a villa, water running through the sides. Just came here for a quick chat and a small reunion. Don't know how she has all of this and still have left over money... She gave me $50 and wished me luck and i was off. ~ Pines

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The Korean War began 25 June 1950, when North Korean armed forces invaded South Korea. The war's combat phase lasted until an armistice was signed 27 July 1953. As part of a United Nations (UN) force, 26,791 Canadian military personnel served in the Korean War, during both the combat phase and as peacekeepers afterward. After the two world wars, Korea remains Canada's third-bloodiest overseas conflict, taking the lives of 516 Canadians and wounding more than 1,200.

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People returning back to their normal lives

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Life is good at the moment, my dad returned back from the war. My mother had to leave her job and she could not find another one. But at least everything is back together and i can enjoy my childhood in an after-war era.

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Thankfully, dad found a job after the war. Most returning veterans could not even find one.

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Our family invested around a quarter of our life savings and bank loans to the market, when the news came in it devastated us. But not that much, it hurts seeing all that money gone and the debt is creeping on us

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You know, being in the big city, in our home is much safer but more boring. The radio is the only form of entertainment i have  to, and maybe some ancient books you have left for us to read. I would not want to know the feeling of being shot at or being enforced to follow a task. Even though war seemed scary, i ought to prove myself worthy. I will vow to contest in wars and become the symbol of pride among my fellow soldiers. ~ Pines

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Norman Hilmer.2013, "The Great Crash of 1929 in Canada", https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-great-crash-feature

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The wheat glut of 1928 threw the Winnipeg Grain Exchange into a spiral, triggering a depression in Canada's economy.

It began to take shape on 24 October 1929, Black Thursday. "Stock Speculators Shaken in Wild Day of Panic," shouted the front page of the next day's Toronto . The New York Stock Exchange, the accompanying stories reported, had experienced massive declines in wild trading, with a record 12.8 million shares sold. Thousands of accounts were wiped out before leading bankers and industrialists intervened to halt the slump. The dread extended to the Toronto markets, the Globe declared, and "rocked" share prices there. In Montréal, forced selling ran rampant, and practically every stock finished the day down.

"The biggest crash ever recorded," lamented the famed British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose own investments were entirely gone by the end of the year ( see Keynesian Economics).

Tuesday, 29 October - or Black Tuesday - was worse still. On Wall Street, 16.4 million shares were sold, almost 4 million more than Black Thursday's unprecedented totals. The New York Times industrial average plummeted, eliminating a strong year's gains, and the investment giant Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation was reduced to 58 per cent of its worth the night before.

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In Toronto and Montréal, liquidation records were set. Horrified investors clogged the financial districts, while employees in the exchanges and the brokerage houses worked themselves to near-collapse in an attempt to corral the paperwork. The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs reckoned that "never before the 1929 crash had amounts that ran into billions of dollars been lost on the Canadian Stock Exchanges in so brief a period of time." In Montréal, some 500,000 shares were sold (5 times the usual amount); in Toronto, 330,000 were sold (13 times the usual).

"The singular feature of the great crash of 1929 was that the worst continued to worsen," wrote Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbraith in his seminal book The Great Crash 1929 (1954). The markets jumped back to life, but briefly. The setbacks returned and they persisted.

From the peak of the bull market in 1929 to mid-1930, the 50 most active Canadian stocks diminished on average to well under half their market value. Shareholders in International Nickel and Imperial Oil lost more than $500 million each, those in Canadian Pacific Railway over $60 million.

Standard Oil of New Jersey's John D. Rockefeller, the Bill Gates of his day, was caught up in the turmoil. On 13 November 1929, yet another disastrous day for the markets, he put his family's money behind a guarantee that his enterprise's shares would not fall below 50. In early 1932, the price was 20.

Historians and economists debate the importance of the Great Crash. Some claim that it brought on the Great Depression that blighted the 1930s across the industrialized world; others scarcely mention it in their narratives of the decade-long economic ordeal, an international phenomenon with many origins and explanations.

The economic downturn seemed moderate enough when Conservative leader R.B. Bennett hit the election trail in 1930. But Bennett was able to use it to good effect to defeat William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals, who'd been in power for nearly a decade and were reluctant to acknowledge the crisis brewing in Canada.

Six months after the election, Prime Minister Bennett realized that the country was in a severe economic depression. The low point came in 1933, when national output and exports - crucial then as now to the Canadian economy ( see Economic Indicators) - were down a third from late 1920s levels. Farms of the West were in crisis ( see Drought). Nearly a third of the workforce was unemployed.

The rich and well-stuffed Bennett was the butt of cruel jokes and the symbol of everything Canadians loathed. Though he tried to turn the tide, establishing the Bank of Canada and presenting his New Deal for social service reform in 1935, it was too little too late. In the next election, Canadians ousted Bennett.

The economy struggled back, yet very slowly, and a late 1930s recession interrupted the upward trend ( see Business Cycles). In 1939, there were still hundreds of thousands of Canadians on what passed for financial relief, with monthly rates for a family of five varying from $60 in Calgary to $19 in Halifax. This was before the rise of the welfare state in the ensuing decades.

Year upon year of economic woe set peoples against one another in a global depression that left few markets unscathed. In response, governments heaped on the tariffs, wanting to protect themselves and punish others ( see Protectionism). Democracies turned in on themselves, selfish and frightened. Capitalism had apparently failed, and its opponents were in fashion. Territory-hungry dictatorships flourished ( see Fascism). In this respect, the Second World War was a child of the Great Depression. Then, in a twist of fate, the economic prosperity of war ended Canada's Depression.

( See also Economic History.)

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The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. In late October of 1929, terror seized th...