Champiet family Album by Arwin by Arwin Hama Amin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj en-us 2023-01-13 15:04:12 UTC 2023-01-17 16:11:38 UTC hello@padlet.com arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2443768532 One year into the war Pier Champiet had inslisted as the first soldier in his family.  Here he is with his wife Marie, his daughter Annette and his infant son Kylian. The family is taking their last picture before Andrew is sent off to Britain.]]> 2023-01-13 16:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2443768532 cite urls arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2443795994 “Dispatches.” French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War | Dispatches | Learn | Canadian War Museum. Accessed January 17, 2023. https://www.warmuseum.ca/learn/dispatches/french-canada-and-recruitment-during-the-first-world-war/#tabs. ]]> 2023-01-13 16:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2443795994 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444780686 Working as a butcher for majority of his life Pier was hesitant in joining the military world. The choice was tough. Leave his family and risk his life. Or stay and provide for his family. His indecisevnes soonly vanished after reading a couple propaganda posters on his way to the shop one day.]]> 2023-01-15 15:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444780686 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444785412 Before Piers inlisment, the Champiets had heard word of the incident of the Komagata Maru. On September 26, 1914, the Komagata Maru departed for India once more. The passengers were thought to be revolutionaries travelling to cause disturbance, according to British investigators. After a confrontation between the police and the passengers, gunshots broke out. When it concluded, 22 people including 16 passengers had died.]]> 2023-01-15 15:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444785412 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444785644 “Dispatches.” French Canada and Recruitment during the First World War | Dispatches | Learn | Canadian War Museum. Accessed January 17, 2023. https://www.warmuseum.ca/learn/dispatches/french-canada-and-recruitment-during-the-first-world-war/#tabs. ]]> 2023-01-15 15:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444785644 ENTRY 01 (Annette Champiet) arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444786607 12/21/1918 

Dear father,
I hope you are doing well in Europe. All of us miss you so greatly. Yesterday was Kylians 6th birthday. He was balling his eyes out this year for you. The boy misses you a lot dad. We need you dad. ever since the war started and you left things kept getting worse. We are just about managing keeping the house warm in winters like these. We don't have as much nice meat from before. Its all from the new butcher. Its unbearbly flavourless compared to your's. I heard great news last year about your victory in Vimy Ridge. Reading the news paper makes you all seem like heros risking your lives in that manner. I have managed to keep Mom and Kylian from stressing by listening to the radio together every night. I am so greatful we have on it really gives us peace.
We love you dad, come home soon.

Love, your daugther Annette.
]]> 2023-01-15 15:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2444786607 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445742058 After the war the family was reunited. Pier returned from deployment and can enjoy the treasures of post-war life. Here the family is enjoying some time together using the new radio they purchesed. They are listening to commantary of an Edmonton Grads game.]]> 2023-01-16 14:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445742058 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445754237 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prohibition]]> 2023-01-16 14:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445754237 ENTRY 02 (Pier Champiet) arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445769066 05/09/1920

To be back from war is a feeling of which has no words. From constant stress and bombardment to relaxing days with family. It is sad however that many things are inaccesable now. Alcohal is prohibited and the only way to recieve it is through shady smuggles. I do somewhat miss the war scene. Waking up next to brothers and challanging the enemy. The first battle of Somme was not one to forget. Everything began on July 1st, 1916. An a llied assault during World War I. North of the Somme River in France, British and French forces conducted a frontal assault against an entrenched German army. Following a week-long artillery barrage, the still impenetrable German defences came under British infantry attack. On the first day, there were about 60,000 British casualties, including 20,000 fatalities. The battle became a symbol for futility and slaughter. Those times are well past me now. I thank god for the position I am in today.

(*) Pier Champiet]]> 2023-01-16 15:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445769066 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445780155 Roughly 1,500 people living in federal unemployment relief camps in British Columbia began a strike in April 1935. To protest the deplorable circumstances in the camps built during the Great Depression, they took trains and trucks to Vancouver. They chose to take their struggle to Ottawa after their protest of several months turned out to be ineffective. More than a thousand strikers started riding railcars across the nation on June 3. They numbered 2,000 people when they arrived in Regina. However, they were halted in Regina, and the strike leaders were taken into custody, which led to the bloody Regina Riot on July 1, 1935.]]> 2023-01-16 15:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2445780155 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2446897281 A short while after the war ended, every Indigenous child was required to attend a residential school, and attending any other type of educational facility became against the law. This was a term under the Indian Act]]> 2023-01-17 14:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2446897281 ENTRY 03 (Kylian Champiet) arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2446924209 11/03/1942

Dear mother, 
It has been 8 months since I have been employed in the war. Each day I have missed you so greatly. The war has kept the European world on it's toes ever since it has started. Ever since the Nazis took over the French region we have been contemplating on what we should do next ever since.
A day to remember was August 19, 1942. On a front that was about 16 kilometres long, five different places were attacked by the enemy forces. Just before dawn, there were to be four simultaneous flank attacks, and then, a half-hour later, the main assault on the Dieppe town itself. This was yet again a lost battle. I will be back home as soon as I get the word I can. Stay safe mother. I love you

Sincerly, your son at war.]]> 2023-01-17 14:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2446924209 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447035704 One story the Champiet family heard was the story of Viola Desmond. When Viola Desmond, a businesswoman from Halifax, refused to get up from her seat in the Roseland Theatre's "whites-only" section in 1946, she challenged the racism that African Nova Scotians frequently faced. She was detained for this, imprisoned for the night, and fined.]]> 2023-01-17 15:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447035704 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447050747 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-children-and-wwii]]> 2023-01-17 15:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447050747 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447059330 During this time housing was a real struggle for the Champiet family. With Pier and Kylian off at war, the two women are now left to feed for themselves. Rations are just not enough and the family is in need more than ever. The two have just managed to keep their home through funds from Pier over in Europe. ]]> 2023-01-17 15:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447059330 arwin_hamaamin https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447064044 Finally the war is over. Marie and Annette can finally see their men again. Pier and Kylian have served well and had recived many accolades throughout their service. They can now reunite with their family and enjoy themselves back home in peace.]]> 2023-01-17 15:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/arwin_hamaamin/nuzx1a1ve1jogmwj/wish/2447064044