35 - "We're Not Going To Siberia": Canada's Forgotten War 1918-1919
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35 - "We're Not Going To Siberia": Canada's Forgotten War 1918-1919
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Canada fought a war after the war ended.
Between October 1918 and June 1919, this country sent almost five thousand soldiers to Russia; a nation Canada was not at war with, to fight an enemy Canada had never declared war on, for reasons its own Cabinet could not agree on.
Two forces went, and they had almost opposite wars.
Four thousand two hundred went to Vladivostok. Roughly forty per cent were conscripts. Some were marched to the docks at bayonet point, in the streets of Victoria, six weeks after the Armistice. They arrived to orders forbidding them to fight.
Fewer than five hundred went to Archangel, on the Arctic coast. All volunteers, most already veterans of the Western Front. They fought on frozen rivers against artillery that outranged them. One of the worst days they had was the eleventh of November, 1918.
A mutiny in Victoria. The influenza that reached Alberta on a Siberia-bound troop train. A fifty-seven-ton bank shipped from Vancouver into a revolution. Nineteen names on a stone above Vladivostok, and why the real number is twenty-one.
Twenty-one Canadians died in Siberia. Not one was killed by the enemy they were sent to fight.
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