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"Responding to the Call!"

"Responding to the Call!"

Date1914-1918
DimensionsOverall: 46.8 x 37.2 cm
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Tomlinson, London, Ontario, 1978
Object number1978.044.063
Label TextIn this patriotic drawing, Great Britain, represented by the adult lion, summons the countries of its Empire, including Canada, to join its war effort. Britain had declared war on August 4, 1914. Part of the British Empire, Canada was immediately at war, too. Britain had declared war because Germany had reneged on an 1839 treaty to respect Belgian neutrality when it invaded that country in August 1914.
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