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| | History of the First Canadian Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The Canadian Parliament was in summer recess at the time, but the Prime Minister, Robert Borden, returned from his vacation and summoned his cabinet ministers together. |
 | | Men had answered the call to arms from all parts of Canada: from the cities, the lumber camps and the forests, from the prairies of the west and the farms of the east, from the Rockies, the shores of Hudson Bay, the banks of the Yukon river and the St. Lawrence seaway. |
 | | At this final review the First Canadian Contingent was led past the saluting base by General Sam Hughes, the man whose name, more than any other, would be linked in history with the 1st Canadian Division; he had cause to be proud of the fully armed and fully equipped men who marched past that day. |
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