"Conscription Issue, 1942-1944." . . "1939 - 1945" . . "Canada" . . "Canada." . "Service militaire obligatoire Canada." . . "National Film Board of Canada." . . . "Video recordings"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ressources Internet" . . "Combines archival footage with excerpts from the dramatic film The King chronicles, to examine the conscription issue in Canada and Prime Minister Mackenzie King's handling of it."@en . "Mackenzie King and the conscription crisis"@en . . "Mackenzie King and the conscription crisis" . . . . "Film" . . . . . . . . . "In this video, the viewer is made to identify with William Lyon Mackenzie King as he tried to avoid conscription in the final year of World War 2. Through the skill of the writers and cinematographers, William Lyon Mackenzie King is seen as a man who clearly understood the danger to the future of Canada so sharply focused in the single issue of conscription."@en . . . . "Combines archival footage with excerpts from \"The King Chronicles,\" a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain." . . . "From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription, lest civil war break out in Canada. Most English Canadians thought young men should be sent to fight. Most French Canadians vehemently disagreed. This same division had nearly torn the country apart during the First World War. Now a similar pressure was building. Should conscription be imposed? In spite of delaying tactics, King had to make a decision in the final year of the war. Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis combines archival footage with excerpts from The King Chronicles , a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain. Some scenes contain graphic language." . . . . . . . . . . . "From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription, lest civil war break out in Canada. Most English Canadians thought young men should be sent to fight. Most French Canadians vehemently disagreed. This same division had nearly torn the country apart during the First World War. Now a similar pressure was building. Should conscription be imposed? In spite of delaying tactics, King had to make a decision in the final year of the war. Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis combines archival footage with excerpts from The King Chronicles, a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain. Some scenes contain graphic language." . "From the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Mackenzie King tried to avoid conscription, lest civil war break out in Canada. Most English Canadians thought young men should be sent to fight. Most French Canadians vehemently disagreed. This same division had nearly torn the country apart during the First World War. Now a similar pressure was building. Should conscription be imposed? In spite of delaying tactics, King had to make a decision in the final year of the war. Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis combines archival footage with excerpts from The King Chronicles, a dramatic film series written and directed by Donald Brittain. Some scenes contain graphic language."@en . . . "History"@en . . "Discusses the problems that faced William Lyon Mackenzie King during the Second World War. In the final year of the war, Prime Minister King was forced to make a decision on the conscription crisis that could cause a civil war."@en . "Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis" . "Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crisis"@en . "Publications officielles" . . "Draft." . . "1914 - 1945" . . . . "Draft Canada." . . "Weltkrieg <1939-1945>" . .