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The following is excerpted from Canada's History review of On to Civvy Street: Canada's Rehabilitation Program for Veterans of the Second World War by Peter Neary.
Cheated of reimbursement and struggling in the face of an uncaring bureaucracy, many veterans were disillusioned at having been cut loose by the state. The Second World War saw even more men and women in uniform, with close to 1.1 million serving in Canada and overseas. Early in the conflict, the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King sought to avoid repeating the same perceived failures of an earlier generation.
While Canada paid a terrible price during that war, the nation emerged from it prosperous and able to reward its veterans. Peter Neary’s On to Civvy Street recounts that story in enormous detail. The Veterans Charter, a series of programs and grants for veterans, allowed them to go to university, establish businesses, buy homes, and start families. The program was a success, as is this definitive history.
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