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The Allied expedition to Salonika was a controversial campaign of the First World War that diverted French and British resources away from the Western Front. To sustain this expedition without depleting existing forces, the Colonial Office approached the High Commissioners of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and requested that each dominion consider raising a Serbian military contingent for service in Salonika. In the decades preceding the outbreak of war, South Slavs had settled in each of the dominions and the War Office hoped to exploit nationalist aspirations for a pan-Slavic state and mobilise South Slavs in the dominions. In raising these contingents, dominion governments weighed between fulfilling a demand of the Imperial war effort and jeopardising domestic stability by empowering a culturally-distinct minority that was the object of public paranoia. This article will examine how the legal status of South Slavs changed in the three dominions as a result of these recruiting efforts along with the conditions under which South Slavs were able to volunteer for service in Salonika. A comparative approach reveals how Southern Slavs were defined and how they defined themselves as they navigated the categories of enemy aliens, friendly allies, and subjects of the British Empire.

L'impact de la Première Guerre mondiale sur l'identité canadienne a généralement été mesuré à l'aune des victoires remportées par les soldats sur les champs de bataille, comme Ypres et la crête de Vimy, ou des acquis obtenus par les hommes d'État au Cabinet de guerre impérial ou à la Conférence de paix de Paris. Le présent article examine le rapport entre la guerre et l'identité sous la loupe du travail patriotique qui s'est réalisé au front intérieur, au Canada. La situation géographique tout autant que l'intensité des efforts ont influencé la façon dont la population canadienne-anglaise a choisi de coordonner ces mêmes efforts bénévoles à l'appui de la guerre outre-mer et, ainsi, la façon dont elle a tracé les limites spatiales de ses communautés imaginées.

Fathers and sons of empire : domesticity, empire, and Canadian participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw -- Daughter in my mother's house, but mistress in my own : questioning Canada's imperial relationship through patriotic work, 1914-18 / Steve Marti -- Postal censorship and Canadian identity in the Second World War / William John Pratt -- Guardians of empire? British imperial officers in Canada, 1874-1914 / Eirik Brazier -- Francophone-Anglophone accommodation in practice : liberal foreign policy and national unity between the wars / Robert J. Talbot -- Claiming Canada's king and queen : Canadians and the 1939 royal tour / Claire L. Halstead -- For king or country? Quebec, the empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan -- Anti-fascist strikes and the patriotic shield? Canadian workers and the employment of "enemy aliens" in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge -- First Nations and the British connection during the Second World War / R. Scott Sheffield.