the Flu greatly affected young, healthy people ages 20-50 and, many children were sent out of the larger cities to live with family on farms or in smaller villages some churches had over 15 funerals a day streetcars were adapted to carry multiple corpses as a Canadian, I was surprised to learn that some provinces arrested people for coughing in public and/or spitting in the street! People were also fined $50.00 for not wearing a mask in public! Other interesting bits of information include: how a huge number of people were infected and died within a few days of contracting this virus and,ģ. how Armistice Day celebrations exacerbated the spread of the Flu through an 8-month period of diary entries, our MC Fiona (Fee) relates how the ending of the Great War and the influx of the Spanish Flu affected her close-knit family and various friends and acquaintances I have designated February 2023 as my "Books for Young and Old Alike" Month!ġ. Since this particular book focuses on the Spanish Flu in Canada from 1918-1919, and how we are still coping with the COVID pandemic 100 years later, it has been high on my WTR list and,Ģ. I have read a handful of other books from this series, all of which I have learned something new about Canada's history.
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