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Jonathan F. Vance

Jonathan F. Vance is a Distinguished University Professor and J.B. Smallman Chair in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario.

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Looking considerably more martial is this group of finely turned-out soldiers from Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles, stationed in England before the start of the First World War.

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