ABSTRACT
Mention has been made of some of the domestic questions which affected the people of Canada during these eventful years; but the important thing in their history was the manner in which the doings in the war developed and brought to a head the sense of nationhood. It was, indeed, singularly appropriate that the statesman who had urgently insisted upon the necessity of the Dominions having a voice in the decision of imperial policy should have been at the helm when the time came for the accomplishment of his ideals. In Australia much less was heard of the new conception of nationhood resulting from the war. In industrial matters a new departure was made by the Industrial Peace Bill of 1920. During the early portion of the history of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court the Trade Unions had been anxious to go to the Court because they believed that they were sure to get the wages of their members increased.
