ABSTRACT
The Legion is an intriguing locus for social, spatial, and emotional relations, differently produced in specific places, and out of which sometimes unexpected feeling subjects take shape in contrast to the usual suspects popularly attributed to the Legion landscape. This chapter suggests that the familiar representations of the Legion belie the complexities of Legion spaces and their co-implication in always emergent subjectivities. Tracing the geographies of the Legion across time and in place is suggestive of the ways in which seemingly ubiquitous, militaristic, traditionally masculine organization in fact many ongoing iterations. The Canadian soldiers who survived the Great War' returned home to a complicated new reality. Following World War I, there was little in the way of an organized process to assist veterans, their families, or their communities to cope with the economic, social or emotional fall-out of the war. In making space for some feeling, the Legion's landscapes arguably limited others by virtue of promoting normative masculinity and whiteness.
