Khaki University Structure

Dr Henry Marshall Tory, then President of the new University of Alberta, and Edmund Henry Oliver, minister and educator, led its organisation. The Khaki University helped improve the experiences and boost the morale of soldiers on special reports or discharged from the army and also helped with the transition (and boredom) from demobilisation to civilian life through education. The system was also crucial to promoting the Canadian government’s values and “imparting a nascent pride in the Canadian accomplishments during the war” (Cook, 109).

Source: Tim Cook, “From Destruction to Construction: The Khaki University of Canada, 1917-1919,” Journal of Canadian Studies 37, no 1 (2002): 109-143.