1. A sunny people, and a sunny year: One Flag, One Fleet, One Throne
2. The Lauriers of St. Lin, The Bordens of Nova Scotia, The Bourassas and Papineaus of Montebello
3. The Strange, voluptuous fascination of the tariff ; The Conservatives take over with help from abroad
4. The incomparable Sam Hughes
5. An obnoxious young man named Winston Churchill ; The defeat of the naval bill
6. The Stringency of the collapse of the land boom ; Farewell to Eureka Park
7. The king and the duke ; The strange saga of Mackenzie and Mann and the Canadian Northern Railway
8. Colonel Hughes creates the first contingent ; "There is only one feeling as to Sam, that he is crazy"
9. Life and death in the trenches ; The gas attack at Ypres
10. Pacifism and isolationism ; The battles of Loos and the Mound
11. The remarkable adventures of Colonel J. Wesley Allison
12. The most loved, hated and debated military weapon of its time: the Ross rifle
13. Exit Sam Hughes ; "Tell 'em to go like blazes!"
14. The fateful hinge of Verdun ; the counterhinge of the Somme ; Enter the "landship," cistern, or reservoir, finally called the tank
15. Quebec has its second thoughts about the war ; Ontario has its second thoughts about Quebec ; The fight over the schools and the Mlles. Desloges
16. The battle of Vimy Ridge
17. Conscription ; Union government and the fall of Laurier
18. Passchendaele ; The last German counter-attack
19. The Black Day and the Hundred days ; The battle in the air and Canada's part ; 20. The hazards of peace ; The Winnipeg general strike
21. The Age of the Aging Turks ; The departure of Robert Laird Borden
22. The advent of Arthur Meighen ; The expensive luxury of lecturing Mackenzie King ; 23. William Lyon Mackenzie King ; The two women in his life ; The labor conciliator and the disciple of Laurier ; 24. King and the Rockefellers ; Mother Jones and the Colorado mines ; A plan that worked
; 25. Industry and Humanity ; King becomes his party's leader
26. The pull of gravity and the USA ; "WLW, the Nation's Station, Cincinnati!" ; The Black and Tans and the surge of nationalism ; The tour of the Prince of Wales
27. The farmers try their strength; The rise of the Progressives and the beginning of their fall
28. The Chanak affair ; Canada rejects the motto "Ready, aye, ready!"
29. The Emergence of the Left ; James Woodsworth and Tim Buck
30. Prohibition in the United States and rumrunning in Canada ; "Lean up against the counter and make a gurgling sigh"
31. Another close victory for the government ; The customs scandal comes into the open ; The barge Tremblay, Chicago Benny, Joseph Bisaillon, and Moses Aziz
32. The Constitutional Crisis ; The Liberals evade a desperate defeat and Meighen makes way for R.B. Bennett
33. The splendid euphoria of the rumrunning days ; The Diamond Jubilee and the Briand-Kellogg Pact
34. The market crash and the Depression ; King's historic Five-Cent Piece
35. King loses his confidence ; Bennett inherits the Depression
36. The great bonanza of Beauharnois ; A few hundred thousands dollars for a few enterprising senators ; 37. R.B. Bennett comes to office ; The unlucky coincidence with Herbert Hoover
38. The Left makes its bid ; Disappointments for the C.C.F. and the Communists, for Woodsworth and Tim Buck
39. The resurgence of the provinces ; Social Credit and William Aberhart ; The astonishing revolt of R.B. Bennett
40. Canada saves and then helps destroy the League of Nations ; Munich, Ethiopia, and the start of the Second World War
41. King Meets two challenges ; First from Duplessis and Quebec, then from Hepburn and Ontario
42. The Canadian Army and its false starts ; The Air Force and the Battle of Britain
43. The Royal Canadian Navy ; The handy whaling ship called the corvette ; The Battle of the Atlantic ; 44. The R Men and the A Men ; The start of another long dispute over conscription ; The disaster of Hong Kong
45. The magnificent fiasco of Dieppe ; Its cost and its returns
46. Franklin D. Roosevelt and some important bargins between Canada and the United States ; Meighen loses a by-election ; The plebiscite
47. Goebbels views the R.C.A.F. ; Some difficulties over the Air Training Plan ; The campaign in Sicily
48. The firing of McNaughton ; Italy and the battle of Ortona
49. The question of a unified Empire again ; The disastrous speech of Lord Halifax ; 50. The Assault into Normandy ; The advance to the Scheldt
51. The reinforcement problem ; McNaughton re-enters and Ralston departs
52. Conscription again ; The Zombies go to war ; The end of the battle in Europe
53. The departure of the Aging Turks ; Ontario gets a new school teacher.
