The paper is devoted to the study of government policy in the field of adaptation of disabled military personnel to the conditions of civilian life in Canada during
the First World War. The article establishes a list of federal and provincial organizations created to develop and implement a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation of military invalids; it also reveals the mechanism of their functioning. Besides, the author identifies the types of rehabilitation, including medical (comprehensive medical treatment of injuries, injuries and diseases), social (payment of maintenance benefits and military pensions to disabled people and members of their families), labor (vocational training or retraining with subsequent employment). The author concludes that during the First World War, the Canadian government developed a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation of military invalids, aimed at a high degree of adaptation of soldiers injured at the front to peaceful civilian life. The program included medical (including physical and psychological), social (domestic) and labor (professional) rehabilitation. A wide range of specially created federal and provincial commissions were involved in the implementation of the program, the main task of which was to protect the rights and interests of military disabled people.
For citation: Simonenko E.S. Adaptation of military invalids to civilian life in Canada during the First World War (based on materials of the canadian press), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2024, iss. 4, pp. 82—89.