The paper is devoted to the study of the Canadian government's pension policy for volunteers who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the Canadian Navy during the First World War. It traces the evolution of Canadian pension legislation during the war and the difficulties the Canadian government encountered in implementing it. The paper explores the origins of military pension legislation in Canada; analyzes the conditions and mechanisms for assigning military pensions during the war, including disability groups and rates of pay; it also identifies the bodies responsible for developing and implementing pension legislation. The authors conclude that during the War, the Canadian government developed a complex system of legislative measures aimed at providing financial support to war veterans who were injured at the front and unable to return to duty. Military pensions were awarded in cases of total or partial loss of ability to work, according to a designated disability category. During the war, due to the increasing complexity of disability standards, the number of disability degrees increased. The pension amount depended directly on two factors: the specific disability category and the volunteer's rank at the time of injury.
For citation: Simonenko E.S., Likharev D.V. Pension provisions for Canadian volunteers during the First World War, Bulletin of Ivanovo State University. Series: Humanities, 2026, iss. 2, pp. 105—112.