Editing Conscription (section)

===Canada===
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Compulsory service in a sedentary militia was practiced in Canada as early as 1669. In peacetime, compulsory service was typically limited to attending an annual muster, although the [[Canadian militia]] was mobilized for longer periods during wartime. Compulsory service in the sedentary militia continued until the early 1880s when Canada's sedentary Reserve Militia system fell into disuse. The legislative provision that formally made every male inhabitant aged 16 to 60 member of the Reserve Militia was removed in 1904, replaced with provisions that made them theoretically "liable to serve in the militia".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/HistoryoftheCanadianMilitia-TheMilitiaofCanada-Canadianhistory.htm|title=History of the Canadian Militia|website=faculty.marianopolis.edu|access-date=19 July 2024|publisher=Marianopolis College|year=2006|first=Claude|last=Bélanger}}</ref>

Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas service in 1944. Conscription has not been practiced in Canada since the end of the Second World War in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conscription|title=Conscription in Canada|last1=Granatstein|first1=J. I.|last2=Jones|first2=Richard|last3=de Bruin|first3=Tabitha|first4=Andrew|last4=McIntosh|date=29 June 2022|access-date=19 July 2024}}</ref>