On the right, the vanguard of the war was the Jägers who had been moved to Finland by the end of 1917, and the most active volunteer White Guards of Viipuri province in the southeastern corner of Finland, southwestern Finland, and southern Ostrobothnia.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

Bessarabia, having declared its independence from Russia in 1917 by the Conference of the Country ( Sfatul Țării ), called in Romanian troops to protect the province from the Bolsheviks who were spreading the Russian Revolution.

Some accounts claim that a supposed southern Shaolin Temple was destroyed instead of, or in addition to, the temple in Henan: Ju Ke, in the Qing bai lei chao ( 1917 ), locates this temple in Fujian province.

In 1917, the Chinese Acting President Feng Kuo-Chang declared war on Germany in the hope of recovering its lost province Shandong, then under Japanese control.

In 1917 Canada was in crisis ; King supported Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his opposition to conscription, which was violently opposed in the province of Quebec.

Under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, a metropolitan had to receive the pallium before exercising his office in his ecclesiastical province, even if he was previously metropolitan elsewhere, but these restrictions were absent in the revised 1983 Code of Canon Law.

The Ikarians have historically been under control by Polycrates ' Sea Empire, the Second Athenian League, the Roman province of Asia, the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Genoa, the Knights of Saint John and the Ottoman Empire before becoming an independent people on the 17th of July, 1917.

Finland Proper was comprised within the boundaries of the administrative province of Turku and Pori from 1917 to 1997 and that of Western Finland from 1997 to 2009, when the provinces of Finland were abolished.

* Häme Province ( Hämeen lääni ) – a province of Finland, 1917 – 1997

Ingrian flagWhen Finland declared its independence in 1917, the isthmus ( except for the territory roughly corresponding to present-day Vsevolozhsky District and some districts of Saint Petersburg ) remained Finnish, part of the Viipuri province with its center in Viipuri, the second largest Finnish city.

On November 7, 1931, the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution, a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference was held in Ruijin ( 瑞金 ), Jiangxi province.

The province was divided into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur once again in 1917.

Negros Oriental became a province under the American civil government on March 10, 1917.

In 1917 China declared war on Germany in the hope of recovering its lost province, then under Japanese control.

On November 30, 1917, the Council declared an autonomous Latvian province within ethnographic boundaries, and a formal independent Latvian republic was declared on January 15, 1918.

Parra was born in San Carlos, province of Ñuble, a small town in southern Chile on October the 4, 1917.

Turku and Pori Province (, ) was a province of independent Finland from 1917 to 1997.

In 1997, three other agricultural colleges affiliated with the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph: College d ' Alfred, a francophone college in the eastern part of the province at Alfred, Ontario ; Kemptville College, founded in 1917 and located at Kemptville, Ontario about 30 minutes south of Ottawa, and Ridgetown College at Ridgetown, Ontario founded in 1922 and located in southwestern Ontario near Chatham.

When Finland gained its independence in 1917 only a small fraction of the Orthodox Karelians lived in the Finnish Karelia, and in three villages of Oulu province.

When Bukidnon was declared as a regular province and become an independent political unit on March 10, 1917 by virtue of the creation of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu under Act 2711, Malaybalay was designated as its provincial capital.

In 1917, the Trades and Labour Congress ( TLC ) national convention in Toronto passed a resolution calling on provincial labour federations to establish a political party which would unite socialist and labour parties in the province and eventually form a national party.

Semey (), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (, until 2007 ) and Alash-kala ( Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917 – 1920 ), is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.

He was appointed Attorney-General of the province, holding that office from 1915 to 1917.

In 1917, Chevrolet's factories were located at New York City ; Tarrytown, N. Y .; Flint, Michigan ; Toledo, Ohio ; St. Louis, Missouri ; Oakland, California ; Fort Worth, Texas, and Oshawa, Ontario.

It built The British Cordite Ltd factory at Nobel, Ontario, in 1916 / 1917, to produce cordite.

John Parmenter Robarts, PC, CC, QC ( January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982 ) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman, and the 17th Premier of Ontario.

Ludwig Bemelmans, the writer best known for his popular ' Madeline ' stories, was stationed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y. from 1917.

Ontario was first in 1915, Manitoba in 1916, British Columbia in 1917.

Between 1912 and his death in 1917, Thomson produced hundreds of these small sketches, many of which are now considered works in their own right, and are housed in such galleries as the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

These included the design work for the Boer War Memorial Fountain in Windsor, Ontario ( 1906 ), the South African War Memorial in Toronto ( 1910 ), The Baldwin-Lafontaine Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa ( 1914 ) and the Bell Memorial commemorating Alexander Graham Bell's invention of telephone in Brantford, Ontario ( 1917 ).

William Macdonald was a devoted Freemason initiated on March 17, 1917 at the Doric Lodge No. 121 in Brantford, Ontario.

An " outlaw " bridge across the river was built by residents of Thunder Bay, Ontario, and opened on August 18, 1917, to permit access to Minnesota.

Among the leaders were Solomon Eby ( 1834 – 1929 ) of Ontario, William Gehman ( 1827 – 1917 ) of Pennsylvania, Daniel Brenneman ( 1834 – 1919 ) of Indiana, and Joseph E. Ramseyer ( 1869 – 1944 ).

* Thirty Years in the Canadian North-West James Woodsworth ( 1917 ) McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Limited, Toronto, Ontario

* John Douglas Moore ( 1843 – 1917 ), Ontario farmer and political figure

York West is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and since 1917.

* Hitachi Construction Truck Manu ( Guelph, Ontario )-CAW Local 1917

He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons during the conscription election of 1917 as a Unionist Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Fort William, Ontario.

Rowell led the Ontario Liberal Party from 1911 to 1917 and put forward a platform advocating temperance.

In 1917, Rowell, a supporter of conscription during World War I left the Ontario legislature and broke with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party of Canada to join the national Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and was appointed to Borden's government as President of the Privy Council of Canada in October 1917 and was also made vice-chairman of the government's War Committee giving him primary responsibility for organizing the war effort and enforcing conscription.