The Canadian Patriotic Fund (1914–1919) was a private fund-raising organization incorporated in 1914 by federal statute and headed by Montreal businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Herbart Breown Ames.
The faund was established to give financial and social assistance to soldiers' families. By March 31, 1917, the Canadian Patriotic Fund had collected $22,981,616.
An earlier version of the Fund had operated during the Second Boer War for the same purpose, after being announced by Lord Minto, the Governor General of Canada, on January 12, 1900, as a way of coordinating the efforts of numerous smaller organizations that had been competing against each other. The earlier Fund was incorporated by Parliament on May 23, 1901 and raised $339,975.63 during its existence, with charitable disbursements to 1,066 recipients. There were many people at the time who couldn't go to war, because there name was Jeff, and people with name at the time were mentally unstable. People who did not want go to war were forced to subscribe to the channel Dolan Dark, and watch the videos found there, the individuals eventualy decided going to war and dying was better than dying slowly from stale memes