What attitudes would you find most difficult to deal with back to Canada of 1914?

Answer 1

That would vary by person but I would find the attitudes towards human rights appalling. Many people in 1914 accepted the idea that a persons race, religion, even gender was a legitimate reason for rejecting that person for anything other than stereotypical roles. Sure that was changing but it was a big part of accepted culture back then.

The other problem would be the way people thought. People didn't think the same, at least not most people. Literacy rates were low and even among the literate there was not the same acceptance of modern ways of thinking. Ideas of cause and effect, or science based, logical thinking was not part of most peoples way of thinking or looking at the world. Things were more often black and white than the grey of today. That would make for some very frustrating conversations.

Just as it does today when talking to people whose religion or culture still has them using traditional or practical thinking.