By the end of August 1914, Maurice Goor, Hector Prud’homme and Lambert Jadot began organising Canadian charity for Belgium by creating L’Œuvre de Secours pour les Victimes de la Guerre en Belgique. This was part of a vast international movement of aid to Belgium that was set up in the early hours of the conflict. Although the ambitions of its administrators were rather modest, it quickly became popular with both the elites and the Canadian population in general. Throughout the war, however, L’Œuvre de Secours was marked by major changes.