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On The Home Front
Canada During World War II
Canadian enlistments in Montreal, September, 1939, widely repeated across
Canada.
Canadian propaganda posters to encourage the Canadian war effort
Save Waste Bones – they make glue for aircraft and are used for EXPLOSIVES
A Canadian Storefront - WWII
• “Loyal citizens, do not hoard”
• Rationed:• Sugar – 1/2 lb per wk
per person• Tea – ½ of the usual
purchase• Coffee – ¾ of the
usual purchase
Canadian Car and Foundry Plant in Nova Scotia was converted to make airplanes.
Women Went to (Paid) Work Again
Anti-aircraft guns being made in Peterborough, Ontario, 1943.
Mrs. A. Mackay, a shipyard welder in Pictou, Nova Scotia, World War II
Woman crane operator at the Westinghouse plant in Hamilton, 1942, lowering a naval gun-barrel
onto a lathe.
Mealtime at an Ontario wartime day nursery, c. 1942.
Producing tanks at the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1942, for use by Canadian and
British forces garrisoning Britain.
The De Havilland aircraft factory, Toronto, Ontario, c. 1939, with mostly small training
craft under construction.
Universal carriers being completed in a final assembly plant for World War II service, Ford Company of Canada, Windsor, Ontario, 1942.
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