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.