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Chapter ThirteenChapter Thirteen
Canada in Canada in World War IIWorld War II
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Trainee pilots at No. 5 Elementary Flying
Training School, Kenyon Field,
Lethbridge, August 1940.
Glenbow Archives, Calgary Herald, NA-2864-3445.
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A convoy near Halifax, 1941. During the war
the Royal Canadian Navy
played a major role in defending Allied
convoys that transported troops
and supplies to Britain.
National Archives of Canada/DND PA-105344.
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Fitting the guns on a 28-ton tank at
Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal,
around 1942.
Photograph Collection and Library Services Canada/Science and Technology Museum, Image CN 001876.
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Women war workers return home after
shift change, Edmonton, 1943.
National Archives of Canada/PA-116122.
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Private Huron Eldon Brant, member of
the Tyendinaga Mohawk community, receiving the Military Medal for bravery at Grammichele, Sicily, 1943, from General
Bernard Montgomery. One year later he was
shot and killed during an attack
near Rimini.
Captain Frank Royal/National Archives of Canada/PA-130065.
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Japanese Canadians being “relocated” to
camps in the interior of British Columbia. More than 20 000 Japanese
and Japanese Canadians were relocated and their property confiscated and
auctioned off after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor in December 1941 and throughout the
duration of the war.
Tak Toyota/National Archives of Canada/C-46350.
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A demonstration against conscription
in Montreal.
The Gazette, National Archives of Canada, PA-107910.
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Canadian advances in Italy, indicating
the Canadian army’s major battles, 1943–
1944.
Source: Based on Elizabeth Abbott, ed., Chronicle of Canada (Montreal: Chronicle Publications, 1990), p. 711.
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Members of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal Regiment in Falaise, France, just after the Normandy invasion.
A Canadian Sherman tank offers the tired
infantrymen protection, in the narrow streets of
this Norman town, August 1944
National Archives of Canada/PA-115568.
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The town of Leeuwarden, during
the liberation of the Netherlands
by Canadian troops, April 16, 1945.
Donald I. Grant/National Archives of Canada/PA-131566.
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Young Canadians, operating under
extremely stressful
conditions, fulfilled Canada’s part in
the strategic bomber offensive against Germany.
Bomber aircrew suffered the
highest wartime casualty rates of
all of the branches in Canadian
military service.
PL-30121/National Defence Imagery Library.
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Canadian troop movements in northwestern
Europe, 1944-1945.
Source: From Canada: Our Century, Our Story: Ontario Edition, Student text by Fielding/Evans. © 2001. Reprinted with permission of Nelson, a division of Thomson Learning: www.thomsonrights.com. Fax 800-730-2215.
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Military Fatalities in World War II,
Selected Countries
In all, the terrible bloodbath between
1939 and 1945 claimed the lives of
nearly 60 million civilians and soldiers.
Source: Christopher A. Sharpe, “Military Activity in the Second World War,” Plate 47 of Donald Kerr and Deryck W. Holdsworth, eds., Historical Atlas of Canada, vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
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Of the several routes proposed for a road
link from western Canada to Alaska,
that of the Alaska Highway was
selected in 1942.
Source: Based on Kenneth Coates, ed., The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985), p. xix.
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After the war an “army” of
40 000 war brides (mainly British) with their
20 000 children, most under the age
of three, arrived in Canada.
H.B. Jefferson Collection/Nova Scotia Archives and Record Management/N-820.
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The family of Private Louis Zarown welcomes
him home, at Mewata Stadium in Calgary, in
July 1945. Wounded twice, Zarowny served
with The Loyal Edmonton Regiment in Italy and Northwestern
Europe.
Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada/Herald Collection/NA-2864-3448.
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Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Louis St. Laurent and Prime
Minister Mackenzie King at the General
Assembly of the United Nations Conference on
International Organization, San Francisco, May 8,
1945.
Library and Archives Canada/C-22720