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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.


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.


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.


Women war workers return home after

shift change, Edmonton, 1943.

National Archives of Canada/PA-116122.


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.


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.


A demonstration against conscription

in Montreal.

The Gazette, National Archives of Canada, PA-107910.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Canadian troop movements in northwestern

Europe, 1944-1945.

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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).


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.


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.


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.


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

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