1942 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1942 in Canada.

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Canadian Press reporter's landing craft "under intense Nazi fire" from boats, planes and infantry at Dieppe[4]

Official study details objectives, heroism and failures of combined commando raid on Dieppe, France[5]

Canadian soldier in Dieppe raid describes prisoner-of-war camp life in Germany[6]

Painting: portrait of Indigenous soldier Lloyd George Moore, Royal Canadian Artillery[7]

"Considerable excitement and tension" - rams U-boat while on convoy duty in Caribbean Sea[8]

Pubnico, Nova Scotia children salvage flour, cigarettes and candy bars from torpedoed freighters in harbour[9]

"Blasted from a cosy state room to a cold, icy water" - Survivors' tales of torpedoed Sydney–to–Port-aux-Basques ferry Caribou[10]

Illustration: U.S. Coast Guard rescues Canadian fliers from Greenland ice shelf[11]

To maintain status quo with Vichy France, Allies manoeuvre to get Free French forces off St. Pierre and Miquelon[12]

Minister of Finance says Canadians not working for themselves or their families, but for victory[13]

In U.S. government profile of Allies, Canada noted for contributions like 2 billion pounds of food and "54% of everyone's income"[14]

"Has Canada fully mobilized her material resources [and] man and woman power to wage total war?" - Opposition Leader's 7-point plan[15]

Federal agriculture minister James Gardiner lists supports and goals for producers, and praises farm men, women and children[16]

PM King broadcasts enhanced plan of men's, women's and youth's service to achieve "total effort for total war"[17]

Women's Land Army members work on farms and socialize with Canadian soldiers in Sussex, England[18]

In House of Commons debate, Minister of National Defence J.L. Ralston addresses total war policy and conscription[19]

"The most sacred understanding" - PM King asks voters for release from pledge of no conscription for overseas military service[20]

Canadians vote "yes" in conscription plebiscite by large majorities in 8 provinces, with strong "no" in Quebec[21]

"A systemic policy of annihilation" - Zionist congress of Switzerland reports millions of Jews killed[22]

"Defensive measures of the racial brotherhood" - "Final Solution" should include sterilization of "half-Jews"[23]

Eviction from coastal British Columbia creates many social problems for people of Japanese origin[24]

Letter writer calls places Japanese Canadians are sent "pleasant" and "scenic," and calls canyon with snow slides "the only safe place" to put them[25]

Young interned Japanese Canadians seek pen pals to "sling some ink our way"[26]

Japanese Canadian George Tanaka experiences feeling of freedom in Toronto, along with both sympathy and racism[27]

Canadian diplomat in Washington strongly suspects U.S. government is eavesdropping on his communications[28]

Drills and training part of Manitoba's Air Raid Precaution campaign, though federal government calls it unnecessary[29]

As part of Victory Bonds campaign, Winnipeg stages "If Day" mock German invasion including arrest of premier and mayor[30]

Film: newsreel report on If Day in Winnipeg[31]

"Death and Destruction!" - Victory Bonds promotion page shows Hamilton, Ont. after bomber attack[32]

Hamilton hydro commission prohibits commercial and decorative lighting, and dims street lights to 60%[33]

"Environments created by war foster dangerous inclinations and tendencies" - PM King urges temperance as part of war effort[34]

"Prophet of a new idea" - Journalist Bruce Hutchison's tribute to late CCF leader and co-founder J.S. Woodsworth[35]

"There is work for everyone" - Whitehorse, Yukon transformed by industrial development[36]

Wife of U.S. Army general enjoys settling in Whitehorse (Note: "squaw" and rape mentioned)[37]

Brief film of Alberta oil sands being quarried and refined[38]

After three decades and 1.6 billion feet of lumber cut, Fort Frances, Ont. mill closes with banquet and dance for employees[39]

Future Netherlands queen Juliana's Ottawa maternity suite declared outside Canadian jurisdiction for birth of her third child[40]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: King George VI The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
  2. Book: Lentz . Harris M. . Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 . 4 February 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-134-26490-2 . 142 . en.
  3. Web site: Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 . id.loc.gov . 16 March 2019.
  4. Ross Munro, "'I Saw Canadian Heroes Die at Dieppe'" The Vancouver Sun, Vol. LVI, No. 272 (August 20, 1942), pgs. 1, 10. Accessed 10 July 2020
  5. Gillis Purcell, "First Full Exposition Of Dieppe Raid Given" The Globe and Mail (May 18, 1943). Accessed 11 August 2024
  6. Leslie Bernicky, "A Day in the Life of a Prisoner of War" Accessed 7 July 2020
  7. Web site: War Art in Canada Historical Overview . 2024-09-04 . Art Canada Institute - Institut de l’art canadien . en.
  8. Canadian Naval Forces, "Memorandum: To Naval Broadcasting Officer(...); Interview with Lieut. Cully" Accessed 8 July 2020
  9. Web site: Madelyn Moffat – National Home Front Project . 2024-09-04 . en-US.
  10. H. Thornhill, "A Sad and Bitter Tale Related by Mr. J. Lundrigan - A Survivor" and "The Tale of Mr. William Strickland" It Happened in October: The Tragic Sinking of the SS Caribou. Accessed 8 July 2020
  11. Web site: National Archives NextGen Catalog . 2024-09-04 . catalog.archives.gov.
  12. Web site: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum . 2024-03-07 . www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu . en.
  13. J.L. Ilsley, "Canada Delivering The Goods - After Agonizing Years" (January 9, 1942 newspaper clipping). Accessed 8 July 2020
  14. Web site: The thousand million [electronic resource]

    brief stories about the United Nations where live, work, and fight one thousand million friends of the United States / prepared by the staff of the Office of War Information. ]

    . 2024-09-04 . digitalcollections.smu.edu . en.
  15. Web site: House of Commons Debates, 19th Parliament, 3rd ... - Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources . 2024-09-04 . parl.canadiana.ca.
  16. "Farm Forum: Feeding an entire army" (November 9, 1942), National Farm Radio Forum, Radio, CBC Programs, Archives. Accessed 21 January 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/player/archives/cbc%20programs/radio/national%20farm%20radio%20forum (scroll through "National Farm Radio Forum - 10 videos")
  17. Web site: William Lyon Mackenzie King . 2024-09-04.
  18. Web site: BBC - WW2 People's War - Tractor Driver Betty - Part 1 (1941-1943) . 2024-09-04 . www.bbc.co.uk.
  19. https://wartimecanada.ca/document/world-war-ii/contemporary-accounts/extent-canadas-war-effort The Extent of Canada's War Effort
  20. William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Address on the national security plebiscite, April 7, 1942" Accessed 9 July 2020
  21. Web site: WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Conscription - Canada and the War . 2024-09-04 . www.warmuseum.ca . en.
  22. Web site: Search results from Military Legal Resources, Available Online . 2024-09-04 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  23. Web site: Search results from Military Legal Resources, Available Online . 2024-09-04 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  24. https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/tnc-33024/page-1 "Begin Steps on Second Phase of Evacuation; End of Removal Here but People Still Face Many Difficult Issues; Independent Work Basic"
  25. Web site: The Similkameen Star . 2024-09-04 . open.library.ubc.ca . en.
  26. Web site: Image 5 of Granada pioneer (Amache, Colo.), November 7, 1942 . 2024-09-04 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  27. https://archives.studentscommission.ca/magic/mt71.html "Wartime Toronto and Japanese Canadians"
  28. Web site: 16 February 1942: Letter from Wrong to Robertson · “Reasonable Censorship Privileges”?: Eavesdropping on Diplomatic Communications During WWII · Canada Declassified . 2024-09-04 . declassified.library.utoronto.ca.
  29. "'Guinea Pig' Company To Test A.R.P. Methods" (January 17, 1942) and "Manitoba A.R.P. Area; Work To Start Despite 'Not Necessary' Verdict" (January 23, 1942), The Winnipeg Tribune. Accessed 9 July 2020
  30. Web site: The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 1942-02-19 (Page 1) digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca . 2024-09-04 . digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca.
  31. Web site: IF DAY IN WINNIPEG . 2024-09-04 . British Pathé . en-GB.
  32. http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/newspaper-clipping-2-march-1942 "Death and Destruction!; What the Gore Could Look Like After a Dive-Bomber Blitz!"
  33. Mayor Wm. Morrison, "WARNING To All Persons in Hamilton!" (1942). Accessed 8 July 2020
  34. William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canada and the War; Temperance and a Total War Effort" (December 16, 1942 broadcast). Accessed 9 July 2020
  35. Web site: Peel 6487, p. 2 . 2024-09-04 . peel.library.ualberta.ca.
  36. Web site: Alaska Highway - A Yukon Perspective . 2024-09-04 . www.alaskahighwayarchives.ca.
  37. Web site: Archives . University of Saskatchewan . Northern Research Portal: Search all digitized material - University of Saskatchewan . 2024-09-04 . digital.scaa.sk.ca.
  38. Canada's New Oil Reserves Dublin Issue (1942) . 2014-04-13 . British Pathé . 2024-09-04 . YouTube.
  39. https://www.fftimes.com/100-years-100-stories/SCENDS.html "Shevlin-Clarke Co. Ltd. Ends 32 Years of Lumbering Operations in Fort Frances"
  40. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canada-gazette/001060-119.01-e.php?image_id_nbr=340527&document_id_nbr=9450&f=g "Proclamation"

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