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Selling is a 1941 magazine article about: Canada's War Effort Title: Canada's War Effort Author: Bruce Hutchison Subtitled “A Canadian Images the Swift and Sweeping Transformation from a Peaceful Dominion to a Nation Geared for War” Quoting the 1st page “Canada, the only American nation at war, has been completely melted and recast in eighteen months. Canadian skies are now dotted with planes, and a hundred new flying fields have sprung up, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Here centers the vast air-training program for the whole British Commonwealth of Nations. When war was declared, the regular army had fewer than 5,000 men. Today Canadian army troops on active service number more than 230,000. Three fully equipped Canadian divisions help form the spearhead of the forces guarding Britain against invasion. Starting from scratch, the Dominion is building a modern navy. At Canadian ports hundreds of merchant ships of every size and registry gather in convoys to set out for Britain with vital supplies. From the shores of the Maritime Provinces to the prairies and mountains of the west, the map is spotted with new industries and new industrial towns. What is the dramatic story behind this sweeping transformation? On an afternoon in May, 1940, a coded cable from London brought to the "East Block" on Ottawa's Parliament Hill the terrible news that France was going under. The careful war plans of Britain and Canada were in ruins. Two hours later, dark, craggy C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, was flying to New York on a desperate mission. Canada's own war program and the air plan of the whole British Empire depended upon the supplies he could get in the United States. Most of all, and immediately, Mr. Howe needed planes for the Commonwealth Air Training Plan which had to produce Britain's aviators. Britain had cabled that it could not then go through with its share of the bargain, could not supply the training planes. Even as Mr. Howe flew south, a consignment of planes shipped from Britain to Canada was turned back in mid-Atlantic to help in the Battle of London. Mr. Howe also needed rifles to replace those Canada had stripped from its little army and was sending to Britain. He needed field guns, ammunition-anything he could get. Where Mr. Howe went, whom he saw, we shall not know until after the war. But he got enough to avoid disaster-training planes and odds and ends of small machines collected from many places with the aid of the friendly American Government; the promise of more when they were available; and the guarantee of all the engines he could use to power Canadian-built planes. He got American rifles and the assurance of future supplies. On that day the air-training plan, without which Britain could never hope for supremacy or even equality in the air, was saved by Canada, with the aid of its good neighbor. On that day Canada threw away all its old calculations, all its dependence on Britain for supplies, and undertook the largest task of war ever attempted in so short a time by a nation of its size…" 7” x 10”, 38 pages, 40 B&W photos These are pages from an actual 1941 magazine. No reprints or copies. 41K1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and adsThousands of advertisement pages and old articlesAnything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15 Note to CANADIAN purchasers: Since 2007 I've only been charging 5% GST on purchases. Thanks to a recent CRA audit I must change to the full GST/HST charge. Different provinces have different rates, though most are just 5%. My GST/HST number is 84416 2784 RT0001 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister
