Wartime Propaganda in Canada

What message is the poster sending?

What points of view are represented?

What or who is left out?

What is this poster hoping to inspire?

What do the figures shown in this poster represent? What does this tell us about what it meant to be Canadian at the time?

TO VICTORY, BY CHARLES RICH WILCOX (CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM/DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES, OTTAWA/19680122-044).

What message is the poster sending?

What points of view are represented?

What or who is left out?

What does this poster appear to tell us about Canada’s war effort, who was involved, and how?

SHE SERVES THAT MEN MAY FLY: ENLIST TODAY IN THE R.C.A.F., BY TED HARRIS (MCGILL LIBRARY/RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/CANADIAN WAR POSTER COLLECTION/WP2.R28.F5).

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