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Canadian WWII Posters

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Poster reading You Serve By Saving Buy War Savings Certificates with drawing of smiling soldier…

These posters — also known as "broadsides" — are from Canada during the Second World War. They were made by different government agencies.

Here's an overview on how wartime posters evolved in Canada:

"Early Canadian Second World War propaganda, produced largely under the auspices of the Bureau of Public Information, was informative, word- rather than image-driven, and often relied on humour to relay its messages. Later, wartime demands led to a change of tactics. More aggressive, design-driven, and often sombre propaganda campaigns focused on building unity, harnessing collective energy, and demonstrating the evils of fascism. They also celebrated Canadian achievements in combat, and inspired people with the promise of a better postwar world." (Canadian War Museum)

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Me and my war savings are just like this!
Keay, Jack
Between 1939 and 1945
Nothing matters now but victory
Canada. National War Finance Committee
1943
Poster reading You Serve By Saving Buy War Savings Certificates with drawing of smiling soldier…
Sampson, Joseph Ernest
Between 1939-1945
Absence makes the war grow longer
Unknown
Between 1939 and 1945
Big guns of the home front
Canada. Department of Public Information
Between 1939 and 1945
Buy Victory bonds
Canada. National War Finance Committee
1943
Canada is short of coal
Canada. Department of Munitions and Supply
1942
Careless talk brings tragedy in wartime
Canada. Department of Public Information
Approximately 1940
Dig in and dig out the scrap
Canada. Department of Public Information
Approximately 1940
Eat right ... feel right
Health League of Canada. Nutrition Committee
Between 1939 and 1945
Get out that tank
Canada. Department of Public Information
1941-42
Give us the ships
Canada. Wartime Information Board
1941
Hey gang!
Arbuckle, Franklin
Between 1939 and 1945
Housewives! Wage war on Hitler
Canada. Department of Public Information
Approximately 1941
If you don't need it ... don't buy it
Canada. Department of Public Information
Approximately 1941
Keep these hands off!
Canada. National War Finance Committee
Approximately 1942
Roll 'em out!
Aluminum Company of Canada
1940-45
Somebody talked!
Canada. Wartime Information Board
1939-45
This is our strength ... labour and management
Canada. Wartime Information Board
1945