By Alyssa Hamer on Nov 9, 2016
November 5-11 is National Veterans’ Week, and to commemorate a appearance of Canadian group and women in wars and conflicts, both past and present, we’re digging in to Open Collections to prominence some of a collection equipment from a First and Second World Wars.
Our WWI WWII Poster Collection facilities posters, ephemera and broadsides published in Canada and via Europe to foster recruitment, inspire a squeeze of assets stamps and feat bonds, and prominence methods for ancillary a fight bid for those left during home. To perspective all of a equipment in this collection, click here.
“After a Storm” poster, ca. 1922
“I wish we for a navy” poster, ca. 1917
Wall News Feb. 1945, constructed by a Industrial Information Division of a National Film Board
Within a British Columbia Historical Newspaper Collection there are many references to a fight and a fight bid during home, that yield fascinating discernment into a really genuine impacts a First and Second World Wars had on people right here in B.C. Below is a open notice in a Cumberland Islander journal in 1918 placed by Canada’s Minister of Finance propelling Canadians to live scantily in sequence for some-more supports to go to a fight effort.
“Fellow Canadians!” journal writing from Cumberland Islander Oct 12, 1918
Lastly, a World War we British Press Photograph Collection depicts a day-to-day lives of soldiers and use group and women concerned in each aspect of World War I, from cadet training to infantry sanatorium stays. These images offer as an critical sign of a daily struggles and sacrifices that use group and women done in a past, and continue to make today. You can crop a whole collection here.
Railway workers cleaning carriage, between 1914 and 1918
Captured German airplane, between 1914 and 1918
Clearing a approach for advancing infantry during Somme, between 1914 and 1918
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