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1940 in Canada

Events from the year 1940 in Canada.

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"The influence of the older generation" - Indian residential school principal sorry his pupils' "good training" neutralized at home[4]

"Almost terrifying sums of money" - Transport Minister C.D. Howe on War Supply Board's huge task, and power[5]

Training facilities across Canada will be set up to turn out 35,000 Commonwealth pilots, air gunners and observers annually[6]

Infantry training at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition grounds to supply reinforcements for units now in England[7]

Limit to "complete equality for women" is on North Atlantic as female reporters tour Canadian destroyer at sea[8]

CBC speeches by J.W. Dafoe, playwright Robert E. Sherwood, novelist James Hilton and columnist Dorothy Thompson on wartime "causes and issues"[9]

Controversy erupts in Ontario Liberal Party over Premier Hepburn's "personal grudge" censure of King war policy[10]

"My own bomb came looking for me, but I was not at home" - Canadian diplomat survives Blitz (just barely) in London[11]

King George walks five miles and stops to chat 50 times as he inspects Canadian First Division in England[12]

First loan drive (for 12-year bonds at 3.25% interest) brings in more than $136 million from cities, towns and hamlets[13]

Nazi-linked German nationals and suspect German-Canadians to be interned as possibly dangerous to Canada[14]

"No place for excitement in the hearts of people" regarding federal election issues, but deep concern over world affairs in Ottawa[15]

Hours before its capitulation to Germans, Canadian, British and U.S. governments pledge help to imperilled France[16]

Following fall of France, Quebec editorials call on English and French Canadian men to heed call to Canada's defence[17]

Every Canadian resident (including aliens) 16 or over must comply with National Registration process and carry registration certificate at all times[18]

Importance of British subject status and "race" (e.g., English, Scottish, French, Italian) in National Registration process[19]

Montreal mayor interned as "prejudicial to the public safety" after he "blasted" wartime compulsory training order[20]

Editorials point out importance of U.S.A. to Allies' struggle, and its people's recognition of that[21]

Canada shifting main war partnership from Britain to U.S.A.; public wants greater war effort (except overseas conscription)[22]

U.S. ambassador reports Canadian public demanding "some form of joint defence understanding with the United States"[23]

U.S.A. and Canada set up Permanent Joint Board on Defence to protect North America[24]

Leslie Gilbert Illingworth political cartoon of U.S.-Canada defence pact has Wild West setting[25]

Supervisor of German sanitorium and Württemberg bishop object to unlawful killing of mental patients and epileptics[26]

"Such a sudden and swift offensive" - Ukrainian-Canadian leftists are arrested in wide police sweep in Winnipeg[27]

With government "forcing conscription of unemployed and needy youth," Canadian Youth Congress wants training and jobs[28]

Liberal Party federal election leaflet identifies CCF (and Nazis) as socialist[29]

German Jewish refugee Frederick Mendel turns Saskatoon meatpacking plant into thriving business[30]

Anarchist Emma Goldman feels "gagged and paralyzed" in wartime Canada as she collects money for refugees[31]

Black man becomes CPR sleeping car porter after being repeatedly rejected as machinist and told to shine shoes (Note: "nigger" used)[32]

References

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  1. ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  4. ^ A.E. Caldwell, Letter from Principal Caldwell to Mrs. J.C. Goodfellow (Indian Residential School, Ahousaht, B.C., January 4, 1940). Accessed 6 June 2021
  5. ^ Canadian Press, "Wheels of Industry Geared Up to War, Howe Tells Canada" The Globe and Mail (January 8, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  6. ^ Canadian Press, "Air Training Bases In Canada Being Increased To 77" The Winnipeg Tribune, 51st Year, No. 20 (January 23, 1940), pg. 2. Accessed 29 June 2020 (See also Wartime Souvenir of Carberry and its flight training school in Manitoba)
  7. ^ George Lawrence, "Toronto School Training Infantrymen in 16 Weeks" The Toronto Daily Star (January 6, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  8. ^ Marion MacIntosh, Canadian Press, "Women Reporters Conclude Navy Is Strictly for Men" The Hamilton Spectator (January 29, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  9. ^ Let's Face the Facts; Four Addresses from a Series of Radio Broadcasts (1940). Accessed 17 May 2022
  10. ^ "Hepburn Repudiated by Toronto Liberals (who) Send Mr. King Wire" The Toronto Daily Star (January 19, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  11. ^ Charles Ritchie, "Bombers' Moon" Radio Guide, Volume 4, Number 11 (November 1984), pgs. 37-9. Accessed 18 November 2020
  12. ^ Canadian Press, "Canadians Hail The King At Five-Hour Inspection" and "The King Greets Canadian V.C.'s" The Globe and Mail (January 25, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  13. ^ Canadian Press, "Bank of Canada Is Deluged with Subscription Demands in $5,000 Amounts and Less" The Hamilton Spectator (January 16, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  14. ^ "R.C.M.P. Nipped Nazi Plots to Sabotage Industry Here" The Toronto Daily Star (January 27, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  15. ^ Spectator, "The Ottawa Spotlight; (Weekly Review of National Affairs)" The Strathmore (Alberta) Standard, Vol. XXXI, No. 20 (March 21, 1940), pg. 1. Accessed 28 June 2020
  16. ^ Telegrams of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat to State Department (June 14 and 15, 1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 2, Canada, (PDF pgs 2-4). Accessed 25 June 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Series 1, Box 2, Canada)
  17. ^ "Compulsory Defence Service"; and The French Press: "We Must Defend Canada," Le Canada (Montreal), and "Canada Remains Engaged," Le Soleil (Quebec City), The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLXIX, No. 147 (June 19, 1940), pg. 8. Accessed 26 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19400619&printsec=frontpage&hl=en (turn to pg. 8)
  18. ^ Sections 4 and 21, National Registration Regulations 1940 (1940). Accessed 17 May 2022
  19. ^ "Statement re British Nationality" (pgs. 7-8) and "Question 8, Racial Origin" (pg. 11), National Registration Regulations, 1940; Instructions(....) (1940), PDF frame 4. Accessed 17 May 2022
  20. ^ Lawrence W. Conroy, "Houde Arrested, Taken to Internment Camp" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLXIX, No. 188 (August 6, 1940), pgs. 1, 5. Accessed 29 June 2020
  21. ^ "Britain Carries On," and French Press: "American Reaction" (Le Nouvelliste, Three Rivers), Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record (June 17, 1940), pg. 4. Accessed 26 June 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3001376 (turn to pg. 4)
  22. ^ Telegram of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat to State Department (June 23, 1940), "The British Commonwealth of Nations; United Kingdom; Response of the United States to Appeals for Greater Assistance to the British War Effort," Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940; Volume III (1958), pgs. 13-14. Accessed 25 June 2020
  23. ^ Letter of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat (August 14, 1940), "Canada; Establishment of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, The United States and Canada," Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940; Volume III (1958), pgs. 144-5. Accessed 25 June 2020
  24. ^ "White House Statement on Establishment of Joint Board on Defense of Canada and the United States. August 18, 1940" The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1940 Volume, pg. 331. Accessed 25 June 2020
  25. ^ "Yeah! Sure is a purty piece of artillery" (August 28, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020
  26. ^ Letters (in translation) of L. Schlaich (Stettin, September 6, 1940) and Bishop Wurm of Wuerttemberg Evangelical Provincial Church (July 19, 1940 and after), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1216-17, 1218-24 (PDF pgs. 1241-2, 1243-9). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  27. ^ Peter Krawchuk, "3. Unforgettable July 6" Interned without Cause. Accessed 26 June 2020
  28. ^ Canadian Youth Congress, "Youth Wants Jobs, Not Conscription" (1940). Accessed 26 June 2020 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/canadian-youth-congress-leaflet-6-8-july-1940 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000666.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000666-2.jpg
  29. ^ North Battleford [Saskatchewan] Liberal Association, "C.C.F. Stands for Socialism" Accessed 26 June 2020
  30. ^ Winnipeg Free Press, "Refugee" Industries in Canada, pgs. 19-21. Accessed 26 June 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/6482/23.html (Note: Frederick Mendel's name is misspelled)
  31. ^ Letter of Emma Goldman (February 8, 1940). Accessed 26 June 2020 https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/PrimarySources/scanneddocuments.html (scroll down to letter34)
  32. ^ Stanley Grizzle interview of Leonard O. Johnston (March 11, 1988), "Gaskin, Leo, W.C. Wright and L.O. Johnston - Interviews" second transcription, pgs. 8, 11, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 19 February 2023
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