1939 in Canada

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With crisis in Europe, MP suggests Canada follow up on Statute of Westminster by declaring neutrality and following America-oriented defence policy[6]

Labour Day finds fighters and nurses enlisting for overseas service and Red Cross rushing its wartime planning[7]

Editorial says Canada and Commonwealth are "one and indivisible, [and] pledged unwaveringly to the support of the Mother Country"[8]

Before declaring war, PM King asks Commons for "authority for effective cooperation by Canada at the side of Britain"[9]

MP J.S. Woodsworth interrogates "cooperation," unspoken government policy, and whether Canada is already in war[10]

"We cannot be at peace while the head of this Empire is at war" - Sen. Arthur Meighen insists Canada enter European conflict[11]

Canada's declaration of war against German Reich[12]

Editorial says PM King, in choosing home defence over expeditionary force, is not giving "definite leadership"[13]

Regimen for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry's transport ship includes lectures, training and organized games[14]

Enlisted man's 1939 surprises: Poland's fall weeks after invasion, and Christmas invitation given on his first day in England[15]

Editorial says "equality of sacrifice," essential to war effort, must include fairness in agricultural costs, prices and margins[16]

British meals depend on Canada for breakfast porridge and (with other wheat exporters) bread, and cheese, tinned soup, and suet in pudding at tea[17]

MP A.A. Heaps advocates joining other countries in welcoming refugees from persecution[18]

Mentioning uranium ore in Canada and German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Einstein urges President Roosevelt to back atomic energy research[19]

"Only a mile from home" - Eleven-year-old student Andrew Gordon from Gordon's reserve residential school dies of exposure walking home[20]

Supreme Court finds tavern, in absence of specific law, has "freedom of commerce" to not serve Black man[21]

Law professor comments on Quebec's Padlock Law allowing police to seal premises and arrest occupants deemed "communistic"[22]

Private intelligence agency offers to spy on corporation's workers to detect "plots, plans and unrest"[23]

Mao's appreciation of Norman Bethune - "We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him"[24]

Poster: "Time Is Life" depicts Bethune riding a galloping horse[25]

King George VI - "It is my earnest hope that my present visit may give my Canadian people a deeper conception of their unity as a nation."[26]

Woman records her excitement over 1939 royal tour of George VI and Elizabeth in her diary[27]

Film of royal tour's stops in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver and Victoria[28]

CBC chairman tells House committee move into television will not come soon because of its current technical and financial limitations[29]

Course in interior decoration includes hands-on stitching, glazing, block-printing, weaving, lettering, etc., etc.[30]

Photo: children work on their art projects in Arthur Lismer's children's art classes in Toronto[31]

Calling "more friendly relations" essential to world progress, bank's advertisement pledges friendship in its service[32]

References
  1. "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. "House of Commons Procedure and Practice – 8. The Parliamentary Cycle – Opening a Parliament and a Session". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  4. "Australia-Canada relations" (PDF). Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
  5. Constance Piers
  6. "Mr. Wilfrid Lacroix (Quebec-Montmorency)" Debates of the House of Commons (January 30, 1939), 18th Parliament, 4th Session. Accessed 8 January 2023
  7. "Holiday Finds Canada Making Ready for War," Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record (September 4, 1939), pg. 3. Accessed 22 June 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3000671 (turn to pg. 3)
  8. "The Empire at War" The Charlottetown Guardian (September 4, 1939), pg. 4. Accessed 22 June 2020
  9. "Governor General's Speech; Address in Reply..." (September 8, 1939), House of Commons Debates, 18th Parliament, 5th Session: Vol. 1, pg. 30. Accessed 20 June 2020
  10. "Governor General's Speech; Address in Reply..." (September 8, 1939), House of Commons Debates, 18th Parliament, 5th Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 41-3. Accessed 21 June 2020
  11. "The Governor General's Speech; Address in Reply" (September 9, 1939), Senate Debates, 18th Parliament, 5th Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 8-11. Accessed 20 June 2020
  12. "Proclamation" The Canada Gazette (September 10, 1939). Accessed 23 June 2020 Also published by Canadian Press
  13. "Canada Enters the Struggle," Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record (September 11, 1939), pg. 4. Accessed 23 June 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3000690 (turn to pg. 4)
  14. Lieut. Col. W.G. Colquhoun, "Ship's Standing Orders;[...]S.S. Orama" (December 1939). Accessed 23 June 2020 https://archives.ppcli.com/74-1-1-ships-standing-orders (click on document for PDF copy)
  15. "Veteran Stories: Fernand Trépanier, Army" The Memory Project. Accessed 23 June 2020
  16. "With All Our Resources" The Western Farm Leader, Vol. 4, No. 18 (Calgary, September 15, 1939), pg. 4. Accessed 22 June 2020
  17. "Food; Meals and Where They Come From" British Survey, Vol. 1, No. 15 (November 10, 1939), pg. 58. Accessed 12 September 2022
  18. "Governor General's Speech; Continuation of Debate on Address in Reply" (January 30, 1939), House of Commons debates, 18th Parliament, 4th Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 432-6. Accessed 21 June 2020
  19. Einstein-Szilard Letter (August 2, 1939), Atomic Heritage Foundation. Accessed 20 November 2021
  20. "Indian Boy Frozen on Bush Trail" The (Regina) Leader-Post, Vol. XXXI, No. 62 (March 15, 1939). Accessed 23 June 2021
  21. Christie v. The York Corporation, Supreme Court Judgments (1939-12-09). Accessed 20 June 2020
  22. John T.[sic] Humphrey, "Homes are Not Castles" (truncated), The Canadian Magazine (March 1939). Accessed 23 June 2020
  23. Letter from General Investigations of Canada Limited (March 29, 1939). Accessed 23 June 2020 https://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/sar/part2.htm (scroll down to Solicitation)
  24. Mao Zedong, "In Memory of Norman Bethune" (December 21, 1939), Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Vol. II; The Period of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Accessed 23 June 2020
  25. Zhang Xingguo, "Time Is Life" (1975). Accessed 14 July 2021
  26. "The King's Speech" (May 19, 1939), Debates of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada 1939; Fourth Session, Eighteenth Parliament, 3 George VI, pg. 400. Accessed 23 May 2021
  27. Diary of Vera (Collins) Webb (excerpts of May 17 and 26, 1939). Accessed 23 June 2020 https://archivesalberta.org/diary/royal.htm (click on illustrations to read excerpts)
  28. British Pathé, "The Royal Tour of Western Canada." Accessed 10 May 2020
  29. Testimony of Leonard Brockington (March 2, 1939), Special Committee on Radio Broadcasting, pgs. 17-19. Accessed 28 October 2020
  30. "Design; Fourth Year," Behind the Palette; Vancouver School of Art; March - Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-nine (unpaginated). Accessed 23 June 2020 https://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad%3A9024/issue_pages?page=1 (click on image 020)
  31. Ronny Jaques, Children work on art projects (ca. 1939-40), Lismer's Children's Art Classes Toronto, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 4 July 2021
  32. The Bank of Toronto, "Friendly Relations" The Western Farm Leader, Vol. 4, No. 18 (Calgary, September 15, 1939), pg. 2. Accessed 22 June 2020
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