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Events from the year 1942 in Canada.
Canadian Press reporter's landing craft "under intense Nazi fire" from boats, planes and infantry at Dieppe [4]
Official study details objectives, heroism and failures of combined commando raid on Dieppe, France [5]
Canadian soldier in Dieppe raid describes prisoner-of-war camp life in Germany [6]
Painting: portrait of Indigenous soldier Lloyd George Moore, Royal Canadian Artillery [7]
"Considerable excitement and tension" - HMCS Oakville rams U-boat while on convoy duty in Caribbean Sea [8]
Pubnico, Nova Scotia children salvage flour, cigarettes and candy bars from torpedoed freighters in harbour [9]
"Blasted from a cosy state room to a cold, icy water" - Survivors' tales of torpedoed Sydney–to–Port-aux-Basques ferry Caribou [10]
Illustration: U.S. Coast Guard rescues Canadian fliers from Greenland ice shelf [11]
To maintain status quo with Vichy France, Allies manoeuvre to get Free French forces off St. Pierre and Miquelon [12]
Minister of Finance says Canadians not working for themselves or their families, but for victory [13]
In U.S. government profile of Allies, Canada noted for contributions like 2 billion pounds of food and "54% of everyone's income" [14]
"Has Canada fully mobilized her material resources [and] man and woman power to wage total war?" - Opposition Leader's 7-point plan [15]
Federal agriculture minister James Gardiner lists supports and goals for producers, and praises farm men, women and children [16]
PM King broadcasts enhanced plan of men's, women's and youth's service to achieve "total effort for total war" [17]
Women's Land Army members work on farms and socialize with Canadian soldiers in Sussex, England [18]
In House of Commons debate, Minister of National Defence J.L. Ralston addresses total war policy and conscription [19]
"The most sacred understanding" - PM King asks voters for release from pledge of no conscription for overseas military service [20]
Canadians vote "yes" in conscription plebiscite by large majorities in 8 provinces, with strong "no" in Quebec [21]
"A systemic policy of annihilation" - Zionist congress of Switzerland reports millions of Jews killed [22]
"Defensive measures of the racial brotherhood" - " Final Solution" should include sterilization of " half-Jews" [23]
Eviction from coastal British Columbia creates many social problems for people of Japanese origin [24]
Young interned Japanese Canadians seek pen pals to "sling some ink our way" [25]
Japanese Canadian George Tanaka experiences feeling of freedom in Toronto, along with both sympathy and racism [26]
Canadian diplomat in Washington strongly suspects U.S. government is eavesdropping on his communications [27]
Drills and training part of Manitoba's Air Raid Precaution campaign, though federal government calls it unnecessary [28]
As part of Victory Bonds campaign, Winnipeg stages " If Day" mock German invasion including arrest of premier and mayor [29]
Film: newsreel report on If Day in Winnipeg [30]
"Death and Destruction!" - Victory Bonds promotion page shows Hamilton, Ont. after bomber attack [31]
Hamilton hydro commission prohibits commercial and decorative lighting, and dims street lights to 60% [32]
"Environments created by war foster dangerous inclinations and tendencies" - PM King urges temperance as part of war effort [33]
"Prophet of a new idea" - Journalist Bruce Hutchison's tribute to late CCF leader and co-founder J.S. Woodsworth [34]
"There is work for everyone" - Whitehorse, Yukon transformed by industrial development [35]
Wife of U.S. Army general enjoys settling in Whitehorse (Note: " squaw" and rape mentioned) [36]
Brief film of Alberta oil sands being quarried and refined [37]
After three decades and 1.6 billion feet of lumber cut, Fort Frances, Ont. mill closes with banquet and dance for employees [38]
Future Netherlands queen Juliana's Ottawa maternity suite declared outside Canadian jurisdiction for birth of her third child [39]
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Events from the year 1942 in Canada.
Canadian Press reporter's landing craft "under intense Nazi fire" from boats, planes and infantry at Dieppe [4]
Official study details objectives, heroism and failures of combined commando raid on Dieppe, France [5]
Canadian soldier in Dieppe raid describes prisoner-of-war camp life in Germany [6]
Painting: portrait of Indigenous soldier Lloyd George Moore, Royal Canadian Artillery [7]
"Considerable excitement and tension" - HMCS Oakville rams U-boat while on convoy duty in Caribbean Sea [8]
Pubnico, Nova Scotia children salvage flour, cigarettes and candy bars from torpedoed freighters in harbour [9]
"Blasted from a cosy state room to a cold, icy water" - Survivors' tales of torpedoed Sydney–to–Port-aux-Basques ferry Caribou [10]
Illustration: U.S. Coast Guard rescues Canadian fliers from Greenland ice shelf [11]
To maintain status quo with Vichy France, Allies manoeuvre to get Free French forces off St. Pierre and Miquelon [12]
Minister of Finance says Canadians not working for themselves or their families, but for victory [13]
In U.S. government profile of Allies, Canada noted for contributions like 2 billion pounds of food and "54% of everyone's income" [14]
"Has Canada fully mobilized her material resources [and] man and woman power to wage total war?" - Opposition Leader's 7-point plan [15]
Federal agriculture minister James Gardiner lists supports and goals for producers, and praises farm men, women and children [16]
PM King broadcasts enhanced plan of men's, women's and youth's service to achieve "total effort for total war" [17]
Women's Land Army members work on farms and socialize with Canadian soldiers in Sussex, England [18]
In House of Commons debate, Minister of National Defence J.L. Ralston addresses total war policy and conscription [19]
"The most sacred understanding" - PM King asks voters for release from pledge of no conscription for overseas military service [20]
Canadians vote "yes" in conscription plebiscite by large majorities in 8 provinces, with strong "no" in Quebec [21]
"A systemic policy of annihilation" - Zionist congress of Switzerland reports millions of Jews killed [22]
"Defensive measures of the racial brotherhood" - " Final Solution" should include sterilization of " half-Jews" [23]
Eviction from coastal British Columbia creates many social problems for people of Japanese origin [24]
Young interned Japanese Canadians seek pen pals to "sling some ink our way" [25]
Japanese Canadian George Tanaka experiences feeling of freedom in Toronto, along with both sympathy and racism [26]
Canadian diplomat in Washington strongly suspects U.S. government is eavesdropping on his communications [27]
Drills and training part of Manitoba's Air Raid Precaution campaign, though federal government calls it unnecessary [28]
As part of Victory Bonds campaign, Winnipeg stages " If Day" mock German invasion including arrest of premier and mayor [29]
Film: newsreel report on If Day in Winnipeg [30]
"Death and Destruction!" - Victory Bonds promotion page shows Hamilton, Ont. after bomber attack [31]
Hamilton hydro commission prohibits commercial and decorative lighting, and dims street lights to 60% [32]
"Environments created by war foster dangerous inclinations and tendencies" - PM King urges temperance as part of war effort [33]
"Prophet of a new idea" - Journalist Bruce Hutchison's tribute to late CCF leader and co-founder J.S. Woodsworth [34]
"There is work for everyone" - Whitehorse, Yukon transformed by industrial development [35]
Wife of U.S. Army general enjoys settling in Whitehorse (Note: " squaw" and rape mentioned) [36]
Brief film of Alberta oil sands being quarried and refined [37]
After three decades and 1.6 billion feet of lumber cut, Fort Frances, Ont. mill closes with banquet and dance for employees [38]
Future Netherlands queen Juliana's Ottawa maternity suite declared outside Canadian jurisdiction for birth of her third child [39]