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1941 in Canada

Events from the year 1941 in Canada.

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David Kilgour, 2008
 
Denys Arcand at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
  • June 25 - Denys Arcand, film director, screenwriter and producer

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William Howard Hearst

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Outline guide to Canadian Army, including organization, training, arms and services, medical services, auxiliary services and "Need for Men"[24]

PM King: "The war has grown in intensity and extent. Threats have become realities[...]and fears have been turned into terrors."[25]

"The American Republics [are] in serious danger" - President Roosevelt calls for defence of Western Hemisphere[26]

"War is approaching" - Roosevelt warns American republics of Nazi intentions of subversion and enslavement in hemisphere[27]

PM King agrees it's important to convince Latin America that Nazis are as menacing to South America as to North[28]

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to Atlantic Charter's principles of postwar peace at shipboard conference in Newfoundland[29]

Franklin Roosevelt's account of covert voyage to his meeting with Winston Churchill in Newfoundland[30]

Advocating nuclear weapons, MAUD Committee compares power of 25 lbs. of uranium material to millions of pounds that exploded in 1917 Halifax[31]

By attacking U.S. and British Empire forces, Japanese "make their own ruin inevitable"[32]

"A tremendous financial burden" - PM King details Canada's direct and indirect contributions (money, materiel and people) to war effort[33]

Canada enhances Northwest Staging Route for transit of U.S. warplanes and supplies through Yukon to besieged U.S.S.R.[34]

Thank-you letter to Vuntut Gwitchin for money contributed to orphans and homeless children in Britain[35]

Communist Party of Canada challenges RCMP commissioner's remarks regarding "reds"[36]

Interned Soviet sympathizers demand release from Canadian "concentration camp" after Germany attacks U.S.S.R.[37]

High school girls join Ontario Farm Service Force to pick fruit on Niagara Peninsula as their war service[38]

High school girls in YWCA's Hi-Y clubs raise funds selling War Savings stamps at movie theatres[39]

"Give him my love" - with "very real warmth," Mackenzie King asks Washington official to pass message to Franklin Roosevelt[40]

"What a shock" - House of Commons reacts to news of Frederick Banting's death in airplane crash[41]

Prime Minister King offers to find government job for defeated MP Agnes Macphail[42]

Film reveals Winston Churchill's comic timing in his Some Chicken - Some Neck! speech to Parliament[43]

Humorous letter about searching for Kawartha Lakes, Ontario soldiers for writer to host in England[44]

Teenager experiences gay scene in movie theatres of downtown Toronto[45]

Film: air route from Edmonton to Alaska[46]

Memories of 60 years' work at Great Lakes grain elevator about to be torn down[47]

"A friend completely trusted" - obituary for Prime Minister King's dog Pat[48]

References

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  1. ^ "King George VI | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
  3. ^ Ross Eaman, Historical Dictionary of Journalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009), p. 100.
  4. ^ Mitsuo Yesaki, Sutebusuton: A Japanese Village on the British Columbia Coast (Peninsula Publishing, 2003), p. 100.
  5. ^ Fiona M. Kay & Joan Brockman, "Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment" in Women in the World's Legal Professions (eds. Ulrike Schultz & Gisela Shaw; Hart Publishing, 2003), p. 52.
  6. ^ Joan Brockman, Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould (UBC Press, 2001), pp. 6-7.
  7. ^ Peter S. McInnis, Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 (University of Toronto Press, 2002), p. 225.
  8. ^ Jacques Rouillard [fr], Arvida Strike, Canadian Encyclopedia.
  9. ^ Peter Neville, Historical Dictionary of British Foreign Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2013), pp. 33-34.
  10. ^ Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia (UBC Press, 2005), p. 100.
  11. ^ Naomi E.S. Griffiths, The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1993 (McGill-Queen's Press, 1993), pp. 218.
  12. ^ Canadians in Hong Kong, Veterans Affairs Canada.
  13. ^ Charles G. Roland, Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001), p. 14.
  14. ^ 1941: Japanese attack Canadian troops in Hong Kong, CBC Digital Archive.
  15. ^ Robert Craig Brown, in "Full Partnership in the Fortunes and Future of the Nation", in Ethnicity and Citizenship: The Canadian Case (eds. Jean Laponce & William Safran), p. 22.
  16. ^ Terence Morley, "The Government of the Day: The Premier and Cabinet in British Columbia" in Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia (ed. R. Kenneth Carty; UBC Press, 1996) p. 144.
  17. ^ John T. Saywell, "Lieutenant-Governors", in The Provincial Political Systems: Comparative Essays (eds. David J. Bellamy et al.; Methuen Publications, 1976) p. 300.
  18. ^ M. Jane Fairburn, Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto's Waterfront Heritage (ECW Press, 2013), p. 179.
  19. ^ Lucas, Ralph (September 17, 2014). "Roberta Maxwell".
  20. ^ Paybarah, Azi; Jiménez, Jesus (August 22, 2021). "Rod Gilbert, Hockey Hall of Famer Known as Mr. Ranger, Dies at 80". The New York Times. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  21. ^ Briet, William; Hirsch, Barry T., eds. (2006). "Myron S. Scholes". Lives of the Laureates Eighteen Nobel Economists. Academic Foundation. p. 235. ISBN 978-81-7188-526-8.
  22. ^ Cleveland Amory (1986). Celebrity Register. Harper & Row. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-9615476-0-8.
  23. ^ "Émile Nelligan | Canadian poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  24. ^ The Gentleman in Battledress (1941), pgs. 10-47 (PDF frames 7-25). (See also journalists' tour of military establishments and war plants in With Canada's Fighting Men and portrait of Black soldier Trooper O.G. Govan) (1941)) Accessed 17 May 2022
  25. ^ W.L. Mackenzie King, "The War; Review of International Situation Since June 14, 1941" (November 3, 1941), House of Commons Debates, 19th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 4, pg. 4049. Accessed 16 August 2020
  26. ^ Franklin Roosevelt, "Annual message to the Congress,...January 6, 1941" Development of United States Foreign Policy; Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942), pg. 83. Accessed 2 July 2020
  27. ^ Franklin Roosevelt, "Speech of the President; Pan-American Union; May 27, 1941," Franklin D. Roosevelt, Master Speech File, 1898-1945, Box 60, Pan American Union Address Proclaiming an Unlimited National Emergency. Accessed 2 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=582 (scroll down to Box 60; Pan American Union Address); audio: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/utterancesfdr#afdr234
  28. ^ Letter of Mackenzie King to Franklin Roosevelt (June 25, 1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 3: Diplomatic Correspondence, Box 25, Canada, 1941, (PDF pgs. 33-4). Accessed 1 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 25; Canada, 1941)
  29. ^ "The Atlantic Charter. Official Statement on Meeting Between the President and Prime Minister Churchill. August 14, 1941" The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1941 Volume, pgs. 314-15. Accessed 3 July 2020. original shipboard dispatch: "Atlantic Squadron, Outgoing; White Twentythree X In Three Parts[....] Begin Part Two" (ca. August 12, 1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 1, Atlantic Charter (2), (PDF pgs. 2-3). Accessed 1 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 1; Atlantic Charter (2))
  30. ^ Franklin Roosevelt, "Memorandum of Trip to Meet Winston Churchill, August, 1941" (August 23, 1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 1, Atlantic Charter (1), (PDF pgs. 55-9). Accessed 1 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 1; Atlantic Charter (1))
  31. ^ MAUD Committee Report (1941), Atomic Heritage Foundation. Accessed 20 November 2021
  32. ^ "Prospects in the Far East," The Winnipeg Tribune, 52nd Year, No. 303 (December 19, 1941), pg. 6. Accessed 2 July 2020. clipping: https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1332215 full page: http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/tribune/website/clippings/World_War_II-Pacific_War/Dec19_1941.shtml
  33. ^ W.L. Mackenzie King, "Canada's Contribution to Freedom; Speech [given in] New York, June 17, 1941," pgs. 12-15, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 3: Diplomatic Correspondence, Box 25, Canada, 1941, (PDF pgs. 45-8). Accessed 1 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 25; Canada, 1941)
  34. ^ "Whitehorse Airport a Pivotal Point for Transport of U.S. Supplies to U.S.S.R." Whitehorse Star (October 31, 1941). Accessed 2 July 2020
  35. ^ Letter of Minister of Mines and Resources to Chief Peter Moses (November 1, 1941). Accessed 2 July 2020
  36. ^ "A Spectre Is Haunting Commissioner Wood!" The Clarion, Vol. 1, No. 14 (February 25, 1941). Accessed 2 July 2020
  37. ^ Peter Krawchuk, "17. June 22, 1941" Interned without Cause. Accessed 2 July 2020
  38. ^ "25 K-W Girls To Pick Fruit," Kitchener Daily Record (May 29, 1941). Accessed 2 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/exhibits/ywca-1905-1995/war-years (click on image)
  39. ^ "Y.W.C.A. Girls Raise $868 For War Savings Committee," probably in Kitchener Daily Record (January 25, 1941). Accessed 2 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/exhibits/ywca-1905-1995/war-years (click NEXT to article and click on image)
  40. ^ Letter of Archibald MacLeish (February 15, 1941), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 3: Diplomatic Correspondence, Box 25, Canada, 1941, (PDF pg. 5). Accessed 1 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 25; Canada, 1941)
  41. ^ "Sir Frederick Banting" (February 24, 1941), House of Commons Debates, 19th Parliament, 2nd Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 939-40. Accessed 28 February 2020
  42. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1941 (January 7) pgs. 15-16. Accessed 3 July 2020
  43. ^ British Pathé, "'Some Chicken - Some Neck!' Mr. Churchill at Ottawa." Accessed 10 May 2020
  44. ^ Letter-to-editor of T.G. Nye (January 1, 1941), "Ex-Canuck Asks Post's Aid in Saving Army Shoe Soles" Lindsay (Ontario) Daily Post. Accessed 2 July 2020
  45. ^ "John Grube's Interview with George Hislop" pgs. 7-14. Accessed 18 May 2020
  46. ^ British Pathé, "American Aeroplanes Are Flown Across Canada For Delivery to Russian Pilots" (1945). Accessed 27 July 2020
  47. ^ "Busy Days at Doomed Elevator Recalled by J.P. Gratton, Who Saw Sailing Ships in Port Here" Kingston Whig Standard (November 4, 1941). Accessed 3 July 2020
  48. ^ Bruce Hutchison, "End of a Long Companionship," Victoria Times Colonist (July 31, 1941). Accessed 3 July 2020 https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/9/h9-150.05-e.html (scroll down to "Clipping")
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