←

 1942
in
Canada

→

Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
See also:

Events from the year 1942 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

Sport

Births

January to March

April to June

July to September

October to December

Ralph Klein

Full date unknown

Deaths

See also

Historical documents

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]

References

  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. ↑ "Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Ross Munro, "'I Saw Canadian Heroes Die at Dieppe'" The Vancouver Sun, Vol. LVI, No. 272 (August 20, 1942), pgs. 1, 10. Accessed 10 July 2020
  5. ↑ Gillis Purcell, "First Full Exposition Of Dieppe Raid Given," The Globe and Mail (May 18, 1943). Accessed 8 July 2020 https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html (scroll down to First Full Exposition Of Dieppe Raid Given)
  6. ↑ Leslie Bernicky, "A Day in the Life of a Prisoner of War" Accessed 7 July 2020
  7. ↑ Henry Lamb, "Trooper Lloyd George Moore, RCA" (1942), Canadian War Museum. Accessed 18 May 2022
  8. ↑ Canadian Naval Forces, "Memorandum: To Naval Broadcasting Officer(...); Interview with Lieut. Cully" Accessed 8 July 2020
  9. ↑ Kelsey Sinclair (interviewer), "Madelyn Moffat" National Home Front Project. Accessed 7 August 2020
  10. ↑ H. Thornhill, "A Sad and Bitter Tale Related by Mr. J. Lundrigan - A Survivor" and "The Tale of Mr. William Strickland" It Happened in October: The Tragic Sinking of the SS Caribou. Accessed 8 July 2020
  11. ↑ Norman Thomas, "U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Canadian Fliers" (December 24, 1942), U.S. National Archives. Accessed 24 December 2022
  12. ↑ Letter and telegram of Secretary of State Cordell Hull (January 8, 1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 2, France, (PDF pgs 78-88). Accessed 8 July 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Box 2, France)
  13. ↑ J.L. Ilsley, "Canada Delivering The Goods - After Agonizing Years" (January 9, 1942 newspaper clipping). Accessed 8 July 2020
  14. ↑ U.S. Office of War Information, "Canada" The Thousand Million, pgs. 5-7. Accessed 7 July 2020
  15. ↑ "Governor General's Speech; Continuation of Debate on Address in Reply" (January 26, 1942), House of Commons Debates, 19th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. 1, pgs. 20-1. Accessed 13 July 2020
  16. ↑ "Farm Forum: Feeding an entire army" (November 9, 1942), National Farm Radio Forum, Radio, CBC Programs, Archives. Accessed 21 January 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/player/archives/cbc%20programs/radio/national%20farm%20radio%20forum (scroll through "National Farm Radio Forum - 10 videos")
  17. ↑ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canada and the War: Manpower and a Total War Effort" (August 19, 1942). Accessed 13 July 2020
  18. ↑ Betty Merritt, "Tractor Driver Betty - Part 1 (1941-1943)" WW2 People's War, BBC. Accessed 13 April 2022
  19. ↑ The Extent of Canada's War Effort (February 10, 1942). Accessed 17 May 2022
  20. ↑ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Address on the national security plebiscite, April 7, 1942" Accessed 9 July 2020
  21. ↑ "Canada Keeps the Faith," The Hamilton Spectator (April 28, 1942). Accessed 8 July 2020 https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/conscription_e.html (scroll down to Canada Keeps the Faith)
  22. ↑ Translation from Israelitisches Wochenblatt, No. 48 (November 27, 1942), pg. 6, in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pg. 1230 (PDF pg. 1255). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  23. ↑ Letter of Dr. [Franz] Schlegelberger "RE: Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (translation; April 5, 1942), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 814-16 (PDF pgs. 839-41). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)
  24. ↑ "Begin Steps on Second Phase of Evacuation; End of Removal Here but People Still Face Many Difficult Issues; Independent Work Basic" The New Canadian, Vol. XXV, No. 90 (October 17, 1942), pg. 1. Accessed 10 December 2019 (See also Japanese foreign affairs office protest against internments in Canada (pgs. 1675–6))
  25. ↑ "Letters to the Editor" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, November 7, 1942), pg. 5. Accessed 15 February 2020
  26. ↑ "Wartime Toronto and Japanese Canadians" Polyphony (Summer 1984), pgs. 199-200. Accessed 10 July 2020 (See also "Notice to Enemy Alien" giving Vancouver Japanese Canadian four days to leave)
  27. ↑ Letter of Hume Wrong to Department of External Affairs (February 16, 1942). Accessed 7 July 2020
  28. ↑ "'Guinea Pig' Company To Test A.R.P. Methods" (January 17, 1942) and "Manitoba A.R.P. Area; Work To Start Despite 'Not Necessary' Verdict" (January 23, 1942), The Winnipeg Tribune. Accessed 9 July 2020
  29. ↑ Dick Sanburn, "If On A Black Morn Winnipeg Fell Under Nazi Heel" The Winnipeg Tribune, 53rd Year, No. 43 (February 19, 1942), pg. 1. Accessed 9 July 2020
  30. ↑ British Pathé, "If Day In Winnipeg" (1942). Accessed 27 July 2020
  31. ↑ "Death and Destruction!; What the Gore Could Look Like After a Dive-Bomber Blitz!" The Hamilton Spectator, Vol. XCVI, No. 31 (March 2, 1942), Second Section. Accessed 9 July 2020
  32. ↑ Mayor Wm. Morrison, "WARNING To All Persons in Hamilton!" (1942). Accessed 8 July 2020
  33. ↑ William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Canada and the War; Temperance and a Total War Effort" (December 16, 1942 broadcast). Accessed 9 July 2020
  34. ↑ Bruce Hutchison, "Saint in Politics" The First Ten Years, 1932-1942; Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, pg. 2. Accessed 9 July 2020
  35. ↑ "The Old Town Has Gone" The Whitehorse Star (May 8, 1942), pg. 2. Accessed 9 July 2020
  36. ↑ Letter of Nettie Hodge (August 24, 1942). Accessed 9 July 2020
  37. ↑ British Pathé, "Canada's New Oil Reserves" (Dublin Issue). Accessed 10 May 2020
  38. ↑ "Shevlin-Clarke Co. Ltd. Ends 32 Years of Lumbering Operations in Fort Frances" Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald (April 23, 1942). Accessed 9 July 2020
  39. ↑ "Proclamation" The Canada Gazette, Vol. LXXVI, No. 232, Extra (December 26, 1942). Accessed 7 July 2020
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.