View from a distance of the Four Freedoms Tableau in Kiwanis Park, Sunday, May [1], 1943. This view from overhead shows crowd in foreground, with 25th Street Bridge and houses across the river
Victory bond tableau with signs reading: "Four freedoms : Freedom to worship, Freedom from fear, Freedom of speech, Freedom from want". Held in Kiwanis Park, Sunday, May [1], 1943
Series of softball teams. B 1090 shows men wearing uniforms of RCAF SFTS (Service Flying Training School) an air training program in Saskatoon during World War II. B1092: 3 show officers playing in uniform; B1094: Wiseton baseball team; B 1095-6:...
WWII recruitment centre in the parking lot beside Birk's on the 100 block of 3rd Avenue South, just before the office was moved. A billboard in the background reads "Army Recruiting Office". The woman on the steps in front of the building is the...
Billboard recruiting for the Armed Forces during World War II. Located on west side of Avenue A North approximately opposite 23rd intersection. Clover Meat Market on corner. Traffic and pedestrians in foreground
HMCS SASKATOON, a World War II Corvette named after this city and largely funded by Saskatoon citizens. The vessel is shown in background of a naval scene documenting the surrender on May 10, 1945 of the German U-boat U889. It occurred 200 miles...
•patriotism
•Second World War
•home front
•Saskatoon
Abstract
In the last decade historians have focused greater attention on the Canadian home front during the Second World War. This increased scrutiny has led to studies of not only the war’s impact on the nation at large, but also on specific...
Victory Bond display placed out in the street and illuminated. It features a thermometer - like chart indicating financial milestone (from 100,000 to 23,000) with mottoes: "speed the Victory" and "buy the new Victory bonds"
Vertical format view of a booth promoting the sale of war savings stamps under the auspices of the National War Finance Committee. Signs say "lend-save-for victory"; "Keep them smiling." (B 1304 gives side view with more slogans.) Booth may be...
Man wearing placard promoting sales of war savings stamps serves tea to ladies enjoying lunch. Placard says "Have you bought war savings stamps to-day?"
Family at military base, barracks in background, probably at Dundurn Army Camp. Stout father (?) wears under-sized uniform, pith helmet and Hitler-style moustache. Three blond sons (?) dressed almost identically
Group of unidentified air force personnel posing for the camera in a room with unfinished wooden walls (possibly a hangar). They could be from one of two flight schools located in Saskatoon during World War II under the British Commonwealth Air...
