1. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.1 Chapter Thirteen Canada in World War II

2. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.2 Trainee pilots at No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School, Kenyon Field, Lethbridge, August 1940. Glenbow Archives, Calgary Herald, NA-2864-3445.

3. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.3 A convoy near Halifax, 1941. During the war the Royal Canadian Navy played a major role in defending Allied convoys that transported troops and supplies to Britain. National Archives of Canada/DND PA-105344.

4. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.4 Fitting the guns on a 28-ton tank at Montreal Locomotive Works, Montreal, around 1942. Photograph Collection and Library Services Canada/Science and Technology Museum, Image CN 001876.

5. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.5 Women war workers return home after shift change, Edmonton, 1943. National Archives of Canada/PA-116122.

6. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.6 Private Huron Eldon Brant, member of the Tyendinaga Mohawk community, receiving the Military Medal for bravery at Grammichele, Sicily, 1943, from General Bernard Montgomery. One year later he was shot and killed during an attack near Rimini. Captain Frank Royal/National Archives of Canada/PA-130065.

7. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.7 Japanese Canadians being “relocated” to camps in the interior of British Columbia. More than 20 000 Japanese and Japanese Canadians were relocated and their property confiscated and auctioned off after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and throughout the duration of the war. Tak Toyota/National Archives of Canada/C-46350.

8. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.8 A demonstration against conscription in Montreal. The Gazette, National Archives of Canada, PA-107910.

9. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.9 Canadian advances in Italy, indicating the Canadian army’s major battles, 1943–1944. Source: Based on Elizabeth Abbott, ed., Chronicle of Canada (Montreal: Chronicle Publications, 1990), p. 711.

10. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.10 Members of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal Regiment in Falaise, France, just after the Normandy invasion. A Canadian Sherman tank offers the tired infantrymen protection, in the narrow streets of this Norman town, August 1944 National Archives of Canada/PA-115568.

11. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.11 The town of Leeuwarden, during the liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian troops, April 16, 1945. Donald I. Grant/National Archives of Canada/PA-131566.

12. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.12 Young Canadians, operating under extremely stressful conditions, fulfilled Canada’s part in the strategic bomber offensive against Germany. Bomber aircrew suffered the highest wartime casualty rates of all of the branches in Canadian military service. PL-30121/National Defence Imagery Library.

13. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.13 Canadian troop movements in northwestern Europe, 1944-1945. Source: From Canada: Our Century, Our Story: Ontario Edition, Student text by Fielding/Evans. © 2001. Reprinted with permission of Nelson, a division of Thomson Learning: www.thomsonrights.com. Fax 800-730-2215.www.thomsonrights.com

14. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.14 Military Fatalities in World War II, Selected Countries In all, the terrible bloodbath between 1939 and 1945 claimed the lives of nearly 60 million civilians and soldiers. Source: Christopher A. Sharpe, “Military Activity in the Second World War,” Plate 47 of Donald Kerr and Deryck W. Holdsworth, eds., Historical Atlas of Canada, vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).

15. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.15 Of the several routes proposed for a road link from western Canada to Alaska, that of the Alaska Highway was selected in 1942. Source: Based on Kenneth Coates, ed., The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985), p. xix.

16. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.16 After the war an “army” of 40 000 war brides (mainly British) with their 20 000 children, most under the age of three, arrived in Canada. H.B. Jefferson Collection/Nova Scotia Archives and Record Management/N-820.

17. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.17 The family of Private Louis Zarown welcomes him home, at Mewata Stadium in Calgary, in July 1945. Wounded twice, Zarowny served with The Loyal Edmonton Regiment in Italy and Northwestern Europe. Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada/Herald Collection/NA-2864-3448.

18. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.18 Canada’s Minister of External Affairs, Louis St. Laurent and Prime Minister Mackenzie King at the General Assembly of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, May 8, 1945. Library and Archives Canada/C-22720