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1940 in Canada

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Events from the year 1940 in Canada.

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Alex Trebek, March 2007

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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

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"The influence of the older generation" - Indian residential school principal sorry his pupils' "good training" neutralized at home<ref>A.E. Caldwell, Letter from Principal Caldwell to Mrs. J.C. Goodfellow (Indian Residential School, Ahousaht, B.C., January 4, 1940). Accessed 6 June 2021</ref>

"Almost terrifying sums of money" - Transport Minister C.D. Howe on War Supply Board's huge task, and power<ref>Canadian Press, "Wheels of Industry Geared Up to War, Howe Tells Canada" The Globe and Mail (January 8, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

Training facilities across Canada will be set up to turn out 35,000 Commonwealth pilots, air gunners and observers annually<ref>Canadian Press, "Air Training Bases In Canada Being Increased To 77" The Winnipeg Tribune, 51st Year, No. 20 (January 23, 1940), pg. 2. Accessed 29 June 2020 (See also Wartime Souvenir of Carberry and its flight training school in Manitoba)</ref>

Infantry training at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition grounds to supply reinforcements for units now in England<ref>George Lawrence, "Toronto School Training Infantrymen in 16 Weeks" The Toronto Daily Star (January 6, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

Limit to "complete equality for women" is on North Atlantic as female reporters tour Canadian destroyer at sea<ref>Marion MacIntosh, Canadian Press, "Women Reporters Conclude Navy Is Strictly for Men" The Hamilton Spectator (January 29, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

CBC speeches by J.W. Dafoe, playwright Robert E. Sherwood, novelist James Hilton and columnist Dorothy Thompson on wartime "causes and issues"<ref>Let's Face the Facts; Four Addresses from a Series of Radio Broadcasts (1940). Accessed 17 May 2022</ref>

Controversy erupts in Ontario Liberal Party over Premier Hepburn's "personal grudge" censure of King war policy<ref>"Hepburn Repudiated by Toronto Liberals (who) Send Mr. King Wire" The Toronto Daily Star (January 19, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

"My own bomb came looking for me, but I was not at home" - Canadian diplomat survives Blitz (just barely) in London<ref>Charles Ritchie, "Bombers' Moon" Radio Guide, Volume 4, Number 11 (November 1984), pgs. 37-9. Accessed 18 November 2020</ref>

King George walks five miles and stops to chat 50 times as he inspects Canadian First Division in England<ref>Canadian Press, "Canadians Hail The King At Five-Hour Inspection" and "The King Greets Canadian V.C.'s" The Globe and Mail (January 25, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

First loan drive (for 12-year bonds at 3.25% interest) brings in more than $136 million from cities, towns and hamlets<ref>Canadian Press, "Bank of Canada Is Deluged with Subscription Demands in $5,000 Amounts and Less" The Hamilton Spectator (January 16, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

Nazi-linked German nationals and suspect German-Canadians to be interned as possibly dangerous to Canada<ref>"R.C.M.P. Nipped Nazi Plots to Sabotage Industry Here" The Toronto Daily Star (January 27, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

"No place for excitement in the hearts of people" regarding federal election issues, but deep concern over world affairs in Ottawa<ref>Spectator, "The Ottawa Spotlight; (Weekly Review of National Affairs)" The Strathmore (Alberta) Standard, Vol. XXXI, No. 20 (March 21, 1940), pg. 1. Accessed 28 June 2020</ref>

Hours before its capitulation to Germans, Canadian, British and U.S. governments pledge help to imperilled France<ref>Telegrams of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat to State Department (June 14 and 15, 1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President: The President's Secretary's File (PSF), 1933-1945, Series 1: Safe File, Box 2, Canada, (PDF pgs 2-4). Accessed 25 June 2020 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/?p=collections/findingaid&id=502 (scroll down to Series 1, Box 2, Canada)</ref>

Following fall of France, Quebec editorials call on English and French Canadian men to heed call to Canada's defence<ref>"Compulsory Defence Service"; and The French Press: "We Must Defend Canada," Le Canada (Montreal), and "Canada Remains Engaged," Le Soleil (Quebec City), The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLXIX, No. 147 (June 19, 1940), pg. 8. Accessed 26 June 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19400619&printsec=frontpage&hl=en (turn to pg. 8)</ref>

Every Canadian resident (including aliens) 16 or over must comply with National Registration process and carry registration certificate at all times<ref>Sections 4 and 21, National Registration Regulations 1940 (1940). Accessed 17 May 2022</ref>

Importance of British subject status and "race" (e.g., English, Scottish, French, Italian) in National Registration process<ref>"Statement re British Nationality" (pgs. 7-8) and "Question 8, Racial Origin" (pg. 11), National Registration Regulations, 1940; Instructions(....) (1940), PDF frame 4. Accessed 17 May 2022</ref>

Montreal mayor interned as "prejudicial to the public safety" after he "blasted" wartime compulsory training order<ref>Lawrence W. Conroy, "Houde Arrested, Taken to Internment Camp" The (Montreal) Gazette, Vol. CLXIX, No. 188 (August 6, 1940), pgs. 1, 5. Accessed 29 June 2020</ref>

Editorials point out importance of U.S.A. to Allies' struggle, and its people's recognition of that<ref>"Britain Carries On," and French Press: "American Reaction" (Le Nouvelliste, Three Rivers), Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record (June 17, 1940), pg. 4. Accessed 26 June 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3001376 (turn to pg. 4)</ref>

Canada shifting main war partnership from Britain to U.S.A.; public wants greater war effort (except overseas conscription)<ref>Telegram of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat to State Department (June 23, 1940), "The British Commonwealth of Nations; United Kingdom; Response of the United States to Appeals for Greater Assistance to the British War Effort," Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940; Volume III (1958), pgs. 13-14. Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

U.S. ambassador reports Canadian public demanding "some form of joint defence understanding with the United States"<ref>Letter of Minister Jay Pierrepont Moffat (August 14, 1940), "Canada; Establishment of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, The United States and Canada," Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1940; Volume III (1958), pgs. 144-5. Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

U.S.A. and Canada set up Permanent Joint Board on Defence to protect North America<ref>"White House Statement on Establishment of Joint Board on Defense of Canada and the United States. August 18, 1940" The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1940 Volume, pg. 331. Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

Leslie Gilbert Illingworth political cartoon of U.S.-Canada defence pact has Wild West setting<ref>"Yeah! Sure is a purty piece of artillery" (August 28, 1940). Accessed 25 June 2020</ref>

Supervisor of German sanitorium and Württemberg bishop object to unlawful killing of mental patients and epileptics<ref>Letters (in translation) of L. Schlaich (Stettin, September 6, 1940) and Bishop Wurm of Wuerttemberg Evangelical Provincial Church (July 19, 1940 and after), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1216-17, 1218-24 (PDF pgs. 1241-2, 1243-9). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)</ref>

"Such a sudden and swift offensive" - Ukrainian-Canadian leftists are arrested in wide police sweep in Winnipeg<ref>Peter Krawchuk, "3. Unforgettable July 6" Interned without Cause. Accessed 26 June 2020</ref>

With government "forcing conscription of unemployed and needy youth," Canadian Youth Congress wants training and jobs<ref>Canadian Youth Congress, "Youth Wants Jobs, Not Conscription" (1940). Accessed 26 June 2020 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/canadian-youth-congress-leaflet-6-8-july-1940 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000666.jpg http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/sites/default/files/pw20c_images/00000666-2.jpg</ref>

Liberal Party federal election leaflet identifies CCF (and Nazis) as socialist<ref>North Battleford [Saskatchewan] Liberal Association, "C.C.F. Stands for Socialism" Accessed 26 June 2020</ref>

German Jewish refugee Frederick Mendel turns Saskatoon meatpacking plant into thriving business<ref>Winnipeg Free Press, "Refugee" Industries in Canada, pgs. 19-21. Accessed 26 June 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/6482/23.html (Note: Frederick Mendel's name is misspelled)</ref>

Anarchist Emma Goldman feels "gagged and paralyzed" in wartime Canada as she collects money for refugees<ref>Letter of Emma Goldman (February 8, 1940). Accessed 26 June 2020 https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/PrimarySources/scanneddocuments.html (scroll down to letter34)</ref>

Black man becomes CPR sleeping car porter after being repeatedly rejected as machinist and told to shine shoes (Note: "nigger" used)<ref>Stanley Grizzle interview of Leonard O. Johnston (March 11, 1988), "Gaskin, Leo, W.C. Wright and L.O. Johnston - Interviews" second transcription, pgs. 8, 11, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 19 February 2023</ref>

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