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1943 in Canada

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Events from the year 1943 in Canada.

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Nancy Greene

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Joe Handley

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David Peterson in 2005

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Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders<ref>Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 127, November 16, 1944), pgs. 1-4. Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

Film: Canadian and U.S. troops train for Italian invasion<ref>British Pathé, "How They Prepared" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020</ref>

Film: Canadian soldiers and nurses embark for Italian invasion<ref>British Pathé, "Canadians Sail To Mediterranean" (1943). Accessed 27 July 2020</ref>

Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"<ref>John Collins, "The Boys From Syracuse" The (Montreal) Gazette (1943). Accessed 17 July 2020</ref>

Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")<ref>Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Sicily, July–August, 1943" (Report No. 135, May 4, 1945), pgs. 2-3. Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire<ref>Historical Section (G.S.), Department of National Defence, "Canadian Operations in Italy, October–November, 1943" (Report No. 161, October 16, 1946), pgs. 22-3. Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"<ref>Armed Forces Operations Staff, "Material for the Lecture by the Chief of Armed Forces Operations Staff[...]; Position in Italy" (translation; November 2, 1943), Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Volume VII (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 948-9 (PDF pgs. 953-4). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Volume 7)</ref>

Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms<ref>Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, "Canadian Operations in Italy, September–December, 1943: Preliminary Report" (Report No. 129, November 25, 1944), pgs. 12-14. Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

Film: Canadian troops fighting in Ortona<ref>British Pathé, "Canadians Fight Germans Through Streets of Italy" (1944). Accessed 27 July 2020</ref>

Germans leave Ortona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"<ref>Douglas Amaron, "Only German Dead Left In Shambles of Ortona" The Globe and Mail (December 31, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020</ref>

Guide for battlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight<ref>Notes for Instructors in Battle First Aid (1943). (See also First Aid in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1942) Accessed 17 May 2022</ref>

Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe<ref>Montague Black (artist), "R.C.A.F. and R.A.F. fighter squadrons...." Star Weekly (March 6, 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska<ref>United States Navy, "Landing to find the little men not there" (August 15, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"<ref>"Four Years of World War" (translation), Israelitisches Wochenblatt (August 27, 1943), in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression; Supplement A (Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946), pgs. 1234-5 (PDF pgs. 1259-60). Accessed 5 August 2020 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_Nazi-conspiracy.html (click Supplement A)</ref>

At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis<ref>William Lyon Mackenzie King, "Four Years of War" (September 10, 1943). Accessed 15 July 2020</ref>

National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta<ref>Dominion of Canada; National Registration Regulations, 1940; Registration Certificate (dated June 29, 1943). Accessed 17 July 2020</ref>

"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter<ref>Marie I. Stewart, "Quebec Pacifists," The Canadian C.O., Vol. 1, No. 6 (August 1943), pg. 6. Accessed 17 July 2020 https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/milton-good-library/newsletters-alternative-service (scroll down to The Canadian C.O.; August, 1943)</ref>

Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand<ref>"Minutes of Evidence" (March 31, 1943), Proceedings of the [Senate] Special Committee on Economic Re-Establishment and Social Security, pgs. 10-11. Accessed 6 October 2020</ref>

U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development<ref>"Article of Agreement Governing Collaboration Between the Authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the Matter of Tube Alloys" (August 19, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"<ref>United States Department of State, "The Chargé in Canada (Clark) to the Secretary of State" Foreign Relations of the United States; Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 1104-5. Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large<ref>The University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota, "The Midcontinent and the Peace; The Interests of Western Canada and Central Northwest United States in the Peace Settlements" (1943). Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization<ref>United States Department of State, "Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)" Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1943; General, pgs. 881-3. Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa<ref>Letter of Lester Pearson (March 24, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners<ref>"Fishing Fleet Becomes Alive" Granada Pioneer (Amache, Colorado, March 17, 1943), pg. 4. Accessed 15 February 2020 (See photo "Impounded Japanese Canadian vessels requisitioned for military use readied for shipment")</ref>

"So reactionary to Liberal principles" – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike<ref>Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1943 (January 14), pgs. 32-4. Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"<ref>John Collins, "How It's Spelled in Wartime" The (Montreal) Gazette (August 4, 1943). Accessed 17 February 2020</ref>

Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining<ref>"A Labor Policy for Victory; Submission presented by Tim Buck on behalf of The Dominion Communist-Labor Total War Committee to The National War Labor Board Inquiry Into Labor Relations; May 28th, 1943." Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs, British Columbia MLA raises funds for halfway house for women discharged from mental institutions<ref>"'Family Care' Sought For Mental Patients" Vancouver Sun (August 11, 1943), pg. 9. Accessed 14 August 2022</ref>

As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens<ref>Letter to Margaret Konantz (January 22, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality<ref>Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, "A Tour with a Travelling Officer" The Bulletin, No. 41 (March 1943), pg. 1. Accessed 7 August 2020</ref>

"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" – Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony<ref>Letter of Dmitri Shostakovich (June 23, 1943). Accessed 16 July 2020</ref>

Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show<ref>"Windsor Airman Meets 'Rochester'" Windsor Star (February 17, 1943). Accessed 20 March 2021</ref>

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