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Events from the year 1942 in Canada.
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]
Events from the year 1887 in Canada.
Events from the year 1898 in Canada.
Events from the year 1907 in Canada.
Events from the year 1914 in Canada.
Events from the year 1918 in Canada.
Events from the year 1932 in Canada.
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Events from the year 1950 in Canada.
Events from the year 1943 in Canada.
Events from the year 1919 in Canada.
Events from the year 1933 in Canada.
Events from the year 1944 in Canada.
Events from the year 1941 in Canada.
Events from the year 1947 in Canada.
Events from the year 1946 in Canada.
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