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THE New Canada

Series

Series Name
The March of Time 8th Year

Issue

Issue No.
10
Date Released
5 Apr 1943
Length of issue (in feet)
1627
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1THE New Canada

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
The March of Time synopsis: In the latest March of Time release ... the accent is on peace, for it is peace that this time the Allies are determined to win. The film begins by recalling that it was from Canada, three years ago, that the greatest number of volunteers thronged to the aid of an almost defenceless Britain. Today, this same expeditionary force, a quarter of a million strong, is no longer preparing to repel an invasion but to launch one.

The March of Time describes the homeland of these men of Canada, the oldest and greatest dominion in the British Commonwealth, with its millions of square miles of farmland and forest, and the vast potential war-power of its ore-laden plains. The wealth of its lumber, minerals and fisheries; its huge cattle-raising and wheat-growing areas are indicated among the assets of this rich and powerful ally. In regard to Canada’s war effort, apart from her great undertaking in arming and equipping three quarters of a million men, the March of Time tells of the tremendous strides she has made in building up from a bare skeleton organisation an important naval force which today provides armed escorts for a third of the convoys sailing from North America. Out of a few small pre-war boat yards has grown a huge Canadian shipbuilding industry which in the fourth year of the war is turning out as many cargo vessels as is this country, long the leader among shipbuilding nations.

Under the Commonwealth Air Training Scheme Canada has undertaken to train the majority of the fliers needed for the ever increasing air force of the entire British Commonwealth. From Canada’s flying and ground schools have come thousands upon thousands of pilots and gunners, navigators, technicians and aircraftsmen who are fighting for the United Nations on every battlefront. Canada’s tremendous contribution to the Allied war effort during the past four years in men, food and munitions, is a matter of history. Canada’s continued and unremitting effort, as long as it shall be needed, is a matter of certainty. But Canada, like the rest of the United Nations has learnt from bitter experience that winning a peace. That is why far-sighted Canadians are looking ahead to the end of the war - anticipating the post-war problems and questions which they know can be solved only by continuing and enlarging the great and workable wartime partnership of the Allied Nations.
Researcher Comments
This story was included in Vol.9 No.7 of the US edition.
Keywords
Foreign relations; Industry and manufacture; War and conflict
Written sources
The March of Time Promotional Material   Lobby Card, Used for synopsis
Credits:
Production Co.
Time Inc.

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