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More primary sources of editorial cartoons from WWII...from the Begbie Canadian History Contest.

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Morris Norman collection

Art, photographic and philatelic material

You Never Know Who's Listening Careless Talk Helps the Enemy

Illustration by Kerr (ca 1942-1945) for the Canadian Fishing Company Ltd., Gold Seal Salmon.

Source: LAC

The signature Kerr with a dot beneath lends itself to Illingworth Kerr, a noted rising artist in Vancouver at that time. He did commercial illustration work during the War, mostly for Boeing Vancouver, according to his book “Paint and Circumstance”.

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More guns found underground...

https://vancouversun.com/news/historically-significant-find-more-military-artifacts-found-during-excavation-of-pne-land

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Via ebay, the 1918 Siberian Expeditionary Force.

Caption:

C.A.S.C. [Canadian Army Service Corps] C.E.F. [Canadian Expeditionary Force]

en route to Siberia

New Westminster B.C.

Dec 9th 1918|

Photo by S. [Stuart] Thomson

Vancouver B.C.'

One hundred thirty-four soldiers in front of a long building. Secondary doors flank the main doors with signs above, 'Concert Room' and 'Recreation Room.' The commanding officer is about 55-60 years old, wearing a white tie, black gloves and tall black boots, with a cane. Two other soldiers hold canes, and another apparent officer with black gloves. Sixteen soldiers are seated (the bugler on the far right), the rest are standing. On the rear of the photograph, written in pencil, 'R.A. Grochy (underlined) / mo(2-3)?.

17.0 cm x 40.8 cm (6 5/8" x 16"). A chipped piece to the lower left border, two small creases and a glossy strip of film adhering to top right corner, vertical scratch near the caption, round indentation in lower right foreground seen at an angle. Good.

From McMaster University:

Authorized on 12 August 1918, the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force was composed of 4,000 soldiers that were sent to Russia to combat the Bolshevik menace. The soldiers were selected from the headquarters staff, “B” Squadron RNWMP, 85th Battery CFA, 16th Field Company CE, 6th Signal Company, 259th and 260th Infantry Battalions, 20th Machine Gun Company, No. 1 Company Divisional Train, No. 16 Field Ambulance, No. 11 Stationary Hospital, and No. 9 Ordnance Detachment. The Commander was Major-General J.H. Elmsley. Most of the soldiers were stationed in Vladivostock. They returned home to Canada in the summer of 1919 without engaging in any hostilities.

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WARTIME JAMS, JELLIES AND PICKLES

CONSUMER SECTION

DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Revised, September 1944

Original 1943 edition is here:

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BCER Wartime Canning

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This post veers beyond Vancouver for a parallel story from the East Coast. In Vancouver, a young Jack Shadbolt painted murals inside the United Services Centre depicting wartime in Vancouver...and as this Legion Magazine article describes, artist Richard Chambers did a very similar series for the Halifax Herald and Evening Mail newspaper in Halifax. You'd almost think he came to Vancouver before publishing the booklet! MAYBE HE DID!

I have extracted all of Chambers’ illustrations in the second image, I am not actually showing Shabolts’ mural here in this post, just to clarify this post further. I was simply pointing out that when all of the images are shown in a panoramic manner, it really does resemble a mural and very much gives the same impression of Shabolts’ overall composition.

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Backup copy:

Canada’s War in the Air by Leslie Roberts, third edition, published July 1943 by Alvah M. Beatty, Montreal has been digitized and added to archive.org, as a tribute to the #rcaf 100th anniversary. The book is a remarkable reference of #wwii #aviation #history. With Archive.org down at the moment, I put a PDF copy here on Google Drive for the time being.

UPDATE! It looks like archive.org is back online again! Yay!

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The “Coal Harbour Shovel”, not Coal Harbour Vancouver, but RCAF Station Coal Harbour, a short trek SW from Port Hardy, Vancouver Island.

The newsletter is mentioned here:

https://www.101nisquadron.org/wwii-rcaf-bases/rcaf-coal-harbour/

In January 1942, a group of like-minded Airmen decided that the personalities at the Coal Harbour Station deserved to be immortalized. Some of the men developed the format for the Station newspaper and christened it the ‘Coal Harbour Shovel’ – perhaps a reference to “digging in and getting the job done”, which symbolized life on the Station, or was it an interesting twist on “digging for dirt” to keep the publication lively? The newspaper “was an outlet for a rare sense of humour that was evident across the ranks” and “was partially responsible for maintaining high morale on the Station”. Also in January 1942, P/0 D.E. Hornell (j.7594) was posted to Coal Harbour. He was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously in 1944 for his outstanding acts of bravery in carrying out an attack on a U-boat in the North Atlantic and which cost him his life.

There's also a museum of sorts at the site currently, a quirky collection of island technologies, definitely an off the beaten path destination worthy of further investigation. See also: https://vancouverislandbucketlist.com/experiences/coal-harbour-museum

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Men of Valor poster series

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Over the past few years, the Seaforth Armoury has gone through extensive upgrades to both their building and their museum. The museum continues to take in relevant artifacts, each one adding to the depth of the collection.

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Sorry, SUGAR IS SCARCE

Please use it Sparingly

OUR RATION IS REDUCED. Repost via FB

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More pages from Roundel & Sentinel

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BC’s marine rescue service, RCAF Roundel magazine, October 1958.

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Canadians rescue POWs

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BCATP in March 1941 Air Force Review