Vintage War Posters (Version 4)

Recruitment posters were widely used during the First World War to encourage men to join the military effort. As the war progressed, the posters took a more forceful turn. This poster called out those passively standing in the crowds, challenging them to have courage and enlist.

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Vintage War Posters (Version 3)

Canada was an important supplier of food to Allied forces during the First World War. The Canada Food Board was created in 1918 to increase exports to Britain for troops overseas. This poster, produced by the Canada Food Board, discourages hoarding of food and points out punishments of fines and/or jail for those caught stockpiling.

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Vintage War Posters (Version 2)

Recruitment posters were widely used during the Second World War to encourage citizens to join the war effort. Women enlisting in the forces played an important role in the Second World War, as demonstrated by this RCAF poster seeking male and female recruits.

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Vintage War Posters (Version 1)

This poster shamed fathers who remained at home during the First World War into enlisting so they might have stories to tell their children after the war’s end.

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Thanks Revera!

Revera Inc., one of The Royal Canadian Legion’s (RCL’s) partners in the Member Benefits Package presented RCL Dominion Command a cheque in the amount of $21,576 on Monday, February 12, 2017. The cheque is the result of fundraising activities in 2017.

Statues in changing times

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

‘Revisionism’ can seem like a bad word. It can conjure up images of Stalinist-style rewriting of history or of societal pandering to the whims of political correctness.

Historical revisionism has been at the forefront of public discourse since city councils and state legislatures south of the border began voting to remove Confederate statues from public spaces two years ago. In Halifax, work crews recently removed an 86-year-old statue of the city’s founder, Edward Cornwallis, from a public park after protests over the fact that as Nova Scotia governor he had offered a bounty for Mi’kmaq fighters taken prisoner, or their scalps in 1749.

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February 28, 1991

Operation Desert Storm, the combat phase of the Persian Gulf War, ends.

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