Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Freedom to Trade?

For Canadians the biggest fact of 1944 was that in their fifth year of war they had still managed to produce more and ship more abroad than ever before. Canada was now second only to the U.S. as an exporting nation.

Russia was using tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain.

More than Enough. For a country...

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