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Events from the year 1939 in Canada.
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With crisis in Europe, MP suggests Canada follow up on Statute of Westminster by declaring neutrality and following America-oriented defence policy[6]
Labour Day finds fighters and nurses enlisting for overseas service and Red Cross rushing its wartime planning[7]
Editorial says Canada and Commonwealth are "one and indivisible, [and] pledged unwaveringly to the support of the Mother Country"[8]
Before declaring war, PM King asks Commons for "authority for effective cooperation by Canada at the side of Britain"[9]
MP J.S. Woodsworth interrogates "cooperation," unspoken government policy, and whether Canada is already in war[10]
"We cannot be at peace while the head of this Empire is at war" - Sen. Arthur Meighen insists Canada enter European conflict[11]
Canada's declaration of war against German Reich[12]
Editorial says PM King, in choosing home defence over expeditionary force, is not giving "definite leadership"[13]
Regimen for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry's transport ship includes lectures, training and organized games[14]
Enlisted man's 1939 surprises: Poland's fall weeks after invasion, and Christmas invitation given on his first day in England[15]
Editorial says "equality of sacrifice," essential to war effort, must include fairness in agricultural costs, prices and margins[16]
British meals depend on Canada for breakfast porridge and (with other wheat exporters) bread, and cheese, tinned soup, and suet in pudding at tea[17]
MP A.A. Heaps advocates joining other countries in welcoming refugees from persecution[18]
Mentioning uranium ore in Canada and German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Einstein urges President Roosevelt to back atomic energy research[19]
"Only a mile from home" - Eleven-year-old student Andrew Gordon from Gordon's reserve residential school dies of exposure walking home[20]
Supreme Court finds tavern, in absence of specific law, has "freedom of commerce" to not serve Black man[21]
Law professor comments on Quebec's Padlock Law allowing police to seal premises and arrest occupants deemed "communistic"[22]
Private intelligence agency offers to spy on corporation's workers to detect "plots, plans and unrest"[23]
Mao's appreciation of Norman Bethune - "We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him"[24]
Poster: "Time Is Life" depicts Bethune riding a galloping horse[25]
King George VI - "It is my earnest hope that my present visit may give my Canadian people a deeper conception of their unity as a nation."[26]
Woman records her excitement over 1939 royal tour of George VI and Elizabeth in her diary[27]
Film of royal tour's stops in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver and Victoria[28]
CBC chairman tells House committee move into television will not come soon because of its current technical and financial limitations[29]
Course in interior decoration includes hands-on stitching, glazing, block-printing, weaving, lettering, etc., etc.[30]
Photo: children work on their art projects in Arthur Lismer's children's art classes in Toronto[31]
Calling "more friendly relations" essential to world progress, bank's advertisement pledges friendship in its service[32]
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